List of Projects

To offer an accessible, community controlled and culturally appropriate environment for smoking cessation intervention.  This program's development involved significant community consultation, and provides a number of strategies, delivered by Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) using a whole-of-person approach to smoking cessation. 

• Increase the capacity of ACCHSs to implement local tobacco control activities and programs, and provide high quality evidence to inform future Aboriginal tobacco control program and policy development.
• Increase readiness to quit, number of quit attempts, and successful quit attempts.
• to contribute to the evidence base surrounding smoking issues and interventions in an Aboriginal comunity context.
• Deveop a smoking cessation and tobacco control program that is sustainable and transferable to other ACCHSs

Raise awareness about the effects and harms of Alcohol and Drug (including tobacco) misuse

To provide intensive support to Indigenous smokers to quit smoking and raise their knowledge about the harms of smoking. The project was developed from a successful mainstram program developed by Dr James Duff called Quit for CATS (Chronically Addicted Tobacco Smokers). It is evidence-based and uses best practice.

The project aims to test whether a family based program about ETS smoke will reduce the number of clinic presentations of Indigenous infants (Aboriginal and M?ori) for respiratory illness in the first 12 months of the infants life. If successful, this project has the potential to improve the health of Indigenous children across Australia and New Zealand

A reduction of tobacco usage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody in New South Wales Prisons.

Tobacco smoking is a major public health problem for Indigenous (and other) Australians. Tobacco smoking is more than twice as common amongst Indigenous people as other Australians: 50% of Indigenous people aged 18 years and more are daily smokers. However, we do not know whether current Indigenous tobacco control activities are making an impact on smoking.  

A program to support pharmacists working with remote Aboriginal communities. One of the aims of the project is to change behaviour by increasing the use of smoking cessation stategies/programs in their routine practice including nicotine replacement therapy and non-drug strategies

This project aims to reduce tobacco smoking prevalence, initiation, consumption and passive smoking among Aboriginal people in South Australia.

The program aims to reduce the unacceptably high risk of Aboriginal infants dying of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and fatal sleep accidents.  As tobacco smoking is one of the contributing factors for SIDS,  SIDS and Kids WA's Reducing the Risk of SIDS in Aboriginal Communities (RROSIAC) program aims to raise awareness in community members and local professionals of the need for smoking cessation and encourage access to support.  At present SIDS and Kids WA is seeking to build the tobacco control component within the RROSIAC project to better meet the needs of

Training of Indigenous Health Workers in Remote area in Brief Intervention of Smoking Cessation in Indigenous Communities

• Reduce the rate of pregnant women who are smoking, thereby improving the health outcomes for babies and children.
• Increase the number of health  care providers who are trained on how to provide a brief smoking cessation  intervention
• Increase the number of Aboriginal pregnant women and or their family members who are referred to the quitline.

To develop a better understanding of the factors influencing the high smoking rates among pregnant Aborigianl women, and what types of strategies would help women quit.

The campaign has been developed to encourage Aboriginal people to make more attempts to quit smoking, through the sharing of successful quitting stories. The stories of local people living in each region of Western Australia including the metropolitan, Great Southern, Pilbara and Kimberley regions have been recorded.

To reduce the smoking prevalence of Aboriginal inmates in WA prisons