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Smarter than Smoking
 Expert advice and support for young people, teachers and the education sector The Smarter Than Smoking SA Project aims to prevent young people from becoming or continuing to be smokers through conducting effective programs in schools and with young people in the community. The Smarter than Smoking SA message specifically targets the 10-15 year old age group. This project began in WA as an initiative of Healthway, developed by a coalition of WA government and non-government organisations and managed by the National Heart Foundation (WA Division).
Smarter than Smoking SA projects and resources include:
Smoke-free education and childcare guidelines
The guidelines were developed in collaboration with representatives from the three education sectors, Early Childhoos Australia and other key stakeholders, and have been trialled by South Australian schools.
The guidelines have been endorsed by the three education sectors and Early Childhood Australia and are available via download to all schools and childcare centres. They are both a source of information about smoking as well as a practical document for schools and early childhood centres to use to develop a smoke-free policy. The guidelines provide information around:
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Tobacco-the truth is out there A curriculum based prevention resource for middle school years, which explores the issues surrounding smoking and young people. Tobacco the Truth is Out There is mapped to the SACSA Framework. Tobacco: the truth is out there is available for dowload from OxyGen. Back to top
Tobacco education for senior students A prevention website for the senior years to support teachers with exemplars to illustrate planning on tobacco for SACE Stage 1 Mathematics, English and Australian Studies subject areas. This site also aims to provide an efficient and reliable source of programming and assessment ideas for teachers as well as provide up-to-date information for students. www.tobaccoeducation.org.au Critics’ Choice competition
The Critics' Choice is an annual national competition for schools (Years 5-12) students. Students watch Australian and overseas anti-tobacco TV commercials and choose the one they think would help stop them smoking, or make them quit. Critics' Choice: May 31- September 24 2010 An innovative anti-tobacco teaching tool run in schools Smarter than Smoking SA Young Directors Festival  An innovative new project that expands the Critics’ Choice resource by developing material around critical literacy and filmmaking. The Smarter than Smoking SA Young Directors Festival aims to support teachers to produce anti-tobacco television commercials that students have developed themselves. The project also aims to raise awareness of the issues around young people and tobacco smoking within the schools setting through an innovative method. Fulham North Primary, Enfield High, Renmark Primary and Paralowie R-12 were involved in the 2008 Young Directors Festival. The schools worked on all forms of production from script development to editing. The schools received support from the Smarter than Smoking SA Project as well as Concordia College. A mini-academy awards night was held on National Youth Tobacco Free Day, Wednesday March 19th 2008, at the Mercury Cinema with special guest star MCs Mike and Steph from Nova 91.9 radio. The schools were presented with the following awards: Excellence in Creative Production Design The Smarter than Smoking SA project is currently evaluating the project and hope to roll out the recommendations state-wide making it available to all SA schools in 2010. For more information please email Sally at shounslow@quitsa.org.au Smarter than Smoking SA School Newsletters Newsletters are distibuted to every school in South Australia three times annually providing an update of the projects and resources developed by the Smarter than Smoking SA project. More information.... Youth Tobacco Free Day (YTFD) is an annual event that aims to raise awareness of tobacco as a health and social issue among young people aged 10 to 25 years in Australia. YTFD was hels on March 19 and highlighted the cost of smoking and encouraged young people to think about other things they could spend their money on. Young people aged 10-25 years were encouraged to enter the on-line competition by simply playing the interactive game 'Scary maths; and filling in their contact details to go in the random draw to win a range of prizes including signed gear from the Hilltop Hoods, iTunes vouchers and gift cards to their favourite clothing store.
An on-line poll called for young people to cast their vote asking if cigarette prices increased to $20.00 a packet, whether this would encourage them to quit smoking or prevent them from taking up smoking. The results of the poll showed 73% of young people voted yes!
Congratulations to the following winners:
$300.00 clothing/Jb Hi-Fi voucher
Michael, SA
Nikki, VIC
Signed gear from the Hilltop Hoods
James, QLD
David, SA
John, VIC
Lauren, VIC
Monique, SA
Stacey, VIC
OxyGen.org.au is an interactive and informative anti-tobacco website developed in collaboration with Quit Victoria and Smarter than Smoking WA. The website is specifically designed for young people and contains the following sections:
Being smoke free-FAQs, mythbusters, comebacks and help quitting
Hard facts-Facts and figures
Tobacco Industry Exposed- Marketing ploys of the tobacco industry
Your stuff- Young people can upload stories, lyrics, pics, videos and fill in the on-line poll
Fun-Interactive games
Resources for schools- An array of resources for educators
If you have any great tobacco prevention ideas you have used in your school or community, let us know at oxygen.org.au. This could include posters, drama productions, experiments etc.
Smarter than smoking resources Especially for 10-15 year olds, this includes branded information and merchandise. Smarter than Smoking SA wristbands and factsheets are now available from the Oxygen website. Order now! Peer support program activities A collaborative project ‘Tobacco and smoking’ uses peer influence to challenge tobacco beliefs and behaviours. This resource was developed collaboratively by Quit SA and the Peer Support Foundation of South Australia. It is available to all schools where a staff member has completed peer support training. It builds on to existing structures in peer leadership and aims to increase young people's awareness of smoking and tobacco-related issues and challenge their beliefs about tobacco use. If you would like more information about the resource, or information about training, contact Kaye Barnett Peer Support Foundation of SA Phone: 8364 2311 Email: peersupport@mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/peersupport/  2010 Workshops Next workshop:
The 3.5 hour workshop includes:
· tobacco use in Australia
· effects of tobacco use · understanding tobacco use among young people · prevention and cessation techniques (including brief intervention and motivational interviewing) Certificates will be provided and the workshop can count towards your professional development
Who would benefit from these workshops?
Want to know more?
Register your interest by emailing shounslow@quitsa.org.au Sally Hounslow
Smarter than Smoking Project SA - Project Officer Phone: 8291 4143 Fax: 8291 4194 Email: shounslow@quitsa.org.au Back to top |
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