SmokeCheck is starting in NSW!

The SmokeCheck Program is designed to provide AHWs with information and skills in delivering smoking cessation programs to their clients.

Over the next two years we are planning to work with and deliver this program to Aboriginal Medical Services and mainstream services throughout NSW. The aim is to reach all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers, as well as clinical staff who encounter Indigenous clients.

The full program consists of two workshops:

• one-day workshop for Health Workers, to assist them in using the SmokeCheck Program. • two-hour workshop for managers and administrators, to discuss the organisational support needed to deliver SmokeCheck intervention routinely to clients.

This project has the full support of the Minister for Health, and is being overseen by an Advisory Committee comprised of representatives of the AH&MRC, Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion, NSW Health, the Australian Centre for Health Promotion and academics from the University of Sydney.

If you work in NSW we would like to invite you and your organisation to participate in the SmokeCheck Program. Please contact us to to further discuss the program in more detail and to possibly arrange a suitable date for the workshops in your area. If you would like any further information regarding SmokeCheck, please contact Hannah Nancarrow on (02) 9351 5129 or smokecheck@health.usyd.edu.au