Professional Education and Resources
We hope these resources are helpful:
If you have questions about the Lung Mind Alliance, contact Chelsey Skogen at 651-268-7612 or Chelsey.Skogen@Lung.org
Learning About Healthy Living: Tobacco and You
Group Treatment Manual
Learning About Healthy Living (LAHL) is designed to be used in a group setting. It provides a format to address commercial tobacco with people who have mental illness or other substance use challenges, who are ready to make a change or who are simply contemplating a change in the future.
LAHL is a free educational and motivational group curriculum with 2 separate tracks based on readiness. The treatment can be implemented in clinical and nonclinical settings. It includes a facilitator guide, participant worksheets, medication education handouts, an assessment tool that includes vaping, and sample treatment plans.
Download the free Learning About Healthy Living curriculum.
Lungs and Minds at Work Animated Short
Lungs and Minds at Work is a resource to use in reaching out to mental health and substance use treatment providers. The video encourages decision makers to feel empowered and confident to move forward in improving the health and well-being of clients and staff by integrating tobacco treatment and implementing tobacco-free grounds policies.
Lungs and Minds at Work Animated Short User Guide for Minnesota’s Local Public Health Professionals
Learn more about how to use the Lungs and Minds at Work animated short in your community.
Changing social norms about commercial tobacco treatment and tobacco-free grounds policies
Designed for Minnesota's mental health and substance use disorder professionals, these downloadable documents help build understanding about myths and facts about helping clients get healthy by offering tobacco treatment, providing healthy facilities by adopting tobacco-free grounds policies, and how this is a path to fulfilling your organization's mission.
Download PDFs:
Tips From The Field Guide
Our newest resource, How to Address Tobacco Use in Minnesota's Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services: TIPS FROM THE FIELD, was written by Minnesota mental health and substance use disorder professionals. This guide provides easy-to-follow information and resources to help others incorporate tobacco treatment and support services.
Billing Resources
A Toolkit to Address Tobacco Use in Behavioral Health Settings: A Guide for Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Professionals
This toolkit was developed for a broad continuum of mental health and substance use treatment professionals in an initial stage of considering how their organization can address tobacco. It contains information and step-by-step instructions, including:
- Low burden means of assessing readiness to quit
- Tobacco treatment
- Strategies for implementing policy
- Strategies to increase tobacco treatments opportunities and success
- Referral to community resources
American Lung Association Freedom from Smoking
The American Lung Association has been helping people quit smoking for over 35 years through Freedom From Smoking®. Ranked as one of the most effective programs in the country, Freedom From Smoking has helped hundreds of thousands individuals quit smoking for good and is now available in a variety of formats.
Learn more about Freedom From Smoking.
If you have questions about the Lung Mind Alliance, contact contact Chelsey Skogen at 651-268-7612 or Chelsey.Skogen@Lung.org
Page last updated: November 20, 2024
