Purpose: To prepare facilitators to offer patient-centered and community-based educational opportunities and support to persons with chronic lung disease (such as COPD, asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, and other chronic lung diseases) and their families, friends, and support persons.
Target Audience: Community member or leader, health professional or health educator who likes working with adults
Course Access: Please email the American Lung Association at BetterBreathersClub@lung.org to request an enrollment key.
Breathe Well, Live Well® Facilitator Training is a one-hour interactive online learning module designed to prepare asthma educators in the community to deliver asthma self-management education to adults and families. This course is ideal for healthcare practitioners, Certified Asthma Educators (AE-C), Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and Community Health Workers wanting to improve asthma control and the quality of life of people living with asthma.
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Purpose: This free three-module certification training prepares adults to implement INDEPTH as an alternative to suspension or citation program for students ages 14-19 for violation of school or community tobacco use policies.
Target Audience: Educators, school officials and youth-serving community organizations
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Purpose: The purpose of the Lung Cancer Support Group is to improve the quality of life and functional status for support group members by providing education and emotional connection to reduce the health, economic and social burden of lung cancer. Through the course, learners will be equipped with the necessary tools to plan, conduct and evaluate a lung cancer support group.
Target Audience: This course is for caring healthcare professionals or individuals within the healthcare field: physicians, nurses or other staff members, licensed clinical mental health professionals, or health educators with interest or experience working in lung health.
Course Access: Please email lungcancersupportgroups@lung.org to request an enrollment key.
The N-O-T (Not On Tobacco®) Youth Cessation Facilitator Training is a 6-hour course designed to prepare school and community organizations to implement the N-O-T youth tobacco cessation program. This training also includes the INDEPTH (intervention) training and certification.
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Purpose: This free 25-minute online course includes resources and support for recruiting participants for Freedom From Smoking group clinics. It is a supplemental enhancement for the active Freedom From Smoking facilitators nationwide to learn more.
Target Audience: Active Freedom From Smoking facilitators who are interested in learning more about available resources to support FFS program recruitment and retention
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This course provides guidance on the components of a comprehensive tobacco-free school policy that protects students, faculty, staff and visitors on all properties utilized and owned by schools every day and all year, even when school is not in session. Upon completion of this course, facilitators will gain access to the resource toolkit for members of the Vape-Free Schools Initiative.