Live longer! mobile training van

• Reach:

  SA

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

Aboriginal training organisation Tauondi College, with project partners the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia and South Australia Health, has set up a Live longer! mobile training van project which aims to help prevent chronic disease in Indigenous communities across South Australia by providing free two-day training courses in healthy eating, nutrition and horticulture. The caravan will be visiting 21 Indigenous communities by June 2013.

Training graduates will be encouraged to link in with their local Aboriginal community controlled health service to receive ongoing health checks, healthy lifestyle advice and support. They will also work together to create a cookbook which will contain traditional and contemporary recipes that are healthy, practical to make and use locally available ingredients. Graduates can compete to have their recipes included in the cookbook by submitting their recipes to a nutritionist who will make the selection.

Abstract adapted from Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia website

Contacts

Tadashi Nakamura
Tauondi College
1 Lipson Street
Port Adelaide SA 5015
Ph: (08) 8240 0300
Email: tnakamura@tauondi.sa.edu.au

Links

• View information: Partnership has the right ingredients for Aboriginal health
• View news item: Caravan of fun to spread the word on good health
• View website: Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia
• View website: South Australia Health
• View website: Tauondi College