The NSW Quitline includes an Aboriginal-specific service, providing individually tailored and culturally sensitive advice for Aboriginal callers. The NSW Aboriginal Quitline offers a free call back service, resources, support for family and friends, and information for health professionals. Consumers can directly call the NSW Quitline and NSW Aboriginal Quitline services, or register for a call via the iCanQuit website.
However, the service was under utilised and research suggested that general audience quit smoking campaigns had limited impact on Aboriginal audiences. There was an opportunity to develop a community driven social marketing campaign, delivered through Facebook using user generated content to engage the target audience in the NSW Quitline and non-smoking behaviours.
In partnership with Indigenous-owned creative agency, Gilimbaa, we work with the Cancer Institute of NSW (CINSW) to design and implement a social marketing strategy to reach Aboriginal people across NSW via Facebook, to raise awareness of the Quitline and influence their behaviours to quit smoking.
The Social Deck acknowledges the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. Our staff live and work on the lands of many First Nations peoples, including the Gubbi Gubbi or Kabi Kabi people, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, the Bundjalung people, the Ngarigo and Ngunnawal people and the Wadawurrung people. These peoples have lived on and cared for these lands for thousands of generations, and their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to elders past and present.
The Social Deck acknowledges the traditional custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. Our staff live and work on the lands of many First Nations peoples, including the Gubbi Gubbi or Kabi Kabi people, the Turrbal and Yuggera people, the Bundjalung people, the Ngarigo and Ngunnawal people and the Wadawurrung people. These peoples have lived on and cared for these lands for thousands of generations, and their sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to elders past and present.
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