Healthier lifestyle choices

This year at Yiramalay we have been focusing on building awareness to make healthier lifestyle choices including our non-smoking policy. We are very lucky to have not only the support from the Healthy Lifestyles Health Promotion Officer at Nindilingarri Cultural Health Services, but we have also had a visit from the Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) team from Broome.  

During their visit, they worked with both staff and students to educate us on the harmful effects of smoking, and we completed a 1-hour SOLIDfit session. The TIS team also worked with staff to help us to develop intervention strategies and have a better understanding of the Nicotine replacement therapies that are available. The TIS also set up student Quit plans and as a community we continue to work one on one with students to break the cycle of smoking.