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Go for your life
Health check for Hamilton workplaces
Challenging the Stereotypes is a project delivering the messages of the ’Go for your life’ initiative. It is funded by the Department of Human Services and the Department of Planning and Community Development. The project is a partnership between Western District Health Service, Southern Grampians & Glenelg Primary Care Partnership (SGGPCP) and Southern Grampians Shire.
Thirteen Hamilton workplaces are set to become much healthier places in 2008.
Workplaces including Southern Grampians Adult Education, Bendigo Bank and the Southern Grampians Shire Council are participating in a ‘Go for your life’ initiative aimed at getting workers more active and eating healthier foods as part of a local project Challenging the Stereotypes.
Each workplace has been funded for initiatives designed to match their individual work environments to encourage as many workers to participate as possible.
Some of the initiatives include personal training sessions, changing food practices in the workplace, providing water bottles and water stations, starting walking groups, developing a vegetable garden for staff and their families and regular education sessions for staff and their families.
The initial phase of the 3-year project began in early February, 2008.
Initially, workers were provided with an information session and surveyed about their current physical activity and eating habits. They also had their weight measured to provide a baseline measurement and will be remeasured and resurveyed in six months time to determine the effectiveness of the initiatives.
Workplaces involved in the initial year of the project are Southern Grampians Shire Council, RMIT University, Centrelink, Hunter Newns/Southern Finance, CITS, WHK Mahoney Archer, Timbercorp, Bendigo Bank, Glenelg Hopkins CMA, SGAE, IGA Supermarket, Iluka, WDHS Penshurst Campus.
The project is also looking at increasing participation in physical activity and healthy eating in smaller communities such as Penshurst. A small group based at Penshurst and District health Service has started walking and are looking at introducing healthy eating in the workplace and also in the community.
In addition to the above initiatives, the project is aiming to increase physical activity and healthy eating in the community generally and has already assisted with the commencement of a Touch Football Competition for Hamilton, a Family Fun Run, implementation of Walk to Work day and is currently investigating Polewalking as an additional community activity to encourage people to get out and about.
For further details on the local project please contact Fran Patterson on 5551 4859.
For further details on the ‘Go for your life’ initiative and activities please go to www.goforyourlife.vic.gov.au.
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