South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative

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Regional Coordination

SCTC employs Regional Coordinators to provide our funded coalitions with assistance and coordination at the local level. Regional Coordinators also work at the regional level to develop coordination and collaboration amongst those coalitions. Regions covered are the Upstate, Midlands, Pee Dee and Low Country regions.  Coordination services include:

• Capacity building – work with funded partnerships to develop grassroots/coalition leaders and help them learn the skills of creating and running community based coalitions

• Networking – link local coalitions and partnerships with key stakeholders, potential partners, and with statewide resources

• Leadership training – work with the state office to identify training and technical assistance resources to help coalitions increase their performance, motivation and overall effectiveness

• Coalition Assistance – provide support to each partnership grant to plan and implement proposed activities; monitor SCTC funded Action Plans; ensure activities/expenditures link to contract deliverables

• Fiscal Integrity – ensure expenditures match action plan; ensure SCTC funds are maintained separately from other monies; ensure SCTC funds zero out at the end of each funding cycle

Current Regional Coordinators are:

State Program Coordinator: Gina Lane

Upstate: Anne Spence

Midlands: Gina Lane

Pee Dee: Barbara Morgan

Low Country: Jeannie Simpson

Regional Coordinators welcome volunteer assistance to further their work, or the work of any of SCTC's funded coaltions. If you have experience with the following, and/or any other that you think would be helpful to our work, please contact us at info@smokefreesc.org

• Experience and skills in planning, conducting, and coordinating community activities, campaign coordination, grassroots coordination or tobacco control with the goal of policy change in the areas of prevention, cessation and environmental tobacco smoke. 

• Computer skills required with the ability to maintain fax and e-mail capabilities

• Ability to work in and promote non smoking environments

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with necessary agencies, organizations, individuals and public/private sector organizations

• Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively, both verbally and in writing. 

• Fiscal management

• Excellent organizational skills

• Ability to establish effective relationships with diverse populations represented in the community