Health Promotion

Central Coast Local Health District NSW

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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

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

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What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder ?
(FASD)

FASD is a diagnostic term for severe neurodevelopmental impairments (you may see these as difficulties with physical activities, language, memory, learning and behaviour) that result from brain damage caused by alcohol exposure before birth.

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Find more about FASD

Make Their Meals Count

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Make Their Meals Count

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Make Their Meals Count is a pictorial resource for families of children aged 4–8 years.

Using photos of meals and snacks, it shows how to feed a child over the day using healthy foods. The photographs are a guide to the type of food you can serve and how much. The food and meals can be eaten by the whole family.

Meals and snacks were planned by Central Coast Local Health District dietitians to meet the nutrient needs of a 4–8-year-old child, based on the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating.

Sample meals over four days have been provided.

Click on the picture to download an A3 poster or here for A4 print version.

Top tips to make their meals count

  • When you’re preparing these meals at home, remember, it’s good to involve children – whether it’s washing veggies, chopping where age appropriate, or setting the table.
  • Try to eat meals together as a family at the table, not in front of the TV or other screens.
  • If you don’t have or like some vegetables, no worries, you can swap them for ones you do.
  • Choose reduced salt or no added salt varieties of things like tomato paste, BBQ sauce and canned vegetables, where possible.
  • Choose reduced fat varieties of dairy products (milks, cheeses and yoghurts) for children over two years of age.
  • Choose wholegrain or wholemeal varieties of breads, rice and pasta, where possible.
  • Tap water and reduced fat milk are the recommended drinks for children to accompany the meals.

 

The Magic Lunchbox

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Mango and Sprint are preparing for ‘big school’.
Grandma comes to visit and gives them a lunchbox… but it’s no ordinary lunchbox!

 

The Magic Lunchbox is a captivating, fun story about packing a healthy lunchbox, especially for children in their transition to ‘big’ school.

Central Coast author Angela Barrett and illustrator David Walsh have created a delightful storybook to inspire and delight children in the 4 to 6-year age group. In the story, Grandma enlists the help of a magic lunchbox to show Mango and Sprint which foods to pack for school. It supports children of this age group to understand everyday healthy food choices and “the magic made, when you put good food inside.”

You can read the storybook at home or in the classroom. You can now also watch the new video above which brings this book to life through a magical, animated storytelling! 

Download the storybook and lunchbox poster by clicking the pictures below.

The Magic Lunchbox storybook
The Magic Lunchbox Poster

 

Additionally, resources have been developed to support primary school teachers and early childhood educators as part of the Live Life Well @ School and Munch & Move programs respectively. These free resources were developed with the support of Central Coast primary schools and early childhood education and care services, as well as the Families NSW Transition to School Projects Coordinator, Central Coast.

You can access these resources below:

More healthy lunchbox information

Weighing up your lunch interactive game

Cancer Council NSW interactive healthy lunchbox builder

Click here to give us your feedback on The Magic Lunchbox video!

Go Active2Work

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Walking, cycling and catching public transport to work (using active transport) is good for you, your workplace, our region and our planet. Active transport is the healthier, happier, greener, and in many cases (certainly for short trips) the easier, faster and cheaper way to go.

Get some of the physical activity you need to maintain and improve your health by choosing to ‘go active to work’ as often as possible. Join other Coasties in Central Coast Go Active 2 Work Day – Third Wednesday every month (or whenever you can)!

Resources

Go Active 2 Work 2020-2021 Calendar/Log Sheet

Poster

To join the GA2W community, receive a GA2W pack and the monthly GA2W e-newsletter, please click to complete registration.

Check these out

Bicycle NSW

Membership offers more than just worldwide bicycle riders insurance, it opens up a world of benefits. Members join a broad community of bike riders, all kinds of riders from commuters to families, from hill climbers to social riders; we welcome everyone to join us and our affiliated BUGs. For a 15% discount use code:  healthcc

Transport NSW

Walking and cycling are environmentally-friendly, low-cost ways of getting around.

In A handbook for bicycle riders you’ll find valuable tips on road safety, bicycle maintenance, road rules and the legal aspects of riding your bicycle.

  • Transport for NSW – Bike sheds and lockers
  • Service NSW – Register to access a Transport for NSW bike shed
  • Service NSW – Apply to rent a Transport for NSW bike locker

World Bicycle Day

3 June

NSW Bike Week

NSW Bike Week held in September each year (dates for 2020 TBA).

Diabetes Australia

Walk to Work Day October

National Ride2Work Day

October

Get Healthy

at Work

NSW Biketober Business Challenge

Walking for Pleasure

Get fit and make walking a regular part of your lifestyle with Sport and Recreation’s FREE Walking for Pleasure program.

Join Heart Foundation Walking and take positive steps to help reduce stress, have a healthier body, build stronger relationships, and most of all, be happy.

Central Coast Council

Report a Problem eg Footpath, shared path, bike lane obstruction.