For the Treatment Specialist, networking can be a means for expanding professional contacts and enhancing the effectiveness of treatment strategies.

Networking provides useful connections with others in your field and allows you to:

• Make important career connections
  
• Share your experience with new colleagues
  
• Get feedback on challenging cases
  
• Learn from other treatment specialists
  
• Exchange information about tobacco control resources
  
• Present helpful information to your peers

Keys to Networking
Seeking opportunities to help others, demonstrating your abilities, and contributing knowledge and information without asking compensation or credit are the keys to networking.

Others will want to learn from you about:

• Experiences conducting an intensive cessation program
  
• Common barriers to helping people quit tobacco
  
• Success stories
  
• Recruitment techniques
  
• Information about workshops and trainings

How to Network
Opportunities for Treatment Specialists to network are many and varied. These include:

• Local Projects Association meetings
  
• Regional Local Project meetings
  
• Conferences and trainings
  
  
• TEPP offers certification, culturally adapted, and systems trainings. http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/tepp/hcp.htm
  
  
• Search current dates for the Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Seminar at: http://www.mayoclinic.org/ndc-rst/index.html
  
  
• The American Society of Addiction Medicine lists conferences on its web page at: http://www.asam.org
  
  
• The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco http://www.srnt.org presents regular trainings for professionals.
  
  
• The Arizona Counselors Association, a branch of the American Counselors Association, hosts an annual conference each fall. They also support a list server discussion group. http://www.azca.org
  
  
• TEPP offers a free list serve, that is, an internet site where you can post messages, ask questions, read comments, or seek contacts with other TEPP funded organizations and personnel. Go to http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/tepp/index.htm and select "Internet" on the left column. One of the options is to sign up for the list serve.
  
  
• GLOBALink is the "International Tobacco Control Network, managed by the International Union Against Cancer. Its aim is to serve all those active in Tobacco-Control, Cancer Control and Public Health . . ." http://www.globalink.org