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Health Futures Australia

Locality: Ballarat, Victoria

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24.01.2022 This week is Nutrition Australia's national nutrition week! This year the focus is on increasing vegetable consumption through presenting an exclusive collection of vegetable-focused recipes, veg tips and information to inspire you to get more veg in your day. Not only is a predominantly plant based diet great for your health by helping to prevent chronic disease, but it's incredibly beneficial to our planet's health too. ... We'd love to know - do you try for 5 servings of veg each day?and what's your favourite veg recipe? We're looking forward to trying out this recipe by Melanie Lionello - http://melanielionello.com//roasted-pumpkin-salad-with-goa For more information and tips on achieving your 5 serves of vegetables per day check out - https://www.tryfor5.org.au To read about HFA's efforts to increase vegetable consumption in the Hepburn Shire: www.healthfutures.org.au/SHIFT Image credit: Nutition Australia #healthfuturesaustralia #riseprevention

23.01.2022 Yesterday, 19th November, was International Social Enterprise Day. In Australia the social enterprise movement is fast gaining momentum. We host incredible social entrepreneurs who are committed to making wellbeing and social impact to our Australian communities. You can support the health and wellbeing of our communities by supporting our social enterprises via shopping #forgood. Health Futures Australia’s own social enterprise, SHIFT, has some exciting BIG developments to ...share soon. Stay tuned. In the meantime check out more about SHIFT here https://healthfutures.org.au/shift/ #healthfuturesaustralia #shifthepburn

19.01.2022 HFA welcomes Judy Tran. Judy Tran is in her final year of studying a Master of Health Economics at Deakin University. Judy's Master project will support the further development of the SHIFT social enterprise. Judy is excited to be involved in a community project and is looking forward to applying a health economic lens to the circular economy being developed in Hepburn Shire. To find out more about the SHIFT social enterprise https://lnkd.in/gC_uziq... #circulareconomy #deakinuniversity #SHIFThepburn #healtheconomics #environment #healthylunch #health #wellbeing #community #economics #employment #supportourfarmers #fairprices #localproduce

18.01.2022 Thanks to our supporting partner Rijk Zwaan Australia for the Health Futures team immersion at their field day into future sustainable agriculture with local farmers, many of whom supply to our SHIFT Healthy Lunch Kitchen. Robotics, drones, digital ag - paint an amazing farming future picture. Many partners are 'sharing a healthy future' thanks to #rijkzwaan #lovemysalad #prevention

18.01.2022 This morning Shelley had the pleasure of visiting the incredible community wellbeing hub - Clunes Neighbourhood House. Shelley dropped off some Design and Discovery materials ready for the Clunes Wellbeing Lab participants (adhering to Covid safety measures, of course!) where Health Futures Australia will run a virtual Human Centred Design and Discovery Masterclass as part of a 3 month #wellbeingcommunity innovation lab sprint. Stewarded by Health Futures Australia, the Clun...es Welbeing Lab have journeyed and learned about empathy based action, immersed in deep community insights, are soon to head off on perspective learning journeys and then reconvene to prototype #thrivingtogether opportunities for a healthy and well future for Clunes, Victoria. An exciting journey that we look forward to keeping you up to date on! If you'd like to know more about the incredible work of Clunes Neighbourhood House - - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVqiLV64qI&feature=youtu.be - https://www.clunesnh.org #healthfuturesaustralia #riseprevention

17.01.2022 Design thinking for wellbeing communities. Since September 2020, Health Futures Australia has worked with the Clunes Wellbeing Lab to reimagine the health and wellbeing for the Central Victorian town. The Lab has journeyed deep into the discovery and human-centred design process. Lana De Kort, Manager of the Clunes Neighbourhood House writes about her experience and takeaway design thinking insights- "... the freedom to think about the big (and little) problems that impac...t on our lives" https://www.clunesnh.org//freedom-to-tackle-the-big-proble If you or your organisation are interested in Health Futures Australia's consultancy programs, masterclasses or wellbeing community innovation labs: www.healthfutures.org.au #healthfuturesaustralia #designthinking

