Babies’ best start
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BABIES’ BEST STARTSTARSS of Northern Alberta
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STARSS Sites
Grande Prairie
Friendship Centre
Pregnant & Parenting Teens
Fairview
Valleyview
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
Friends
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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
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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
STARSS THEN STARSS NOW
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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
Phase 1 Phase 2
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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!