Tobacco Control Grants

Northern New South Wales Local Health District (NNSW LHD)

This project aims to influence and enable more smokers to commit to taking small, practical steps towards quitting tobacco. The campaign will include multiple strategies to improve community uptake of tobacco cessation support and resources. Community conversations and market research will be undertaken to identify the impact of smoking.

Messages with focus on the impact of smoking on local communities will then be developed with the aim to improve uptake of existing tobacco cessation services by local Aboriginal communities. 

Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District

This project aims to work with a diverse range of Aboriginal people currently smoking and those who have recently quit in the age groups of 18-30yrs and 30-45yrs, to develop a series of messages that focus on quitting and preferred appropriate and acceptable processes for the delivery of those messages.

Objectives are to enhance referrals to the Aboriginal Quitline, iCanQuit website and local services including Quit 4new life, through the use of text messages, social media and video production.

This project takes a multi-faceted approach to reduce smoking among Aboriginal communities in Western NSW. It will build on current smoking cessation support services and other cancer prevention activities coordinated by Marathon Health in Western NSW, including the HPV self-sampling and bowel cancer screening programs currently targeting Western NSW Aboriginal communities.

It will utilise existing, established and cancer-related partnerships with Local Aboriginal Land Councils throughout Western NSW, Quitline, the Western NSW Local Health District (LHD), schools and other relevant local health providers to develop and deliver a comprehensive community engagement program targeting Aboriginal smokers. 

This project aims to  reduce  smoking rates by 5%  by 2018 for all Arabic speaking people participating in the project, by delivering strategies that  demonstrate efficiency within outreach and community engagement, using the ethnic media and tailoring culturally specific messages via CMRC bilingual workers.

The project will develop health capacity building strategies, workforce training and integration of initiatives developed and delivered by a culturally tailored tobacco control program. The CMRC will employ an Arabic speaking worker to deliver Tobacco control strategies to Arabic speaking communities across Cumberland LGA. 

The focus of this project is to develop and deliver a series of bilingual activities and resources which will target members of 5 culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Sydney. The project aims to significantly reduce the usage of tobacco and smoking in these high risk groups and promote the use of early intervention support services available through the NSW government and health system.

The priority is to use several communication strategies to reach those members of CALD communities that have been identified through different research programs. These are Arabic (predominantly Lebanese), Mandarin/Cantonese and Vietnamese speaking communities. The Korean community will also be targeted based on anecdotal information supported by the inclusion of this community on the multicultural Quitline.

This project will target Arabic and Chinese speaking communities in the St George region to identify the groups within these communities where smoking is still prevalent and develop strategies, utilise community health and community sector networks and promote the use of existing promotional material and support options such as the Arabic and Chinese Quitlines to reduce tobacco use among these populations.

The project will apply a range of methods to reduce smoking in the targeted communities, including the use of peer educators, distribution of promotional material at cultural community events and activities, information sessions organised or linked to existing social group programs, promotion through Arabic and Chinese media and developing links with Arabic and Chinese speaking GPs and pharmacists.