Stay On Your Feet® Improve Your Health Grants open!
Applications are now open for Improve Your Health grants of up to $5,000 (plus GST) for the delivery of community-based falls prevention projects in Western Australia throughout September-November 2024. Improve Your Health looks at simple changes which can improve a person’s health and wellbeing, focusing on nutrition, cognition, and medication management.
Applications for Improve Your Health grants close at 5 pm Friday, 31 May 2024.
Heart Beat Club: Learn to Save Little Lives
A lifesaving initiative from Royal Life Saving and Kids Alive, Heart Beat Club is an online course in resuscitation and basic first aid for parents and carers of young children – and is being offered for free in the month of May.
Get involved with the Stay On Your Feet® Move Your Body campaign
The Move Your Body campaign focuses on the importance of moving your body to improve balance and posture, strengthen muscles and bones, and improve overall fitness and general well-being.
The Move Your Body campaign will run from 1 March to 31 May 2024. Download the campaign toolkit to get involved!
Kidsafe WA New Resource: Safety Island
Kidsafe WA are launching a new e-learning tool for primary school students to facilitate lessons on safety and injury prevention, with four interactive modules on home, road, play and farm safety.
To stay updated on the launch of Safety Island, subscribe to the contact list below.
Public Health Act Announcement
The new approach to Stage 5 of the Public Health Act 2006 has been announced. From 4 June 2024 stage 5 will be implemented in several phases. Local Governments will be required to prepare local public health plans within 24 months.
The Department of Health and WALGA have partnered to host a webinar discussing the new requirements. For further information visit the Public Health Act webpage.
Anyone Can Save a Life campaign
St John WA and the Road Safety Commission have partnered to highlight the importance of post-crash care in reducing the impact of road crashes. The Anyone Can Save a Life Campaign highlights how anyone can save a life if they understand simple first aid actions. Basic first aid is vital in the first few minutes after a crash and has the potential to prevent 15% of WA road fatalities.
Complete St John WA’s free 15-minute digital first aid course for drivers and road users.
Communicating on climate change and health: Toolkit for health professionals
The World Health Organisation has released a toolkit to support health professionals when communicating on climate change. It aims to help health professionals or health workers understand and communicate about the health impacts of climate change, and how climate action delivers important health benefits.
Multicultural health services directory
The Multicultural health services directory (MHSD) is a compilation of programs and services offered by the Western Australian health system and the community services sector that directly address or are inclusive of health needs of Western Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds.
The Directory is primarily for staff members from the WA health system and other agencies to use as a reference when providing support to people of CaLD backgrounds.
Fatality Free Friday
In the lead up to the National Day of Action for Fatality Free Friday on Friday 31st May 2024, there are many ways for individuals, businesses, schools and community organisations to support the campaign.
We are all responsible for choosing safety to prevent injury, no matter how we use the road. Download free campaign resources.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- 7 May | Tai Chi for Arthritis and Falls Prevention – Instructor Training
- May 8 | Move Your Body with Tai Chi
- May 8 and 15 | Evaluation webinar series
- May 14 | Clinical yarning for injury prevention
- May 16 | City of Mandurah Road Trauma Support Information Session
- May 22 | Steady Steps Forward: Systems Thinking Approach in Fall Prevention for Older Australians
- May 20 – 24 | 17th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health
- May 20 – June 30 | Politics and power for promoting health
- June 5 | Falls Prevention for Older Adults – Evidence-Based Screening and Exercise Strategies
- June 12 | The link between foot health, medications, and falls among older adults
- September 17 – 19 | Australian Public Health Conference 2024