Two communities using a community led approach to change their local childhood obesity system have won the Victorian Public Healthcare Award for Supporting Healthy Populations, providing great recognition and credit for community efforts to create healthy change.
Honesty Snacks has demonstrated that quick and tasty snack foods can meet the Victorian Government’s Healthy Choices guidelines.
Bruthen Primary School has created calmer classrooms, focused students and less behavioural problems by addressing the food that children eat and drink at school.
For the first time, Victorian health professionals met to discuss how they can harness the health benefits of nature to improve our health.
Increasing condom accessibility and availability are vital to reducing high Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) rates in our region.
In response to increasing ladder-related falls in the community, the Diamond Creek Men’s Shed has come up with a novel solution: the Keeping Men Grounded project.
When champions in educational settings are willing to work with health promotion staff around tough issues such as domestic and community violence the outcomes keep on flowing.
In a rapidly changing prevention and treatment landscape, ensuring no one is left behind is exceedingly complex.