Health Promotion

Central Coast Local Health District NSW

Live Life Well @ School

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

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Making healthy choices easier choices

Parents and carers are pivotal, but who supports the families? We do!  Refresh –  kids & families is here to provide information and resources for making healthy choices easier choices.

In the modern environment, where processed foods are plentiful and screens are surplus, families are faced with many challenges when reinforcing healthy choices for life. Nurturing children’s health is a community effort.

Our Service works within different community settings making it easier for  healthy choices to be easier choices.

Please click on images below for more information . . .

Beach Scavenger Hunt

New year – is your goal to get healthy?

Your free NSW Health service can help provide you with the support and motivation you need to reach your goals – eat healthy, get active, achieve a healthy weight, reduce alcohol, be healthy in pregnancy.  We also provide tools and calculators to help you on your Get Healthy journey to plan and track your progress.

Get Healthy drink less alcohol

What Central Coast families say about Go4Fun

‘We loved Go4Fun. My kids really looked forward to it every week.’ Kelly

 ‘My job as his mother became much easier due to this program.’ Inga

 ‘It has become a life and health change for my entire family.’ Samantha

Kickstart 2020 by getting healthy at work!

Get Healthy at Work is a NSW Government service that aims to help improve the health of working adults.

It focuses on smoking, healthy eating, physical activity, active travel, alcohol consumption, mental wellbeing.

 

You don’t need to try to

Quit Smoking on your own.

 

Quitline logo

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Refresh – Kids & Families

Making it easier for healthy choices to be easier choices

Parents and carers are pivotal, but who supports the families? We do!

In the modern environment, where processed foods are plentiful and screens are surplus, families are faced with many challenges when reinforcing healthy habits for life. Nurturing children’s health is a community effort.

Our Service works within different community settings to make it easier for  healthy choices to be easier choices.

Please click on images below for more information . . .

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Hosting a teenage party?

Make your party safe.

Teenage party

 

Finish 2019 strong by going active to work!

Central Coast Go Active 2 Work Day – Third Wednesday every month 

18 December 2019

Register hereGo active to work

 

Make the end 2019 the start of a healthier you

– Get healthy at work!

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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.

PDHPE Workshops

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Central Coast Health Promotion would like to invite you to a special PDHPE Network workshop.

The workshop will be held at Niagara Park Public School on Thursday 27th of February starting at 4:00pm.

At this terms workshop Sport NSW Disability Inclusion Manager Murray Elbourn will be presenting their Disability Inclusion Program.

The intent of the program is to educate those who are teaching or coaching participants with a range of disabilities and those who have not had the training to understand the more in depth aspects of the disability spectrum or how to adapt rules and equipment for Physical Activity and therefore may lack confidence in adapting their teaching practices.

Registration opens at 3:30pm for a 4:00pm start, a light afternoon tea will be provided.

This workshop will be perfect for teachers who are looking to learn new skills or expand their existing knowledge base.

Through this terms workshop you will:

  • Improved education in working with inclusion programs for physical, sensory and intellectual participants.
  • Education around rule adaptions and equipment to provide a better sporting experience.
  • Learn how to significantly improved sporting experiences for the participants as their needs are catered for and their enjoyment of the sport increases.
  • Higher participation numbers of participants with a disability in main stream sporting opportunities.
  • Improved health and wellbeing from participation