Upcoming Educational Opportunities

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To view recordings of past webinars, visit our archives page.

Free Webinars for the Housing Industry

There are no upcoming webinars for the housing industry.

Workshops for the Housing Industry

Live Smoke Free currently does not have any workshops for the housing industry scheduled. Please come visit us at the Fall conferences for the Minnesota Multi-Housing Association (the Fall Convention and Products Show ) and the Minnesota NAHRO Annual Conference.

Webinars for Public Health Professionals

Series: Stages of Smoke-Free Multi-Housing Program Development

Between October 2011 and March 2012, Live Smoke Free hosted a 9-part webinar series discussing topics related to building and maintaining a smoke-free housing program. Webinars featured expert speakers and allowed listeners to learn what's happening in the smoke-free housing movement around the country. This series is designed for public health professionals and smoke-free housing advocates.

To view any of the topic below, visit the webinar archive page.

• The Case for Smoke-Free Housing: The importance of adopting smoke-free housing policies.
• Getting to Know the Multi-Housing Industry: Assessing housing stock and learning what's important to the housing industry.
• Building Your Smoke-Free Housing Program: Creating goals, materials, and procedures to sustain a program.
• Understanding Legal Issues: Learning local, state, and federal laws pertaining to multi-housing.
• Strategies to Reach the Housing Industry: Getting your message to property owners/managers.
• Working with Property Owners/Managers to Adopt a Smoke-Free Policy: The policy adoption process.
• Providing Cessation in Smoke-Free Buildings: Helping current residents make the transition to a smoke-free environment
• Working with Renters Exposed to Secondhand Smoke: Empowering renters suffering from secondhand smoke drift.
• Program Sustainability: Creating lasting partnerships and systems changes.

Workshops for Public Health Professionals

Smoke-Free Multi-Housing 2.0: Leveraging our Successes and Strategizing Next Steps
Presented by Live Smoke Free and the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium

National Conference on Tobacco or Health
Kansas City, MO
August 14 - 16, 2012

The Live Smoke Free program, at the Association for Nonsmokers—Minnesota, and the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium are hosting an ancillary session at the National Conference on Tobacco or Health in Kansas City. The session will be held from 3 – 6 pm on August 14, 2012, the day before the conference officially begins, in Room 2502A of the Kansas City Convention and Entertainment Center.

This session will provide an opportunity for smoke-free housing advocates to review current issues affecting the promotion and adoption of smoke-free policies for multi-unit housing. A brief overview of current local, state, and national policy successes will be followed by facilitated discussions on three topics related to smoke-free housing: medical marijuana use and reasonable accommodation requests; transitional and special population housing; and electronic cigarettes. Appetizers and refreshments will be served.
For questions, please contact Warren Ortland at warren.ortland@wmitchell.edu, or 651-290-7539.

The session is free to attend, but please register here so that we can plan ahead for food and the room layout.

Be sure to join us at out other National Conference events!

Live Smoke Free will be presenting a poster on "Developing a Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing Program" and is a part of a 75-minute session "Leaving No Tenant Exposed: Creating Smoke-Free Public Housing." Visit the National Conference on Tobacco or Health's program page to learn more.