From Data to Community Action- The Colorado Chew Tobacco Collaborative Initiative (CCTCI)

This presentation by the Colorado Chew Tobacco Collaborative Initiative (CCTCI), University of Colorado Denver Cancer Center, will demonstrate how CCTCI engages communities in a Community-Based Participatory Research process to identify local disparities and support community designed interventions. It will also illustrate the Socio-Ecological Model in moving from data collection into community action. The presentation will encompass: 1) Use of a CBPR model; 2) Development of data collection tools, processes and analysis designs; 3) Incorporation of the Socio-Ecological model moving communities from data collection into action planning; 4) Resources and tools to present data findings to local decision makers for policy change initiatives; and 4) Collaboration between CCTCI program and other statewide tobacco control partners. CCTCI has developed two tool kits, the CCTCI Data Collection Toolkit, and the CCTCI Community Action Planning Toolkit and each have been in use for over two years. Twenty-four diverse counties in Colorado have participated in the data collection process. Data analysis has resulted in five main aggregate research themes, which have been applied to the Socio-Ecological model. Ten counties are actively in the community action phase, working to achieve local policy change limiting the exposure and presence to tobacco in their communities.