DID YOU KNOW? 
One of the Closing the Gap targets is to increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies with a healthy birthweight to 91 per cent by 2031. We are currently on track to meet this target and smoking cessation is a crucial factor. We all have a role to play to help achieve this!

Have you seen our deadly social media campaign that we developed to” spread the word” through a strengths-based lens and start a smoke-free Sistahood. We are currently gathering data to evaluate the campaign and would love for you to provide feedback on this through our survey so we can continue to improve our messages.

There is a survey for community women: Survey for Women | iSISTAQUIT as well as one for health professionals: Survey for Health Professionals | iSISTAQUIT You could win an iPad for completing the survey! Please include a link to our surveys in your newsletter and our team can send you a QR code to include as well.  

We will use the evaluation and results from SISTAQUIT and iSISTAQUIT to improve the online training, resources, and social media campaign even further. We want to listen to your feedback to make sure the training and resources meet your needs. We call this phase the “scale up” and we will provide updates on this phase through this newsletter. Contact our team if you would like to register your interest.

For further information, please contact our team via email iSISTAQUIT@scu.edu.au or visit our website www.isistaquit.org.au
 

If you do not want to receive these updates, please reply to iSISTAQUIT@scu.edu.au

In the lead up to National Close the Gap Day, iSISTAQUIT met with NSW Aboriginal Quitline Coordinator, Kerindy Clarke to discuss all things partnership. Kerindy is now a member of the iSISTAQUIT National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander iSISTAQUIT Advisory Committee to guide and support the project over the coming years.

National #CloseTheGapDay was an important opportunity to raise awareness of the need for health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians and to acknowledge the efforts of organisations and individuals that are working towards this vision. 🖤

iSISTAQUIT sat down with Cure Cancer who have raised over $83.1m to support lifesaving research across all cancer types to discuss iSISTAQUIT’s mission towards closing the gap. You can read the blog here: ‘It’s how we can all work and learn together’: iSISTAQUIT’s mission to Close the Gap — Funding Cancer Research | Cure Cancer

The iSISTAQUIT COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (iSQ CoP)

Please join us in our next CoP in April, where we have guest speaker: Kerindy Clarke presenting: Referral pathways and processes of the Aboriginal Quitline.

Save the date: April 21st @10am NSW time

If you would like an invite please register your interest iSISTAQUIT@scu.edu.au

Your service may have been involved with the SISTAQUIT trial, where 22 ACCCHO’s were randomised to SISTAQUIT training or usual care. Data collection has been completed and analysis is underway. We are committed to providing feedback on the results from this trial to the services involved. Watch this space…We are happy for previous SISTAQUIT and iSISTAQUIT sites to continue the journey with us into the next phase (see below).

the next step…
We have been successful in securing further funding to implement iSISTAQUIT more widely into more services, including mainstream services. So, if you missed enrolling into iSISTAQUIT, you could register your interest to be part of the next exciting phase. Register your interest today by email to iSISTAQUIT@scu.edu.au