Health Promotion
Our skilled health promotion workforce together with local partnerships, encourage healthy eating and physical activity.
Health Promotion
Current initiatives
- Helping early years services, schools and workplaces to become health promoting settings through the Victorian Government’s Achievement Program
- Promoting accessible healthy food through our Healthy Catering Handbook, Healthy Butchers Initiative and Healthy BBQ Kit
- Creating local networks and supporting school canteens, pool kiosks and long day care services to increase the numbers of healthy menu options
- Promoting oral health in early years services through implementing the Smiles 4 Miles program in partnership with the SCHS Dental Program
- Increasing physical activity levels in the community through our annual 10,000 Steps Challenge and working with schools to embed active transport as part of every day practice
- Working with local primary and secondary schools to support the implementation of school breakfast programs through the Mildura Region School Breakfast Partnership
Achievement Program
As a workplace we are recognised for Health Eating (2013), Physical Activity and Movement (2020) and Mental Health and Well-being (2021). One of the biggest changes to our organisation has been our staff health and well-being procedure which is a one-stop shop for all staff to access all resources and opportunities related to their own health and well-being. The Achievement Program is a quality improvement framework coordinated by the Cancer Council Victoria and is based on World Health Organization (WHO)’s best practice standards. To learn more visit: https://www.achievementprogram.health.vic.gov.au/workplaces
Our Service
Our skilled health promotion workforce, together with local partnerships, encourage healthy eating and physical activity; to reduce obesity, smoking and harmful alcohol use. We aim to create long-term change and improve the health of local people. We do this through working together to make healthy living the easy choice, wherever someone is within our community: at home, at work, at school, at the shops or in the park.
Eligibility
Health Promotion covers the entire Mildura Rural City Council municipality, including outlying areas such as Lake Cullulleraine, Ouyen and Murrayville.
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