Workforce Strategies for Tobacco Treatment: The Role of Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists

This webinar is hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the role of community health workers and peer support specialists in advancing tobacco cessation and reducing cancer-related imbalances.
• Identify evidence-based and promising workforce models that integrate peers and community health workers into tobacco treatment initiatives.
• Examine training, supervision, and support structures that promote effective and sustainable peer and community health worker engagement.
• Explore policy, systems, and environmental strategies that enable workforce integration across behavioral health, public health, and community settings.