The Foundation module provides the basic building blocks to help develop staff capabilities and skills in children and young people led engagement and planning. 

Leading the Way – Engaging Young Voices for Change 

This module enables councils to build capacity and capability in engaging with and empowering children and young people to share their experiences to create a healthier future. The module provides practical ways to engage and co-design with children and young people in council activities. 

Impact Stream: 

Better solutions shaped by children and young people 

 

The Core modules provide implementation guidance for councils in 3 priority areas, to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people. 

These modules focus on creating better access to healthy food and drink options, increasing active opportunities and building more connected and supportive communities. 

Building Active Communities  

This module incorporates a range of activities, processes, and changes that councils can make to increase children and young people’s physical activity in the community. This includes activities on designing neighbourhoods that promote physical activity and running programs that increase participation by children and young people who face greater barriers. 

Impact Streams: 

• Increasing active travel opportunities to and from school (previously known as Walk to School)
• Including walking and bike riding in council strategies  
• Creating opportunities for all Victorians to be active  
• Including gender equity in council sport and recreation policy 
• Empowering and enabling women to get active through local promotion of This Girl Can – Victoria 

Creating Connected and Supportive Communities 

This module enables councils to deliver benefits to and reduce barriers for several groups and communities who usually face barriers to participation as well as designing programs and policies that promote mental wellbeing. 

Impact Streams: 

• Co-designing with young people for better community wellbeing 
• Building proud and inclusive communities 
• Addressing social determinants of mental wellbeing 

Building Better Food Systems for Healthier Communities 

This module will strengthen the capacity of councils to create local and healthy food systems and give children and young people opportunities to actively engage in the issues and solutions. 

Impact Streams: 

• Creating thriving local food systems 
• Embedding healthy food and drink options in council owned and operated places 
• Using healthy rewards and sponsorships in community activities 
• Enabling healthy partnerships 

The Stretch modules are best suited for councils ready to expand into broader health and wellbeing topics and create holistic and engaging community environments.   

These modules focus on creating stronger preventative measures and reducing harm in relation to alcohol and tobacco products, while also focusing on promoting creativity and the arts at a local level. 

Strengthening Tobacco Control at a Local Level 

This module will strengthen the capacity of local councils to increase smokefree environments in their communities and see improvements across a broad range of health outcomes.  

Impact Stream: 

Adopting tobacco control actions to protect children and young people 

Increasing Alcohol Harm Prevention at a Local Level

This module will strengthen the capacity of local councils to prevent and minimise alcohol-related harm, creating safer and healthier communities in their municipalities. This module is to be used in conjunction with ‘The Art of Community Alcohol Management: What local government can do to prevent and minimise alcohol-related harm’.

Impact Stream:

Adopting alcohol harm prevention actions to protect children and young people

Promoting Everyday Creativity at a Local Level

This module will support councils to increase opportunities to engage children and young people in creative activities that also promote their health and wellbeing.

Impact Streams:

• Increasing equity in creative strategies
• Embracing opportunities for children to inform creative programs
• Improving opportunities for young people to lead creative programs