Health Promotion

Central Coast Local Health District NSW

Young People

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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.

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Hosting a teenage party? Make your party safe.

Have you ever wondered how much sugar and energy you consume from drinks?

 

The number of teaspoons of sugar consume from sugary drinks a week?

Litres consumed in a year?

Your potential weight gain?

Try this Sugary drink calculator

 

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Tobacco Sales to Minors

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Central Coast Health Promotion Service conducts compliance testing of tobacco retailers as a means of enforcing the ban on sales of cigarettes to under eighteen year olds.

Teen volunteers were first engaged in testing retailer-selling behaviour in 1994. A unique feature of the Central Coast where big reductions in teen smoking occurred between 1996 and 1999 was the emphasis on direct intervention in supply. through conducting sales to minors operations.

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Smoking cessation in financial counselling organisations

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Smoking rates are higher in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. To address this health inequity, Central Coast Health Promotion is in the early stages of working with local financial counsellors to explore ways we can support them in helping their clients stop smoking.

Our aim is to provide training and resources to embed smoking cessation support in financial counsellors’ practice. Given the high cost of cigarettes, supporting financial counselling clients to quit smoking will not only have benefits for their health, but will also reduce financial stress too.