Primary Prevention Project – Food Supply Action Plan

• Reach:

  QLD

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Not specified

• Evaluated:

  No

• Time frame:

  1 September 2008 - 30 June 2009

Overview

The Primary prevention project (PPP) food supply action plan aims to increase the evidence base of issues around food supply in urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the greater Brisbane area.

By working with organisations, community groups and government departments to support and deliver programs and trial initiatives that seek to increase food access, the expected outcome is to enhance the health of Brisbane urban Aboriginal and Islander communities.

The primary objective of the project is to implement four strategies that address a multitude of food insecurity risk factors:

• increase the availability of healthy food in the work place;
• support and increase the number of existing healthy lifestyle programs in the community, such as Living strong;
• provide support to member services and community organisations in applying for grants to increase capacity to undertake physical activity and nutrition health promotion activities targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait populations; and
  
• increase the amount of meals being prepared and consumed that incorporate vegetables and fruit in the urban Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander populations of Townsville and the greater Brisbane region.

These strategies will be implemented by several Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service sites in the greater Brisbane urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Contacts

Jo Coutts
Nutrition Coordinator
Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
Ph: (07) 3360 8444
Email: joannacoutts@qaihc.com.au

Links

• View information: Primary Prevention Project – Food Supply Action Plan
• View website: Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council