Current

Grant Administration

Audience

FY27-29 Training & Technical Assistance Providers

Our North Star: Advance health and racial equity for a stronger Colorado

Capacity Building Activities

Please contact the lead TA provider listed below for each activity. The lead will connect you with additional TA providers as needed:

1. Educate your community about the importance of policies that influence tobacco use and reduce health disparities.

TA Lead: Policy and System Change Network, Colorado School of Public Health, Jenna Chand and Eric Brodell.

2. Promote tobacco treatment and help people find culturally relevant cessation treatment options.

TA Lead: Behavioral Health and Wellness Program, Jim Pavlik.

3. Engage with your community and build partnerships that advance health equity.

TA Lead: Colorado School of Public Health Community Engagement TA team (Chris Jones).

4. Encourage, promote, and advocate for participation in the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey (HKCS).

TA Lead: Your STEPP Project Officer, who can connect you to the University Team.

5. Build and maintain internal team tobacco control expertise and deepen an understanding of the root causes of racial and health inequities.

TA Lead: New Health Equity & Social Justice TA provider to be announced, with Policy and System Change Network, Colorado School of Public Health: Eric Brodell.

6. Comply with all grant administration duties, including progress reporting, participation in STEPP calls, and implementation of the evaluation plan.

TA Lead: Your STEPP Project officer, with CEPEG for QPR and evaluation TA.

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Community Engagement

Learn more and see examples of how the Community Engagement TA Team can support you.

Chris Jones, Workforce Development Manager
Colorado School of Public Health
christopher.2.jones@cuanschutz.edu

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Health Equity & Social Justice

Learn more and see examples of how the Health Equity TA Team can support you.

TBD: New TA provider to be annouced

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Goal 1: Keep Youth and Young Adults Tobacco-Free

Learn more and see examples of how the PSCN Policy TA Team can support you

Youth Access

Point of Sale

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Goal 2: Protect People and the Environment

Learn more and see examples of how the Policy TA Team can support you

Smoke-Free Municipal Policy

Jenna Chand, MPH
Colorado School of Public Health
303.724.1257 – jenna.chand@cuanschutz.edu

Eric Brodell, MPH
Colorado School of Public Health
303.724.8807 – eric.brodell@cuanschutz.edu

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Tobacco Retail Access Colorado (TRAC)

Laura Thompson, Health Workforce Analyst & Chronic Disease GIS Specialist
STEPP, Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment
laura.thompson@state.co.us

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Tobacco Free Schools

Learn more and see examples of how the Tobacco-Free Schools TA Team can support you.

Dawn Post-Supervisor, STEPP, and Facilitation
Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion and Education
dawnp@rmc.org

Kimber Cook, MPH, Tobacco Program Manager
Action for Healthy Kids | RMC Health
kcook@actionforhealthykids.org

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Youth Engagement – UpRISE

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Heather Kennedy, MPH, PhD
Colorado School of Public Health
heather.kennedy@cuanschutz.edu

Allyson Howe, MSW, Youth Programs Sr. Specialist
Colorado School of Public Health
allyson.howe@cuanschutz.edu

Noah Jansen, Youth Engagement Specialist
Colorado School of Public Health
noah.jansen@cuanschutz.edu

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Smoke-free, Multi-unit Housing – Denver Dept of Public Health & Environment

Learn more and see examples of how the DDPHE Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing TA Team can support you.
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Peggy Sarcomo
Denver Department of Public Health & Environment
720.865.4852 – Peggy.Sarcomo2@denvergov.org

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Goal 3: Expand Support for People Quitting Tobacco

Cessation, Tobacco Treatment & Health Systems Change – BHWP

Learn more and see examples of how the Cessation and Health Systems Change TA Team can support you.

Jim Pavlik, MA, CTTS, Sr. Program & Policy Analyst
Behavioral Health and Wellness Program
303.724.8007 – jim.pavlik@cuanschutz.edu

Eleni Romano (Leni), PhD, ABPP, Assistant Professor
Behavioral Health and Wellness Program
303.724.0621 – eleni.romano@cuanschutz.edu

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Strong Start

Dr. Tessa Crume
University of Colorado Cancer Center
303.724.4452 – tessa.crume@cuanschutz.edu

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Legal TA

*For legal technical assistance, please connect first with either Jenna Metzinger or Eric Brodell with the Colorado School of Public Health. Their contact information is listed above for Goal 1 & 2.

Tracy Doyle (photo coming soon), Legal Technical Assistance Coordinator
University of Colorado Cancer Center
303.506.9431– tracy.doyle@cuanschutz.edu