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Hoops 4 Health – using basketball to help close the gap

Jan 162012

16 January 2011

The First Hoops 4 Health Live Longer! Challenges were held in the remote community of Maningrida on 27 October and Darwin on 30 October 2011. With over 300 people attending each event, it was a feast of activity to promote the importance of good health to Live Longer!

AFL stars Darryl White and Raphael Clarke as well as Manuel Dhurrkay from the popular band Saltwater were involved to show their support for Aboriginal health. The official mascot, Hooper surprised participants with a skit on eating good tucker, drinking water and staying active.

Thanks to the team at Hoops 4 Health for sharing their Local Community Campaigns project success – your hard work is helping communities to get active and Live Longer!

You can view footage of the Health 4 Hoops project at: http://youtu.be/5eS5zQwc4DE or visit Hoops 4 Health online at http://www.hoops4health.com.au/

Indigenous Youth Sports Program to improve university enrolments

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Jan 122012

January 12, 2012

Sport program to improve Indigenous University enrolments

While the mercury soared this week, 100 Indigenous young people spent the week sweating it out on the University of Queensland’s St Lucia sports fields to whet their appetite for academic life.

The ‘Indigenous Youth Sports Program’ provides an opportunity for school students to be exposed to university in the hope of encouraging more young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to choose tertiary study when they finish school. Continue reading »

Healthy, happy and safe Christmas

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Dec 202011

20 December 2011

The Live Longer team would like to wish you a healthy, happy, and safe Christmas and New Year holiday season. In 2011, communities across the country have hosted 50 Healthy Community Days and established 38 local grant projects to help their people reduce the risks of chronic disease. We look forward to working with you in 2012 to spread the important message – Get Active, Eat Good Tucker, and Live Longer!

Regional Teams Tackling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Smoking and Chronic Disease

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Dec 132011

13 December 2011

Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon today launched two new tool kits for health workers to tackle the high rates of smoking and chronic disease amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

The Health, Deadly and Strong toolkit for Healthy Lifestyle Workers and Medicines to Help You Stop Smoking – a guide about Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) will be rolled out to a national network of Regional Tackling Smoking and Healthy Lifestyle teams. Continue reading »

Yamba launches new health animations

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Dec 012011

1 December 2011

As part of the Local Community Campaign grant for Yamba’s Playtime, the team at Imparja have been busy preparing a new collection of good health animations. The ‘You Know What’ animations are designed to educate pre-school children with important messages about healthy living. The cute animations and catchy jingles promote the importance of eating well, getting plenty of sleep, doing regular exercise, visiting the doctor and ensuring personal hygiene. Animations will be screened on Imparja Television five times a week throughout the children’s timeslot, with the P Classification “Yamba’s Playtime” television series to be aired nationally on the Nine Network from the 23rd December 2011.

To view the Yamba ‘Wash Your Hands’ animation, click here: Wash Your Hands.

GYC 4 Lyfe project kicks off in Alice

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Nov 232011

23 November 2011

Community flyer promoting the event.

For more than 30 years, the Gap Youth Centre in Alice Springs has been working with their local community to support youth through education and social activities. This year the Gap Youth Centre is also helping to spread the Live Longer! message, raising awareness about the importance of good health.

To kick off the GYC 4 Lyfe project, the team at the Gap Youth Centre recently hosted a family BBQ with more than 150 kids and family members joining in activities, and learning about the programs and facilities on offer. Continue reading »

Live Longer! radio jingle promotes good health in the Torres Strait

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Nov 212011

21 November 2011

As part of the Live Longer! Dance Kombat project, Torres Strait Islander Media Association together with 4MW have developed a series of radio jingles to promote key health messages to communities throughout the Torres Strait. The series focuses on promoting the key healthy behaviours that reduce the risk of chronic disease; getting active, eating well, not smoking and regularly seeing a doctor. Produced in local language as well as English, the catchy tune aims to motivate people to make changes to their lifestyle and Live Longer!

Click here to listen to the jingle: LLRadioJingleTSCreole

Movie takes Men’s Health Message to Cairns, QLD

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Nov 102011

10 November 2011

Important message: Johnathan Link joins Dean Daley-Jones at the Men's Healthy Community Day. Picture: TOM LEE

THERE was a time when indigenous film star Dean Daley-Jones would use his fists to resolve conflict, but now he’s using words to give Aboriginal men hope for the future.

Mr Daley-Jones was in Cairns yesterday to talk to about 150 people at a Men’s Healthy Community Day at Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, where his first feature film Mad Bastards was also shown.

The 40-year-old said that using his new-found high profile to connect with indigenous men was one of the added benefits of starring in the film, which was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Community visits underway for targeted grant projects

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Oct 312011

31 October 2011

The first phase of Local Community Campaigns grant projects are off and running. As we visit each project in October and November, we’re seeing some good examples of what local people are doing to tackle the problem of chronic disease. Continue reading »

Bollon starts to Enjoy Life…

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Oct 312011

31 October 2011

It’s not often that representatives of the Federal Government visit small towns in the bush to meet the local people behind the projects, but that’s exactly what happened last week when the Bollon Aboriginal Corporation for Housing and Community Development (BACHCD) hosted a visit from Susan Parker, Director of the Department of Health and Ageing’s Social Marketing Unit. The Department has recently granted the BACHCD funding of $99,000 to promote healthier lifestyles for the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community over a three year period. Ms Parker was accompanied by Al Harris and Shane Hearn from Cox Inall Ridgeway, the consultancy that has been contracted to run the Local Community Campaign for the government. Continue reading »

Local Community Campaigns Grants Program

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Oct 112011

Grants Guidelines for the Local Community Campaigns to Promote Better Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health programs are now publicly available, following approval by the Minister for Finance in March 2011. Take a look at the Grant Guidelines and start thinking about a Local Community Campaign project for your community. Continue reading »

‘Kombatting’ chronic disease in the Torres Strait, QLD

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Oct 062011

6 October 2011

The Torres Strait Islander community celebrated the benefits of a healthy, outdoor lifestyle at the Live Longer! Healthy Community Day held at Anzac Park, Thursday Island (TI) in early October. Continue reading »

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