Executive Council
Brenda Bell Caffee
Executive Director, Caffee, Caffee and Associates, Hattiesburg, MS
Lawrence Carter
Office of Health Promotion, Tobacco Control Unit, Maryland Department of Health, Baltimore, MD
Lodie Lambright, Chair
Providence, RI; Retired from Rhode Island Department of Health
Debbie Reynolds, Secretary/Treasurer
Division of Chronic Disease and Tobacco Control, Maricopa Country, Department of Public Health, Phoenix, AZ
Donna Scrutchins
Office of Substance Abuse Policy Programs
Chicago Department of Public Health
Circle of Elders
Brenda Bell Caffee
Executive Director, Caffee, Caffee and Associates, Hattiesburg, MS
Lodie Lambright, MPA
Program Manager, Asthma Control Program, Rhode Island Dept of Health, Providence, RI
Yvonne Lewis
Office of Minority Health
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Robert G. Robinson, MSW, Dr.P.H.
Retired Associate Director for Program Development, Office of Smoking and Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA
William S. Robinson, MA
William S. Robinson & Associates, Durham, NC
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Vision
NAATPN's new Technical Assistance and Training program speaks to the very heart of tradition and culture and strives to provide the organizational development, grassroots organizing, and tobacco advocacy expertise necessary to take on tobacco challenges for communities of color.
Funding
NAATPN is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and by the contributions of its members. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest US foundation devoted to improving the health and health care of all Americans. Its grantmaking is concentrated in four areas:
- To assure that all Americans have access to basic health care at reasonable cost
- To improve care and support for people with chronic health conditions
- To promote healthy communities and lifestyles
- To reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse- tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs.
History
NAATPN was launched after a national stakeholders meeting in Dallas in December 1999; the organization was chartered in late 2000. The organization's national headquarters was recently relocated to Columbia, SC, where it provides services to over 200 members and organizations.
Successes
Over the past several years, NAATPN successes include:
- Coordination of national membership meeting for African Americans in tobacco control
- Selection of a governing body representing all regions of the U.S.
- Convening a national meeting of African American clergy in tobacco control
- Facilitation of on-site training and technical assistance in 10 states
- Participation in the Priority Populations Initiative of the American Legacy Foundation
- Development of a culturally appropriate smoking cessation training protocol
- Development of a communications infrastructure including a website (www.NAATPN.org), listserv and on-line newsletter
- Parlaying national meetings into national consensus around a strategic plan for tobacco control in communities of African descent.
Staff
After a lengthy national search we have hired a staff of professionals that we feel personify the skills needed to help fulfill our program goal, to fill gaps in technical assistance and training services traditionally not afforded African American tobacco control advocates and others seeking to do tobacco control work with communities of color.
William S. Robinson, MA
Executive Director
Durham, NC
La Tanisha Wright
West Region Director
Irving, TX
Timolynn Sams
Midwest Region Director
Charlotte, NC
Alisha Simmons
Director of Finance
Summerville, SC
Renée S. Lunsford
Member Services Coordinator
Tallahassee, FL
Tammy McCottry-Brown
Director of Communications
Charleston, SC
Contact Us
National African American Tobacco Prevention Network
P.O. Box 833
Summerville, SC 29484
1-888-7NAATPN
Email: thenetwork@naatpn.org
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