Article
March 19, 2025
This month the National Best Practice Unit welcomes Telita Goile to the team. Telita has taken up a role of Executive Officer and has hit the ground running while attending a 2 day NBPU TIS planning workshop a week after starting her role. Here’s a welcome from our newest team member 🎉 Hello everyone! My…
Article
March 19, 2025
Just a brief update from me this month. I really had to share an important new paper from the Next Generation Youth Wellbeing Study, led by Prof Sanda Eades AO. You might recall that Prof Eades was the inaugural winner of the Tom Calma Award at the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference held in the Gold Coast last…
Article
March 19, 2025
The NBPU TIS team has been incredibly busy over the past month reviewing the performance reports we’ve received. A huge thank you to all the teams who submitted on time or reached out for an extension. As some of you may know, there were discrepancies in the due dates this round due to an error,…
Snippet
February 19, 2025
Every month, the NBPU TIS newsletter highlights a Tackling Indigenous Smoking team that’s recently posted something great on their social pages. This month we enjoyed one from the NT’s Big Rivers Consortium lead by the team at Katherine West Health Board. The Ngukurr community welcomed the TIS team to spread the smoke TIS messaging through…
Article
February 19, 2025
I’ll begin by wishing everyone well, particularly those of you whose young ones in your life have recently transitioned back into the schooling system. I empathise with all those parents with children going into school or preschool for the first time, since it can be an emotional occasion. I felt that through my grandson, who…
February 19, 2025
TIS Success Stories | February
TIS Team and Location Mawarnkarra Health Service is funded to deliver TIS activities across the Newman East Pilbara IREG. In the East Pilbara region service delivery is provided by their partner Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service (PAMS). The region includes four remote communities (Jigalong, Parngurr, Punmu & Kunawarritji). The PAMS TIS team is committed to delivering…