Learning Objectives: Describe a process for using community-based wisdom to tailor tobacco interventions for specific populations.
Abstract: There is very little information about what, if any, tailoring needs to happen to current tobacco interventions to make them culturally appropriate for specific subpopulations. Often organizations serving these groups modify the existing interventions on an ad-hoc basis, using professional wisdom to decide where/how to add community-specific information.
The LGBT Incubation Project was designed to provide a facilitated platform to mix community-based wisdom and professional tobacco knowledge – with the goal of creating promising new anti-tobacco interventions wholly tailored towards a specific subpopulation. LGBT medical centers in LA, Chicago, and Boston each convened a workgroup of community leaders, key influencers, and people with experience in other aspects of community-specific behavior change efforts (i.e. political mobilization). Participants were pre-trained with tobacco information and agency-specific readiness information. The groups were staffed with professional tobacco researchers, and closely facilitated. At the end of each workgroup, a series of ideas were recommended about how to create a promising new tobacco intervention. Professionals then guided these ideas into fully developed pilot projects, and are now working to get them funded for 2003.
Audience members will be presented information about this project, the outcomes, and the lessons learned. All participants will be engaged in a discussion about the potential of using an approach like this to tailor interventions in other subpopulation-specific settings.
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