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19 Mar 2021

This Girl Can Week: supporting Victorian women to be active again after COVID

Newly-released VicHealth research suggests that during 2020 and the Coronavirus pandemic, women’s physical activity levels were more severely impacted than men’s, with half of Victorian women exercising less than before Coronavirus and 3 in 4 women stopping sport.

This Girl Can Victoria

08 Feb 2021

VicHealth helping Vic women to get active and socially connect

Thousands more Victorian women, including many from bushfire-affected communities, will have the chance to get active and meet new people in 2021, thanks to $830,000 in new VicHealth funding to expand highly popular social sport programs.

Active Women and Girls

17 Jul 2014

Physical Activity Forum: Jerril Rechter

VicHealth CEO, Jerril Rechter, speaks about VicHealth's new strategic focus in physical activity and sport, and the exciting new funding opportunity - VicHealth Innovation Challange: Physical Activity.

VicHealth's strategic focus

17 Oct 2011

Streets Ahead Evaluation Report 2008-2011

The final report of the three-year VicHealth project highlights the significant gains in awareness of active travel at local government levels and the strategies that helped reduce some barriers, and identifies the changes needed to reduce others.

Independent travel

17 Dec 2008

Streets Ahead: Supporting children to get active in their neighbourhoods

Streets Ahead builds on the learnings from VicHealth’s Walking School Bus program. Inspiration and information for the councils and their communities who are pioneering Streets Ahead and supporting children to get active in their neighbourhoods.

Active travel

27 Mar 2009

"How times have changed" - active transport literature review

There are many studies which report on how children get to and from school and negotiate their neighbourhoods, but very few explore in detail the cultural context in which children’s independent mobility has been curtailed. This paper by Dr Lisa Thomson moves beyond current modes of thinking and explores how this cultural shift has come about.

Active travel

24 Mar 2017

Physical activity, sport and walking: VicHealth’s Investment Plan (2014 to 2018)

To get more Victorians active including through sport and walking, VicHealth’s strategic approach focuses on making physical activity participation part of everyday living, and competitive and social sport.

VicHealth strategy

09 Jun 2011

Everyone Wins – Community sporting clubs

This version aims to assist Victorian community sports clubs to build healthier sporting environments that are more inclusive and welcoming of everyone in their community, particularly women, girls, Aboriginal people and people from culturally diverse communities.

Supporting diversity

24 Jun 2014

Active for Life

Active for Life is an evidence-based resource to help better understand the challenges around children's physical activity, and inspire better practice to integrate more movement in children's daily lives.

Physical activity & children

29 Mar 2014

Healthy Sporting Environments Demonstration Project - Evaluation

The evaluation of VicHealth’s pioneering Healthy Sporting Environments Demonstration Project has given us a better understanding of how health promotion can be weaved through grassroots sports clubs.

Project evaluation

02 Sep 2011

Everyone Wins – State Sporting Associations (SSAs)

This version aims to assist SSAs to build healthier sporting environments that are more inclusive and welcoming of everyone in our community, particularly people with a disability, Indigenous Australians, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and women and girls.

Supporting diversity

29 Sep 2010

PICSAR: Sharing the stories

Since 2007, through its funded organisations, PICSAR has created a diverse range of opportunities for physical activity participation. This has had a very positive impact on promoting and supporting inclusion in the sport and active recreation sector.

Increasing participation