Background: Tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use contribute to the burden of illness in young people. Evidence suggests school-based interventions may produce positive health and social outcomes. One Stop Shop (OSS) is a pilot program aimed to increase high school capacity to enhance resilience and protective factors and reduce risk taking behaviour of young people. This presentation focuses on the effectiveness of OSS in reducing student tobacco use.

Method: OSS was implemented in three rural high schools in the Hunter Region of New South Wales. A multi-strategic intervention was used including needs assessment, local ownership, adaptation and consensus, training, an intensive support phase, and support resources and tools.

Outcome data was collected via cross-sectional student surveys (years 7 to 10) prior to the intervention (time1, n=1485), and two years (time 2, n=1256) and four years (time 3, n=1203) after intervention commencement.

Results: Outcome data is currently under analysis. Change in student reported protective and resilience factors and tobacco use will be presented.

Conclusions: The findings of this pilot project will inform whether a capacity building approach can impact on school's ability to positively affect student resilience and protective factors and the use of tobacco.

Implications: This approach to reducing tobacco use in young people has the potential to significantly impact on the mortality and morbidity associated with tobacco, as well as that of alcohol and other drug use. If found to be effective, a more rigorous research design will be required to investigate such a potential.