The Learning through Evidence, Action and Reflection Networks (LEARN) project is a partnership between tobacco control practitioners engaged in the Smoke-Free Ontario strategy and PTCC. The LEARN project’s goal is to cultivate and facilitate knowledge exchange across the province and to enable efficient coordination of capacity building activities.

The project has three main components. First, LEARN will create and support Communities of Practice (CoPs), for Ontario’s tobacco control practitioners. These communities will make it easier for tobacco control workers to share information, support each other’s work, avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts and communicate with others across Ontario. These communities will also make it easier for PTCC to identify and respond to tobacco control practitioners’ needs in specific areas.

Second, LEARN will also document the experiences and lessons learned of practitioners that have implemented interventions (policies and programs) in various areas so that others may learn from them. Once documented, resources will be created and shared via PTCC’s website to help make it easier to implement similar practices in other communities across the province.

Third, LEARN staff will also review literature on issues that tobacco control practitioners identify as ‘hot topics’. These evidence reviews will help to explain how the interventions worked and the audience and settings where they were successfully implemented.