Regional smokefree/auahi kore teams around Aotearoa New Zealand are planning interesting and innovative activities over the month of May to highlight World Smokefree Day. Read on for a taste of what is happening around the country…
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DUNEDIN
CREATIVE STORIES: Young people are invited to submit a story, poem or piece of art to ‘The Star’ newspaper about why smokefree cars are cool. There will also be feature articles in ‘The Star’ about smokefree homes and cars.
PETITION: The team is involved in the banning point of sale petition and will be gathering signatures at the Warehouse on the day.
SMOKY CARS: A smoke machine is being put to good use, filling up a car in the Warehouse carpark with smoke. The car is manned by dummies in face-masks to highlight the dangers of smoking in cars. There will also be a model ‘smokefree car’ with tips for making your car smokefree. Children will receive a pack with a coloring competition and for parents there is quit support information and giveaways.
LOCAL TOWNS: Team members in Ranfurly and Lawrence are also busy promoting World Smokefree Day.
CHRISTCHURCH
SMOKEFREE PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS: The Hornby project team is busy working towards smokefree parks and playgrounds and has a presentation coming up to the local community board to make their case. Local high school students are involved in pushing to make their local park smokefree.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Team members have been strengthening community links by talking to parents and communicating with them through local newsletters about smokefree homes and cars and finding out how they feel about smokefree parks.
EXTENSIVE MEDIA: Through radio, papers, organisational publications, Health Promoting Schools magazine, interviews, local TV.
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MARLBOROUGH
ROCKQUEST: Smokefree rockquest is coming to Blenheim! The event will be in August, but the month of May will be used for building up it’s profile and getting the community in behind the event. The colleges are taking on the World Smokefree Day theme ‘It’s about us’ for themselves with youth leading the media activity around the event. The Marlborough Express ran a feature article about the Smokefree Rockquest and interviewed members of the Smokefree Project team at the local college.
SMOKEFREE BABIES: Every baby born in May will receive a smokefree pack and information about support for anyone wanting help to quit smoking. These packs will support the midwives who have been through the smokefree pregnancy training and who are now feeling comfortable asking smokefree questions and offering cessation support for mums and whanau.
TARANAKI
MEDIA: Community papers will run full-page features profiling positive smokefree young people. Smokefree Auahi Kore will also be a feature on the Te Puna Oranga health show (community Iwi radio). The local iwi sation will run a radio competition aimed at parents during the day and at young people in the evening.
PETITION: A petition is running around smokefree outdoor areas for children. There is a petition for organisations and for community members . This has been promoted through local media and is gaining good levels of support. On World Smokefree Day a banner will make its way through town that people in support of smokefree outdoor areas for children can sign.
C.H.A.N.C.E.S COALITION
Cambridge, Hamilton, Huntley and Ngaruawahia
SMOKEFREE COLD TURKEY PACK CHALLENGE: Community Health providers Kaute Pasifika Services, Te Runanga o Kirikiriroa, Nga Miro Health Centre, and Population Health Services with sponsorship from the National Heart Foundation are urging current smokers to take up the challenge to quit smoking for a day in celebration of World Smokefree Day. Smokefree Cold Turkey Packs contain the essentials for smoker's survival to keep them occupied and happy: snacks, activities, Smokefree & healthy lifestyle information and Quit Coach team contact details. This could be the catalyst for going totally smokefree or a chance to set a goal and achieve it. An on-call experienced smoking cessation practitioner is available as is provision to join a smoking cessation programme at the completion of the challenge.
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION RANGATAHI: Hamilton community providers - Te Ahurei Rangatahi Peer Education, Te Kohao Health, Population Health Services with sponsorship from University of Waikato, are raising awareness amongst students attending Alternative Learning Centres (ALC) in Hamilton about the dangers of smoking and strategies to help minimise the effects of tobacco consumption. Research shows that the uptake of smoking is highest amongst Maori and Pacific Island Rangatahi attending ALC and so workshops will be held with students around the theme of "What does WSFD Day look like & mean to them". The three workshops are: 1. Creative art/poetry/rap 2. Exploring holistic Rangatahi Wellbeing 3. Tobacco Facts & cessation Health Promoters. Harkness Letoa (Population Health) & Teresa Wetere (Te Kohao Health) have been working with Te Ahurei Rangatahi Manager Eugene Davis to create workshops that are interactive, educational and which encourage creative ability.
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WEST COAST (South Island)
GRAFITTI ART: A competition called ‘Battle of the Bombers’ is on for young graffiti artists on the West Coast. There are two age-groups, 13-18 and 19-23 and these young people will submit a piece of work on plywood based on the theme ‘Smokefree....it’s about us/ Kia AUAHI KORE...mō tātou te kaupapa’. A winner will be selected from each age group and wins a commission from the Grey Council to transfer their art onto a town wall permanently.
COLOURING COMPETITION: To be run in the primary schools using the using the World Smokefree Day colouring design and another design.
MATERNITY WARDS: Smokefree cars and homes packs will be distributed throughout May in the ward and then on an ongoing basis.
ASHBURTON
SMOKEFREE PLAYGROUNDS: Are being launched on World Smokefree Day! There will be a big celebration with the students from Hampstead school blowing out candles on a cake to symbolise no more smoke in the playground. It was the students from Hampstead Primary who initiated and advocated for the move to smokefree playgrounds with the council. The mayor will unveil the new signs declaring the playground smokefree. Students, teachers and councillors will be playing games together and afterwards Komiti Marae will provide a healthy lunch.
MEDIA: There will be extensive media throughout the week, using local celebrities celebrating all the positive aspects to being smokefree.
WHANGAREI
‘OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND’: This campaign focuses on banning point of sale displays of tobacco products and is being run by the Northland DHB Smokefree Team, Health Promoting Schools, Fruit in Schools, ASH, Cancer Society and local schools. Each school will be collecting ‘thumbprints’ on banners in support of removing the displays and also signing written petitions for presentation to parliament. Students are leading the petition drive in their school and community. On World Smokefree Day, these banners and petitions will be taken to the streets to gain public signatures and students will present theirs to Northland’s M.P’s.
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HAMILTON
COMMUNITY FUN DAY: K’Aute Pasifika Services together with Te Rununga O Kirikiriroa Trust are inviting their community to join with them in celebrating World Smokefree Day with a fun day that also encourages people to seek support to quit smoking. There will be great food, performances by the Pacific Youth Group and Maori Cultural Group and Waikato Chiefs players and the Evers-Swindell sisters will be there to join in the activities. During the day the Cancer Society and Heart Foundation will also be collecting signatures for banning point of sale displays.
TIPS FOR TEAMS
Does your region have a ‘What’s On?’ website? It can be great to put the WHAT-WHEN-WHERE-WHY-WHO and your contact details up on the web. Check out www.whatsonhamilton.co.nz to see what Grant Smith and team at K’Aute Pasifika submitted.
- Grant also placed info on the ‘Sports Waikato’ and ‘Classic Hits’ websites.
- How about a slot on community radio- some have free news services or slots for community groups to talk about their activities.
- It is also a good idea to utilise local newspapers by placing articles, interviews, press releases and photos as you lead up to and on World Smokefree Day itself. Local stories about local people, issues and successes are always great.
If you have any ideas for activities for WSFD 2007 or tips to help teams run smoothly, contact us to have them displayed on this page.
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