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Resources

Sample newsletter text (DOCX) – schools may wish to use this text to share information about smoking and vaping with parents and carers in their school newsletter (or through any other relevant communication channel)
Get the facts about vaping (PDF) – a poster for schools to illustrate facts about vaping for parents

Quit Victoria and VicHealth: Get the facts on vaping – contains information for parents, carers, and influential adults to inform conversations about vaping with young people in their lives
Quit Victoria: Start the conversation – practical tips to help speak to young people about the risks of vaping
VicHealth: Talk to your teen about vaping – conversation guide that considers a young person’s attitude and behaviours
Royal Children’s Hospital: e-cigarettes and teens – contains information on how to talk to teens about the health risks of using e-cigarettes, including video with paediatricians
Alcohol and Drug Foundation: talking about vaping with young people – practical tips to help speak to young people about the risks of vaping
Department of Education: Smoking and vaping: advice for parents – information for parents and carers about the impacts of smoking and vaping with their children

Smoking and vaping: advice for schools (DOCX) – outlines the facts of smoking and vaping, and resources schools can access to support their school community
Smoking and vaping: advice for parents (DOCX) – this document is tailored for parents and may be useful for them to discuss the impacts of smoking and vaping with their children

The ‘Smoking and vaping: advice for schools’ document is available to download in different languages.

The ‘Smoking and vaping: advice for parents’ document is available to download in different languages.

Quit Victoria – free secondary school teaching and learning resources that focus on vaping health and media literacy, critical thinking and promoting community health. They have also been prepared for adaptation to science, literacy, numeracy, civics and citizenship, and media arts curriculum areas
Life Education Victoria – primary school teaching and learning programs about smoking and vaping
Schools Mental Health Menu – includes alcohol and drug education
Healthy Schools Achievement Program – provides a whole of school framework for health and wellbeing. It includes a focused health area on tobacco, alcohol and other drugs
Positive Choices – resources and drug prevention programs for schools developed by University of Sydney. Includes drug and alcohol booklets for parents, teachers and students covering e-cigarettes and vaping, an e-cigarette factsheet and webinar

Department of Health: Learning environments: smoke-free and vape-free – detailed advice, factsheets and diagrams for schools to comply with the smoking and vaping ban
Department of Health – free ‘No Smoking or Vaping’ resources to download or order, including free A3 metal signage for primary and secondary schools

Quitline provide advice and confidential counselling, including for children from 8 am to 8 pm Monday to Friday – phone 13 78 48, text or request callback or online webchat
DirectLine is a state-wide alcohol and other drugs advice service offering confidential counselling and referral 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – phone 1800 888 236
Youth, Drugs and Alcohol Advice provide a youth-specific advice service from 9 am to 8 pm Monday to Friday – phone 1800 458 685
Alcohol and Drug Foundation advice line – phone 1300 85 85 84
Headspace offer mental health support online, by phone and in person through headspace centres.

Australian Drug Foundation: Nicotine Facts – contains information about effects of nicotine, including withdrawal
Better Health Channel – contains information on the health effects of smoking, strategies for quitting, statistics and Victoria’s laws on smoking
Better Health Channel: e-cigarettes – contains information on the dangers of e-cigarettes
Better Health Channel: e-liquids – contains information the liquid used in e-cigarettes and the dangers of nicotine poisoning
Royal Children’s Hospital – contains a video suitable for school staff and parents/carers on health risks of using e-cigarettes
Uncloud – national campaign funded by the Minderoo Foundation for young people aged 14 to 25 years old

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Reviewed 05 March 2024