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What is the Tobacco Evaluator Alliance (TEA)?

  • A community of practice of California Tobacco Prevention Program-funded evaluators.
  • A peer-to-peer forum for dialogue among evaluators to share tools, knowledge and resources.
  • A vehicle to build California-specific collaboration around interest areas.
  • A place to voice concerns, get support and troubleshoot real issues from the field.
  • A communication channel for evaluators statewide to build personal and professional contacts, capacity and skill.

What Can Members Expect?

Quarterly TEA Meetings
  • Stay up-to-date on advancements in the field.
  • Be the first to know about upcoming training and work opportunities.
  • Share examples, tools, knowledge and capacity building.
  • Become familiar with your colleagues working in the field.

Quarterly TEA meetings take place every fourth Wednesday of February, May, and August, and the third Wednesday of November from 10:00 – 11:30 AM.

Special Topic Forums
  • In-depth conversations on tobacco prevention evaluation.
  • Improve your comfort level in addressing new challenges.
  • Develop your expertise in tobacco-evaluation focus areas.
  • Share your knowledge and experience with others to advance the field.
  • Build collaboration with other evaluators and programs.
  • Advance your knowledge of priority populations.

Special topic forums are held on an ad hoc basis and are scheduled based on member interest.

Communication Channel
  • Access to TEA listserv to communicate with other CTPP-funded evaluators.
  • Information about the latest California tobacco evaluation updates.
  • To use the listserv to communicate with colleagues, become a member.
Skill-building and professional development
  • Communication about the latest California tobacco updates.
  • Open sharing of knowledge, skills and capacity to improve the tobacco-prevention effort.
  • In-depth conversations on tobacco prevention evaluation. 
  • Learn new techniques and strategies for integrating program/policy evaluation.
  • Improve use of evaluation to promote community action.
  • Facilitate program and community capacity in evaluation.
  • Gain knowledge of the latest evaluation tools and skill-building resources. 
  • Pioneer new ideas and tools in evaluation.

If you’d like to know more about TEA as a Community of Practice, listen to this podcast.