Kakadu 100 quit club

• Reach:

  NT

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

Kakadu Health Service staff are working with the Remote Tobacco Coordinator from the Northern Territory Department of Health's Alcohol and other drugs program to develop and implement the Kakadu 100 quit club. This project aims to have 100 local Bininj residents attempt to quit smoking. The program was instigated after developing a community profile on housing, health, education, employment and tobacco use in Jabiru, with tobacco being identified as the number one area of key concern. After completion in Kakadu, the intention is for the project to be rolled out across the Northern Territory, targeted at 20 growth towns.

Contacts

Emily O'Hara
Health and Lifestyle Education program coordinator
Kakadu Health Service
Ph: (08) 8979 9999
Email: healthed@kakaduhealth.org.au

Alcohol and Other Drugs Program
Northern Territory Department of Health
PO Box 40596
Casuarina NT 0811
Ph: (08) 8999 2780

Links

• View information: Chronicle - June 2011
• View information: Department of Health NT - Alcohol and Other Drugs program
• View information: Kakadu Health Service
• View media release: Indigenous graduates pave the way
• View website: Department of Health NT