16.01.2022 From Bacchus Marsh to Clunes, and in Ballarat and Creswick we are co-creating a Wellbeing Script and the system to support it. In our project with the Central Highlands Association of Neighbourhood Houses we first conducted in-depth interviews, from this we produced a ‘Synthesis of perspectives’, and have just ran 4 workshops with GPs, specialists, medical students, and Neighbourhood House Coordinators to generate ideas as to how might we" link GPs and Neighbourhood Houses and set up sustainable collaboration and referral pathway. Already GPs are visiting Neighbourhood Houses and vice versa, such a collaborative project exciting stuff! #socialprescribing Jane Grimwood

16.01.2022 A great reminder - ‘The single greatest asset we have as a society is our health, #prevention #PreventionIsBetterThanCure

16.01.2022 The time is now for health and wellbeing. We must do better for our communities, society and planet. Join our conversation at: https://lnkd.in/gwJTBdd To find out more about more about Health Futures Australia's health and wellbeing action: https://lnkd.in/gRSQXh5... #riseprevention #healthfuturesaustralia #wellbeing #circulareconomy #humancentreddesign #prevention #health #empathy #disruption #climate

15.01.2022 Have you met our Board and our team? We are a fast growing, start-up, health promotion charity. And there's been a few changes of late - some new smiling faces have joined the HFA team. We're excited to share our full HFA team of fired-up prevention changemakers #riseprevention. We're still headed by public and population health leaders Dr Shelley Bowen and Professor Rob Moodie AM and still leading the thinking in reimagining investment in prevention and redesigning systems... for wellbeing. Our small (but growing!) agile team brings vast experience and knowledge gained globally in public and population health policy, law, finance, strategy, innovation, collaboration, arts, communication and systems design thinking. We bring deep understanding from working within the system to pursuing our big vision to lead transformational system change and our passion for creating the future we want to see. join us for a conversation at [email protected] #healthfuturesaustralia #shifthepburn

14.01.2022 Want to follow our work with the Central Highlands Association of Neighbourhood House (CHANH) on the Wellbeing Scripts System Building initiative? Click the link below to the CHANH website and you can register your interest for quarterly updates What is the Wellbeing Scripts Initiative? drawing on a social innovation approach deeply rooted in Human Centred Design-HFA and CHANH are starting with an agile, people first focus, to strengthen and connect existing community and hea...lth resources through a social prescription light approach. More exciting news to come!! #healthfuturesaustralia #wellbeingscripts #CHANH https://www.chanh.org.au/?page_id=495

13.01.2022 Through our work partnering with Central Highlands Association of Neighbourhood Houses (CHANH) on the Wellbeing Script System Building Initiative, we've learned that our incredible community wellbeing assets - Neighbourhood Houses play a pivotal wellbeing and wellbeing promotion role in our communities. But they remain a mystery for many of us! Have you ever wondered what Neighbourhood Houses offer for our communities? Neighbourhood houses are incredible wellbeing promoters ...and hubs in our communities. They bring people together to connect, learn and contribute to their local community through social, educational, recreational and support activities. They welcome everyone - all ages, abilities and walks of life to create opportunities to enrich lives through connections some might not otherwise make. We welcome you to take a look at the beautiful life enriching work of the CHANH happening in the Central Highlands of Vic region - https://lnkd.in/gmCtrPN If you'd like to know more about Neighbourhood House Victoria and how your organisation might be able to utilise their programs and offerings - https://www.nhvic.org.au/ #wellbeingscript #healthfuturesaustralia #riseprevention #neighbourhoodhouse #CHANH #socialprescription #wellbeingcommunity #socialconnection #welcome

10.01.2022 We were at Clunes in Central Victoria today working with the amazing leaders from Neighbourhood Houses - Lana de Kort and Jane Grimwood, joined by Dr Kevin Lee - Endocrinologist and extraordinary natural social prescriber. We ideated to inform the emerging Wellbeing Scripts initiative - connecting GPs and Neighbourhood Houses. Lana, Kevin and the Clunes Community are creatives, leaders, Changemakers, innovators - already experimenting and trailblazing with exciting initiatives with their community like Weight off your shoulders we Clunes - a well-being community.

