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Kids - 'Go for your life' is supporting local communities to make healthy eating and physical activity a positive, normal and easy part of every child’s day. The initiative is increasing communities’ capacity to create environments supportive of physical activity and healthy eating and the six healthy messages of Kids - 'Go for your life'.

The six healthy messages
The Kids - 'Go for your life' six healthy messages have been selected as key habits to improve the health of Victorian children. Read more...

Creating healthy habits in children requires action from the whole community.

Supporting local communities
Kids – ‘Go for your life’ is initially funding ten local governments to prioritise localised issues and select activities or interventions that suit these communities.

The following local governments have been funded to coordinate Kids – ‘Go for your life’ at the local level:

Kids - ‘Go for your life’ Project Officers?
Kids - ‘Go for your life’ Project Officers are working in each of these local government areas. Their key roles are to:

Work with health professionals, urban, health, social and recreation planners to influence the development of policies that create supportive environments for active and healthy living.
Establish local partnerships and promote the Kids – ‘Go for your life’ Award Program and healthy messages within children’s settings and the broader community.

Together we can help Victorian communities create healthy habits for life.

Support for unfunded areas
Kids - 'Go for your life' also provides support to local governments outside of these funded areas. In fact many unfunded areas have just as much success in implementing the Kids -'Go for your life' program as some funded areas. Health professionals in unfunded areas can obtain all of the resources they need to implement the program for free by registering for the Health professionals'Network. Health professionals are also able to contact the State Team at any time for guidance or advice.

Contact the Healthy Communities State Coordinator or call 1300 739 899.

Useful links

The Heart Foundation – Healthy by Design
VicHealth – Leading the Way
Department of Human Services – Environments for Health
Department of Human Services – Health Promotion.

Acknowledgement

This information has been sourced from Diabetes Australia Victoria & The Cancer Council Victoria.

Last updated: 05/21/2009

'Go for your life' Infoline - 1300 73 98 99