Local community campaigns to promote better Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

• Reach:

  National

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

This program enables Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to run locally-driven health promotion projects to help people make healthy lifestyle choices and reduce the risk of chronic disease. It is one of 14 measures under the Indigenous chronic disease package; part of the Australian Government's contribution to the Council of Australian Government's (COAG) Closing the Gap targets.

The Local community campaigns program aims to:

• raise awareness that conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and stroke are not inevitable and may be prevented
• promote a change to a healthier lifestyle to help prevent these conditions and improve the health of those who already have one
• raise awareness of how regular check ups from a doctor, nurse and/or health worker can help prevent and manage illness

The Local community campaigns grant funding has been introduced to provide funding for communities who wish to implement a Local community campaign in their area. The Department has engaged communications consultants Cox Inall Ridgeway to provide national support to communities, and to assist applicants with the development and submission of grant applications.

Contacts

Cox Inall Ridgeway
Freecall: 1800 661 961
Email: livelonger@coxinallridgeway.com.au

Related publications

Live Longer! Community health action pack: a practical guide to health promotion planning with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (2011)

Get activeEat good tuckerLive longer!

This Community health action pack can be used by anyone who wants to run a health promotion project to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' health and wellbeing.

This may include:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and community workers
• health professionals
• Elders, community leaders and community organisations.

The pack is designed to be flexible so that communities and organisations can use it to suit their own needs. It includes templates, examples, checklists and tips to help with planning a health promotion project.

The pack has been developed as part of the Local community campaigns to promote better Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health program, a measure under the Australian Government's Indigenous chronic disease package. However, it is not limited to those taking part in the Local community campaigns program and has been designed with broad use in mind.

Adapted from Department of Health and Ageing

• Links
• View resource: Community Health Action Pack
• View resource: Live Longer! Community health action pack: a practical guide to health promotion planning with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (PDF - 43.5 MB)
• View website: Get active. Eat good tucker. Live longer!

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• View information: Local community campaigns to promote better Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
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