Youth Tobacco Cessation Tool Kit and Guide
Youth Tobacco Cessation Toolkit and Facilitator’s Guide
Since late 2009, the NAFC has been working on youth tobacco cessation project, funded by Health Canada. This project has primarily been focussed on developing a new and improved youth tobacco cessation toolkit aimed at helping urban Aboriginal youth and their peers to quit smoking and chewing tobacco. The development of the toolkit is based on updating and improving a previous toolkit that the NAFC developed in 2005 Everyone Loves a Quitter: Tobacco Cessation Toolkit. After consultations with a number of youth, recommendations were made to revamp the 2005 toolkit. A Steering Committee provided advice and oversight to this project.
The new toolkit has been developed for Aboriginal youth with Aboriginal youth input and involvement. The toolkit contains knowledge and information about tobacco based on traditional Aboriginal perspectives. In addition to the toolkit, the NAFC developed a facilitator’s guide which is intended to help Friendship Centre workers facilitate youth tobacco cessation support groups and it complements the youth toolkit. The draft versions of both of these resources were pilot tested in several Friendship Centres across Canada by trained facilitators during the fall/winter of 2010.
All Friendship Centres across Canada have received copies of the toolkit and facilitator’s guides. The NAFC is also pleased to share electronic copies of these resources.
The NAFC would like to thank those individuals involved with the project:
Project Contractors:
- First Peoples Group: Guy Freedman, Sharon McLean, and Lisa Koperqualuk
Steering Committee Members:
- Ashlee Cochrane, NAFC’s Aboriginal Youth Council
- Audrey Lawrence, Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada
- Conrad Saulis, NAFC
- Dawn Maracle, Consultant/Doctoral Student
- Kody Taylor, NAFC’s Aboriginal Youth Council
- MaryAnn Notarianni, NAFC
- Musqwaunquot Rice, NAFC
- Robert Walsh, Canadian Council for Tobacco Control
- Simon Brascoupe, National Aboriginal Health Organization
Friendship Centre Pilot Site Coordinators:
- Nina Bruce, Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Centre, Rankin Inlet, NU
- Maria Bell, Merritt Conayt Friendship Society, Merritt, BC
- Marilyn Morrison, Smithers Dze L Kant Friendship Society, Smithers, BC
- Darlene Leonew, Port Alberni Friendship Centre, Port Alberni, BC
- Skyla Mody, Sagitawa Friendship Centre, Peace River, AB
- Coralee Delaney, Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre Society, AB
- Carmella McAdam, Athabasca Native Friendship Centre Society, AB
- Darcy King, North West Friendship Centre, Meadow Lake, SK
- Tod Red-Iron, Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, SK
- Kathy Whitford, Battlefords Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, SK
- Steve Dymtro, CanAm Indian Friendship Centre, Windsor, ON
- Shanna Brewster, Atikokan Native Friendship Centre, Atikokan, ON
- Mélanie Napartuk, Centre d’amitié autochtone La Tuque, QC
- Marie-Hélène Riverin, Centre d’amitié autochtone de Sept-Iles, QC
- Robin Purcell, St. John’s Native Friendship Centre, St. John’s, NL
- Chris Nicholas, MicMac Native Friendship Centre, Halifax, NS
Tobacco Policy Dialogue Session Report (to view click on below report)
On November 16, 2010, the NAFC hosted a national policy dialogue session in Ottawa to bring together NAFC stakeholders, Aboriginal health stakeholders, tobacco policy stakeholders, government stakeholders, and Aboriginal youth to discuss domestic and international policies on tobacco control and their impact on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.
The goal of this one-day dialogue session was to engage stakeholders in discussions regarding tobacco control policies; how they relate to Aboriginal Peoples in Canada; and how they can be improved upon, specifically for Aboriginal Peoples; with the intent of developing commentary or recommendations to potentially influence federal tobacco policies specific to urban Aboriginal Peoples. Over the course of the day, a number of themes and recommendations emerged from the discussions, which are highlighted in the report.
