Guides, tools and templates

GUIDES, TOOLS AND TEMPLATES

Pathway to a Healthy Community: a guide for councillors for WA Health, South Metropolitan Region

Resource was designed to encourage local government to better integrate health and wellbeing into their core business.

Heatwave Planning Guide: Development of heatwave plans in local councils in Victoria for the Public Health Unit, Victorian Department of Human Services

A three-part guide designed to assist local councils to develop strategies to respond to heatwaves including background to the impacts of heatwaves, preparing a heatwave plan and a communication strategy.

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Talking Participation Taking Action: A Local Government Guide to Youth Participation for the Tasmanian Office of Children and Youth Affairs

A three-part resource designed to encourage councils to design and implement models of youth participation appropriate to their specific circumstances including Approaches to Youth Participation, Case Studies and Resources and Youth Participation Tools.

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Solving the Puzzle of Integrated Planning: Tools for integrating community wellbeing across local government for the Eastern Metropolitan Region Health Planners Network

Developed to support health promotion officers achieve integrated planning in their councils including a Stakeholder Analysis tool, Working Together tool, Activity Register and workshops tailored to the needs of individual councils.

Walking School Bus: A guide for parents and teachers for VicHealth

A step-by-step web-based guide designed for teachers, parents of school-age children and local government project staff wishing to establish a walking school bus in their area.

A local government guide to effective communication with culturally and linguistically diverse food businesses for the Food Safety Unit of the Department of Human Services

The three-part guide provides support to environmental health officers working in local government to work more effectively and consistently with food businesses operated by people from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds to improve compliance with food safety standards and achieve sustainable change in food safety practice.

Resource guide for planning effective community drug prevention for the Premier’s Drug Council, Victoria

Guide assists local communities in Victoria to develop strategies to prevent drug use.

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Prevention of harm from alcohol consumption in rural and remote communities for the Australian Drug Foundation

Explores strategies for reducing harm from alcohol consumption in rural and remote communities in Victoria based on an issues paper and local responses using regulation, enforcement, advocacy, community programs, social marketing and service provision.

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Victorian Food Safety Templates for the Department of Health Victoria

Based on international research and trialled with the range of food businesses, the templates provide assistance to meet the requirements of food safety legislation.

Local government reducing harm from alcohol consumption for the Australian Drug Foundation

Uses an integrated approach to planning to encourage Victorian councils to reduce harm from alcohol consumption in their local communities; included an issues paper, a newsletter and fact sheets.

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Putting the economic environment to work: Towards planning for health and wellbeing through the economic environment for the Department of Health Victoria, Southern Metropolitan Region

Resource supports understanding and consideration of the economic environment for health in planning for the health and wellbeing of local communities.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Leading the Way: Councils creating healthier communities: for VicHealth

A resource and seminar series designed to encourage Victorian councils to better integrate health and wellbeing into their core business; included presentations and workshops to all 79 Councils.

Click here to see Resource Pack Part 1
Click here to see Resource Pack Part 2

Councillor development workshops for the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV)

A series of workshops for councillors focused on making decisions in complex times. Sessions were delivered at MAV Councillor Development Weekends and as dedicated workshops across Victoria.

Navigating for Health and Wellbeing for the Department of Health Victoria, Southern Metropolitan Region

A resource and professional development project to support understanding and collaboration across local government business units.

Physical Activity Participation for Queensland Health

Workshops conducted in Brisbane, Roma and Charleville.

TRAINING

Growing Enabling Organisations for the Department of Economic Development Tasmania

Training provided business development and business planning workshops, along with follow up one-on-one support, for small to medium sized businesses and community organisations.

ShowSkills Program for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (in partnership with the Federal Council of Agricultural Societies)

Developed and delivered resources and business management training for agricultural show societies around Australia following comprehensive survey of needs and two national pilots.

Click here to see Manual 1
Click here to see Manual 2

Wineskills for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

This resource and training was developed in association with Wine Food Tourism to support business planning and marketing for small and medium sized wineries around Australia and included case studies, templates and financial models.

Food security and Physical activity participation short courses for VicHealth

These short courses, delivered across Victoria to state and local government and the community sector, focused on applying a ‘social determinants of health’ lens to the topic content.