About the Project
In 2001, the ACT Government identified the need to do more to address youth smoking locally and committed to the development of a Youth Smoking Prevention Strategy. This has enabled important evidence-based research to be undertaken by the Cancer Council ACT (CCACT) to inform such a strategy.
TCCACT undertook research between 2003 and 2005, which culminated in the 2005 report ‘ACT Youth Smoking Prevention Project’, that outlined 45 recommendations for how to proceed with such a Youth Smoking Prevention Project (YSPP).
In 2006, the ACT Government, through ACT Health, committed to the implementation of school based youth smoking prevention and cessation strategies based on TCCACT’s 2005 recommendations. ACT Health provided funding for TCCACT to develop and facilitate the implementation of these strategies in ACT high schools in 2007, in consultation with the ACT Department of Education and Training, the Catholic Education Office, and the Association for Independent Schools ACT.
The Youth Smoking Prevention and Cessation Resource Pack – launched on World Health Organization World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2007 – is the outcome of this commitment and collaboration.
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