Adolescent immunisation campaign toolkit

Protection for everybody

A campaign to promote free recommended vaccines to prevent serious disease for students in year 7 and year 10.

Objectives

The campaign supports the WA Health objective to increase adolescent vaccination rates across the state by aiming to:

• increase awareness of the free immunisations (and the diseases they protect against) delivered under the National Immunisation Program (NIP) to year 7s and year 10s
• increase completion of the VaccinateWA parental consent form for adolescent immunisations in step with the WA Health delivered school-based immunisation clinics delivered in high schools throughout the year.

Key messages

• Vaccines provided during adolescence are free and protect adolescents from contracting serious, vaccine-preventable illnesses.
• Students in years 7 and 10 will be offered these vaccinations via immunisation team visits to their school. Schools will provide details of these visits and parents will need to complete the consent form.
• Consent is required prior to the clinic visit so parents are urged to consent or decline on their child’s behalf.
• Students entering year 7 are offered the HPV immunisation and a diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (dTpa) booster.
• Students in year 10 can access the meningococcal ACWY vaccine which protects against 4 strains of this rare, life-threatening disease.
• If students miss their vaccine at school, parents are encouraged to get their child immunised at a community pharmacist or community immunisation clinic or at participating GPs, Aboriginal Medical Services (consultation fees may apply).

Timing

February to October 2025

Campaign material