Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7386

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to roll out a national vaping prevention education program to all year 7 and 8 students over four years (2024-25 to 2027-28). The program will educate students, teachers and schools about the health harms from e-cigarettes/vaping. The program will raise awareness with young people about the health harms of vaping and empower young people to not commence vaping, thereby reducing and preventing nicotine addiction in Australia.

This program is needed as the rates of vaping have increased significantly in recent years particularly among young people. These findings underline the critical need to implement public health initiatives, such as this program, to reduce e-cigarette use and prevent its uptake among adolescents in Australia.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are:

• Rollout a national vaping education program to raise awareness of the harms of vaping to secondary school students in Australia

• Provide evidence-based information, normative education, and resistance skills training using a harm minimisation and comprehensive social influence approach

• Respond to the widespread request from schools for government assistance in tackling this public health issue

• Provide vaping education and interventions that are accessible to all young Australians, with equal opportunities regardless of school resources

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To be eligible, you must be one of the listed organisation/s and have received an invitation to apply from the department.

Eligible Organisation:

Legal Name of Organisation: Our Futures Institute Limited

ABN: 24 664 585 040

The listed applicant was determined eligible as the OurFutures Institute. The Our Futures Vaping Education Program was created and established by researchers from The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney and implemented in conjunction with the Our Futures Institute. The program is co-designed with educators and students and is the world’s first rigorously evaluated prevention based online vaping module.

Given it is a world first prevention based online vaping program that researchers from the Matilda Centre created and implemented with the Our Futures Institute, the Our Futures Institute have specific insights on the creation, development and rigorous evaluation of the program, which is essential for the longevity and success of the program.

$8,700,000.00

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