Health Promotion

Central Coast Local Health District NSW

HEALTH Promotion

Family ACTIVation

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Family ACTIVation is a fun-packed resource to help parents and carers of 5 to 12-year-olds get active with their children.

It’s full of quick and easy games to play at home, in the park, or wherever…

Games that reinforce the fundamental movement skills like throwing, catching, hopping and skipping… the same movement skills being learnt at school.

Family ACTIVation game cards  DOWNLOAD

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At Central Coast Local Health District, the Health Promotion team is always on the look out for GREAT games to get families active.

If you have a game, we would love to hear about it so we can share it with families across the Central Coast.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY GAME

How green is your canteen?

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The Central Coast Environmental Education Network is challenging schools to reduce single use plastic and champion plastic free canteens. Schools that can demonstrate change can win a $50 voucher and will be presented with a plaque for their canteen to show they are the winning school for the term.

Schools can choose what steps they can take, from replacing plastic cutlery with re-usable (or compostable) cutlery, phasing out plastic straws, talking to their suppliers about reducing unnecessary plastic packaging or other alternative plastic reduction actions.

New schools can get involved by completing the online Green Canteen survey (on Rumbalara EEC’s website) and will receive a gift of wooden cutlery or paper straws.
Schools that have already been involved can choose a new action and tell us what you have changed by sending us a photo of the change along with a photo of your actions poster. Please send us an email to inform us of your schools involvement.

Email to [email protected]

How to be involved

1. All schools will receive a “How Green is your Canteen?” poster. Hang your poster near your canteen to show your support.
2. New schools that take the challenge should fill in the survey on the Rumbalara website and will receive free sustainable cutlery or straws.
https://rumbalara-e.schools.nsw.gov.au/green-canteens.html
3. Make some sustainable changes to your canteen and school and tick off the changes on the “Steps to A Green Canteen’ poster.
4. By the end of Term 3 tell us what you have changed by sending us a photo of the change along with a photo of your actions poster and email to
[email protected]
5. A panel will review each schools submission and advise the winner.

Green Canteen project is supported by Rumbalara Environmental Education Centre, Kariong Eco Garden, Community Environment Network, Central Coast Council, Australian Take3 and Cleanaway.

Ready, Set, Submit

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With only 5 months left to until 2020 to implement the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy, which is compulsory for NSW Government Primary and Secondary schools and is also strongly encouraged for Catholic and Independent schools to also implement. Why not join us for a practical workshop aimed at helping canteen managers & staff to work through the Menu Check process.

Bring along your canteen menu, get useful information and by the end of the workshop you will be on your way to submitting your Menu Check application to the NSW Healthy School Canteen Menu Check Service.

Our next Menu Check workshop will be held on September 3rd between 2.30pm and 4.30pm at the Health Promotion Office (Level 1/4 Watt St, Gosford)

If you would like to come along. please complete the RSVP form below.

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If you cannot make it to the workshop and would still like help with submitting a menu check application, please contact Lesley Marshall on 43292057 ([email protected]) or Chad Partridge on 43209716 ([email protected])

 

Alcohol – Liquor License Responses

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The Central Coast Liquor Licence Response project works to reduce harm related excessive alcohol availability. Limiting alcohol availability is a key pillar in reducing alcohol related harm in the National Drug strategy and Health Promotion plays a vital role in implementing this pillar.

Each new liquor licence application or liquor licence amendment must follow a range of processes set out by Liquor & Gaming NSW before being granted. This process includes public consultation and it is at this stage Health Promotion can step it. Health Promotion assesses each application and engages the wider community to determine the overall impact the licence may have. Based on this assessment Health Promotion provides evidence-based recommendations aimed to minimise any potential harm.

Public consultation is not restricted to governing bodies but can also be made on the individual level. The following logo will take you the Liquor & Gaming Application noticeboard where you can search for all local applications and have your say:

Watch these alcohol related harm videos