An Indigenous health promotion group operating on the Sunshine Coast and in the Gympie area is offering places in a 12-week program to make changes towards a healthy lifestyle.
Natasha Hawkins, Project Officer of the “Living Strong” program offered by the North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health (NCACCH) writes that the program is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 18 years and over.
“Living Strong” will provide all participants with a variety of fun activities and specialist workshops to give you some great tips to help you feel and look good. Living Strong will also provide fun competition and prizes for participants involved. If you are 18 and over looking for a change in your life for the better then come on and start “Living Strong” with NCACCH life modification program,” she writes.
Living Strong is about helping people to make long term lifestyle changes, like choosing healthier food and drinks and being more physically active.
What does Living Strong cover?
Living Strong runs over 12 weeks and includes a series of fortnightly workshops, physical activity demonstrations, walking groups and a health screening at the beginning and at the end of the program. At the screenings you will have your blood pressure, waist, weight and height measured. Living Strong is not a diet program – it is about having a healthy lifestyle.
In the workshops, you will learn about:
• healthier food and drink choices
• healthier cooking
• ways to become more active
• preventing diabetes
•improving self esteem
• ways to make and keep going with healthy lifestyle changes
• reading food labels
• how to spend your food money better
Contact Natasha:
Email: nhawkins@northcoast.net.au
Website: www.ncacch.org.au
Main Office:
Suite 15/27 Evans St MAROOCHYDORE Q 4558
PO BOX 479 COTTON TREE Q 4558
Phone: 5443 3599
Fax: 5443 8899
Gympie:
Shop 3, 56 River Rd Gympie
Phone: 5483 6511
Fax: 5483 6322
NCACCH “Strives for the improvement of the general health and well-being of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population residing in the Sunshine Coast and Gympie regions by assisting them to obtain free and immediate access to health providers of their choice.”
NCACCH is an Aboriginal community controlled health service located at Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
NCACCH provides health services to the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community members residing in the Sunshine Coast and Gympie region, an area totaling over 7000sq km.
Our core business is to bring the status of Indigenous health up to mainstream standards by providing high quality and accessible primary health services to community members.
