Participation for Health Short Course

VicHealth’s training program 

Since 2004, VicHealth has been delivering a model of training to develop health promotion skills across diverse sectors and settings in the community.  

VicHealth’s Participation for health short course has now been delivered to over 2,000 organisations in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand and has expanded to address a range of health issues including: 

• Preventing violence against women
• Reducing race-based discrimination and supporting diversity for health
• Participation for Health Short Course for executive managers and CEOs

Participation for health short course 

This Short Course is the update of our highly popular Short course for Promoting mental health and wellbeing.

Who can attend? 

This course is designed to improve the skills and capacity of workers from diverse sectors, including education, sport, the arts, crime prevention, health, community and local government.  

What will I learn?

The course aims to increase workers' and organisations' capacity to undertake mental and physical health promotion activity, as well as provide resources and models to enhance evidencebased project planning, implementation and evaluation of activity with specific focus on VicHealth’s Participation for Health Framework. 

Please note this course focuses on capacity building to increase organisational ability to improve communities’ mental and physical health, not on early identification, intervention or treatment of mental and physical illness.

With a specific focus on VicHealth’s Participation for health framework, participants will:

• learn about the factors influencing mental and physical health
• develop skills in planning, evaluating and monitoring mental and physical health activities, and
• receive a range of tools and publications.

All Participation for health short courses up until October 2011 are now fully booked. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list for future Participation for health short courses please email us with your name, company, email address and phone number.

Short courses currently in redevelopment

• Short course for Preventing violence against women (2 days)
• Short course for Reducing race-based discrimination and supporting diversity for health (2 days)
• Supplementary Participation for health short course for executive managers and CEOs (4 hours)
  Please note: This course is for Executive Manager and CEO positions only. It focuses on organisational change to support what staff have learnt within the two-day participation for health short course. This course is designed to be delivered in conjunction with the two-day Participation for health short course.

If you would like to placed on the waiting list for the release for any of these short courses please email us with your name, organisation, email address and phone number and the course you wish to attend.

Would you like to hold a course in your region?

The VicHealth short course is available on a fee-for-service basis. If you would like to discuss organising a course for your organisation, Primary Care Partnership or region, please contact Sarah Posner. 

VicHealth and Deakin University have developed a short course to support individuals to promote mental and physical health. This course is an update of the highly popular Mental Health Promotion Short Course.