Hawaii Tobacco Cessation Services for Priority Populations Grants

For programmatic questions:

Tricia Mabellos
808.566.5523
tmabellos@hcf-hawaii.org

Malia Maier
808.566.5588
mmaier@hcf-hawaii.org

For questions about the online application process:
Tiani Ho
808.566.5561
tho@hcf-hawaii.org

The Hawaii Community Foundation will provide grants for intensive, evidence-based tobacco cessation services to priority populations in Hawaii to help them to stop using tobacco.

Priority populations:

• Native Hawaiians
• Persons with mental health and/or substance use challenges
• LGBT communities
• Populations with low socioeconomic
• Pregnant women

Project expectations:

• Provide intensive, evidence-based tobacco treatment services to adults who use tobacco, including persons using electronic smoking devices or other emerging products containing nicotine
• Reach and provide intensive interventions that are adapted to the needs and circumstances of the priority populations based on available best practices or evidence-based programming for tobacco cessation
• Help people from priority populations who use tobacco become ready and willing to quit
• Provide nicotine replacement therapies and other approved pharmacotherapy to people who use tobacco when they are ready to quit
• Establish tobacco screening and referral partnerships with agencies in the same service area serving the same priority populations in order to increase access to services
• Participate in evaluation of the program by working directly with the external program evaluator
• Work with the Hawaii Tobacco Quitline to coordinate patient referrals to provide comprehensive cessation services for all people of Hawaii
• Participate in grantee gatherings and trainings as required by HCF to increase staff knowledge, build program capacity, network with other cessation providers, and meet other grantees of the Trust Fund
• Hire and train certified Tobacco Treatment Specialists (TTS) to perform tobacco cessation services
• Perform all other grant expectations

Eligible applicants are Hawaii based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations with a history of successful programmatic implementation and experienced personnel.

Award ceiling: $150,000 per year
Project period: 4 years

Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the online application portal are available on the program website.