LA CADA (Allen House Tobacco Disparities Program)

Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (L.A. CADA) will conduct a Wellness

Quality Improvement Project (QIP) at our 60-bed Allen House residential treatment facility

in Santa Fe Springs, CA -- a program that serves adult men and women throughout Los

Angeles County. The project goal is to reduce tobacco use and promote wellness policies

and activities among disadvantaged, low-income people with substance use (and

co-occurring mental health) disorders. Allen House clients are primarily persons of color

(65% Latinx and 17% African American), including the homeless, LGBTQ individuals,

persons recently released to treatment from jails, prisons and the courts, and persons

living with HIV. Our project goal will be accomplished via adoption and implementation of

tobacco-free campus policies, evidence-based nicotine addiction treatment, and other

wellness policies/systems change that support tobacco use cessation for L.A. CADA’s

residential treatment clients.