BABIES’ BEST STARTSTARSS of Northern Alberta

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Grande Prairie

Friendship Centre

Pregnant & Parenting Teens

Fairview

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High Prairie

Grande Cache

Beaverlodge

STARSS Display at Prenatal Sessions, Mother Baby Groups, Breast feeding Club, Trade Fairs, Goods and Services Fair and Baby Wellness Sessions

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STARSS GALA

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24 Participants at the STARSS Gala.

Several agencies learned about helping their clients be a star

Parent Link, Healthy Families, Family and Community Support Services, Family Literacy, GP Council for Lifelong Learning, Alberta Health, HIV North, Children’s Health Council, Headstart.

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STARSS Groups

Newly renovated space at the Grande Prairie Friendship Centre for child/parent interaction and childcare helped to support STARSS programming

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Enthusiasm for creating Smoke Free Environments for their children.

Appreciated Ideas for doing different things to delay smoking around their children.

Newsletters, handouts, journals, posters and incentives were most useful

STARSS AT HOME

Started integrating into Healthy Families Home Visits. First year 6 Healthy Family clients; 4 quit smoking around children, 1 quit smoking during visits, 1 later quit smoking.

Note a reduced number of smoking families; introducing 1 on 1 when they come into the program.

Do one annual group series promoting STARSS

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STARSS ALBERTA TRAINING

2008: STARSS Training to 55 projects with FNIHB and PHAC

Summer 2010: Promoting STARSS to 24 Community Agency personnel within Grande Prairie and surrounding area.

Fall 2010: 2 year followup with PHAC programs,present STARSS at AB Coalition Meeting

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THANK YOU WENDY, BRENDA AND ALL THE STARSS ROLL-OUT PROJECTS; YOU HAVE INSPIRED US!

Integrate STARSS into existing programming

Play up the star theme; see stars everywhere

Involve the children Involve the extended family Celebrate small success; focus on

reducing smoking and not smoking around children

Continue to share ideas via the web page and newsletters; enthusiasm from other projects generates more enthusiasm!