Partnering with education and job and training programs for sustainable tobacco control among Baltimore african american young adults.

摘要: Background: Young adults are generally overlooked in tobacco control initiatives, even though they critical to sustained success. African American young who not higher education or working particularly vulnerable harmful use, given high smoking rates and limited access cessation services. Objectives: Guided by community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles, we sought identify programand community-level strategies reduce use among Baltimore. We describe the challenges opportunities for integrating effective into job training programs unemployed adults. Methods: As part of a longstanding community-research partnership Baltimore, conducted fourteen semistructured key informant interviews with leaders from city government adults. The design, data collection, analysis, dissemination all included dialogue between active contribution both community partners. Results: Interview were structured (mindset change desire bonds trusted adult), (culture fatalism, as stress reliever, culture adults), possible solutions (tobacco designed program staff participants integration issues holistic goals policies). Conclusions: emergent themes enhance our understanding how is situated lives potential building sustainable, public health solutions.