07.01.2022 Shelley and Kate spent the morning with the Clunes Wellbeing Lab (in person!!) exploring and re-imagining what health and wellbeing may look like for their community. It was so energising to finally put down the screens and see each other for the first time (in a covid-safe manner) despite working together since September. This morning the lab explored, amongst many things, the concept of wellbeing frameworks and how these might influence the future of Clunes' health and wellbeing future. Participants had space to reflect on their own personal journeys - a powerful opportunity to realise the potential of "what might be possible". Clunes Wellbeing Lab is a truely impressive cohort of community wellbeing intrapreneurs who are ready to #riseprevention. Watch this space!! Clunes Neighbourhood House

05.01.2022 Our friends at Firefly Innovations are co-hosting alongside MIT Solve a virtual Solveathon in December to break the silence around challenges associated with #mentalhealth, #loneliness, and #substanceuse. So, whether you're an innovator or a contributor, apply now and join a team to source, generate, and refine innovative entrepreneurial solutions. APPLICATIONS OPEN TODAY: https://lnkd.in/drWReat #publichealthinnovation #fireflyinnovations #MITSolve #solveathon #riseprevention #innovation #wellbeing

04.01.2022 At Health Futures Australia, we are dedicated to ensuring that all children and students have access to nutritious, delicious and convenient meals at school through our "SHIFT : Healthy Lunch Kitchen" project. With school returning next week, and for the days when you're doing the lunch planning and prep work, don’t forget the importance of nutritious, healthy school lunches for our growing children. The Better Health Channel has some quick tips to keep in mind when preparing... your child’s next lunchbox! Check them out here: https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au//healthy-eating-school #healthylunchkitchen #healthyeating

03.01.2022 Thank you to Elise Bennett of STREAT Social Enterprise for hosting the incredibly insightful virtual Learning Journey for the #SHIFTHepburn team. You spoke with incredible passion and knowledge about STREAT’s 10 year journey and of the incredible importantance social enterprise holds in our current landscape. We have walked away buzzing from your energy, passion, shared learnings and insights to help in our goal of powering healthy sustainable wellbeing communities. STREAT’...s story started in 2010 with two small food carts in Federation Square and a class of nine trainees. STREAT now supports seven Melbourne based businesses including cafes, catering and coffee roasting businesses which provide venues to support the young people. The enterprise’s vision is to stop youth homelessness and disadvantage, one mouthful at a time. They aim to provide a sense of connection, safety and belonging to our young people so they can achieve holistic long-term wellbeing. STREAT tackles the problem of youth disadvantage by using its hospitality businesses to offer a supported pathway from the street to a sustainable livelihood through highly supported training and employment pathways in hospitality and horticulture Wondering how you can help? Get food delivered to your door delicious bread, coffee, vegetable boxes, salads and more https://catering.streat.com.au/

02.01.2022 It is World Obesity Day today sending a message we’re working towards building happier, healthier and longer lives for everybody. When the communities of the Hepburn Shire in Victoria were asked about tackling obesity- through healthy eating and physical activity, they came up with an approach to create a healthy and sustainable food system called SHIFT Sustainable Healthy Integrated Food Towns. It is a big and bold concept to turn the food system around to one that is lo...cal, focused on children and young people, and their educational and social health and wellbeing, and one that respects the Council declared climate emergency. This is complexity at its very best matched with a ‘how might we’ and ‘we can’ spirit healthy eating and physical activity measures were elevated into a powerful prototype of a circular economy for healthy food for children and youth. The SHIFT Healthy Lunch Kitchen, our first part of the SHIFT enterprise, commenced this week in partnership with the Daylesford Primary School in Central Victoria, a school with over 260 children and a big vision to lead the way on nutritious school lunches. A vision we hope spreads like crazy, just imagine serving up lashings of local veg into children’s diets each day! Already we have created jobs, set up supply chains with local farmers, and have a nutritious menu being ordered furiously by children and staff at the school. ‘We can’ SHIFT food systems in our communities. #prevention #healthylunchkitchen #shifthepburn #WorldObesityDay #obesitycollective