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Building health

26 Nov 2011

Technology, Arts and Social Connection (TASC) program

Information communication technologies provide many new and exciting opportunities for creative initiatives that promote participation, social connection and community engagement, which have positive health and wellbeing outcomes.

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See Beyond Race campaign

Reducing race discrimination

26 Nov 2011

See Beyond Race

See Beyond Race was a community-based social marketing campaign that tackled race-based discrimination by featuring local people from diverse cultural backgrounds and their real-life interests.

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Male and female university students walking together

Violence against women

26 Nov 2011

Action in education settings

Schools are an important setting for promoting equal and respectful relationships.

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Three children walking across the road holding hands

Healthy Communities

18 May 2011

Streets Ahead

The Streets Ahead program was designed to create supportive environments that increase children’s active travel and independent mobility in all aspects of their local community life, not only to and from school.

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Men and women from different cultural background sitting together

Reducing race discrimination

03 Dec 2010

Building Bridges program

There is a long history in Victoria of bringing people from many different cultural backgrounds together through festivals, food and artistic and cultural pursuits.

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Three university students talking together

Partnership

26 Nov 2010

Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre

Based in Melbourne, the Young and Well CRC is a world first collaboration that brings together researchers, not-for-profit organisations, government and industry partners with young people.

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Access to fresh food

26 Nov 2010

Food For All

The accessibility, affordability and sustainability of healthy food options is essential for good health.

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Boy growing vegetables with his father

Healthy eating partnerships

25 Nov 2010

Food Alliance

Food Alliance is one of the key partnerships that VicHealth has supported since 2009. The Food Alliance helps to improve local and state-level food systems.

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VicHealth Research

17 Jun 2010

VicHealth centres of excellence

VicHealth has established Centres of Research and Practice that have been strategic catalysts in new developments in public health research, health policy and health promotion interventions.

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Parents cooking healthy food with their children

Healthy eating partnerships

26 Nov 2009

The Parents’ Voice

The Parents’ Voice is one of the key partnerships that VicHealth has helped establish and foster over the last decade.

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Person walking through a forest

Partnership

26 Nov 2008

Victoria Walks partnership

VicHealth funds Victoria Walks because walking is a great way of increasing physical activity and combating obesity, traffic congestion, pollution and a host of preventable diseases.

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Girl playing in a park

Active travel

05 Jan 2007

Walking School Bus

The Walking School Bus Program (now Walk to School) is a past VicHealth initiative that gave communities a way to get children walking to/from school again.

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