Early Childhood Services
The Achievement Program provides simple, evidence-based framework to create a healthy learning environment and support the health and wellbeing of everyone in your service. Give children the best possible start to their learning and development and boost staff productivity – at any age, healthy people perform better.
Developed by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education and Training, the initiative aligns closely with the National Quality Standard, the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia and the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework. So, implementing the Achievement Program is a great way to strengthen your practice against national and state guidelines. The Achievement Program is based on the World Health Organization’s model for health promoting schools, an internationally recognised best practice approach for enhancing health, learning and development outcomes.
Even if you are already doing great things to promote health and wellbeing at your service, the Achievement Program helps you build on this, and achieve recognition from the Victorian Government as a Healthy Early Childhood Service. Through participating in the Achievement Program, our health promotion team can support you through; menu planning and assessments, hosting a quarterly cooks network, participation in mutually re-enforcing programs such as the Smiles 4 Miles program, breakfast program and sun smart programs.
Details
Our Health Promotion Team are regularly offering incentive opportunities to help Early Childhood Services along their journey.
For more information or to get your early childhood service involved contact:
Emily Baker – Health Promotion Officer
Phone: 03 5022 5444
Email: ebaker@schs.com.au
Schools
The Achievement Program provides simple, evidence-based framework to create a healthy learning environment and support the health and wellbeing of everyone in your school. Help students develop to their full potential.
Developed by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education and Training, the Achievement Program is based on the World Health Organization’s model for health promoting schools, an internationally recognised best practice approach for enhancing health, learning and development outcomes.
the initiative can be easily incorporated into your strategic and annual planning and self-evaluation processes. Implementing the achievement program is also a great way to enhance student engagement and wellbeing outcomes.
Even if you are already doing great things to promote health and wellbeing at your school, the Achievement Program helps you build on this, and achieve recognition from the Victorian Government as a Healthy School.
Details
Our Health Promotion Team are regularly offering incentive opportunities to help schools along their journey.
For more information or to get your school involved contact:
David Hall – Health Promotion Officer
Phone: 03 5022 5444
Email: dhall@schs.com.au
Workplaces
The Achievement Program is a free, evidence-based health and wellbeing program that will help your workplace create an environment that promotes health and healthy behaviours.
Aligned to the World Health Organization’s healthy workplaces model and Occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMSs), you’ll be supported to improve your workplace’s health and wellbeing.
The program is centred around five health areas. Each health area has a set of targets to achieve, guiding your workplace’s healthy changes. By achieving the health area targets, you’ll improve your workplace’s physical environment, policies and practices, and culture. Your workplace will also receive Victorian Government recognition as a healthy workplace.
At SCHS we value the health and wellbeing of all of our employee’s across all of our sites. We have an established Staff Health & Well-being Committee that meet monthly to oversee this program throughout our organisation. Click on each of the health priority area is below to learn more about what we do here at SCHS.
Physical Activity
E-bike, walking meetings, standing desks, 10,000 Steps Challenge promoted, heart foundation walking group
Healthy Eating
Healthy catering handbook ensuring food supply to all staff and clients are healthier choices, healthy fundraisers and events via the healthy BBQ kit. Supporter of Live Lighter, regular promotion of healthy eating messaging to staff via the e-newsletter and internal grapevine.
Mental Health & Well-being
Employee assistance program, whole of site closure days to encourage break/rest times for staff, internal health & wellbeing calendar to promote awareness days and sense of culture/community within the workplace – RU OK Day!
Smoking
QUIT training offered to staff (once-off for all staff to complete), signage displayed, QUIT referral pathway developed for all staff and clients. Amplifying days like World No Tobacco Day.
Alcohol & Other Drug Use
Coming soon!
Details
For more information or to get your workplace involved contact:
Jacinta Yetman – Health Promotion Officer
Phone: 03 5022 5444
Email: jyetman@schs.com.au
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