Have your say on mental health-related stigma and discrimination
As many people know through personal experience, stigma and discrimination can have significant negative impacts for those with personal lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma, suicidality and distress, as well as for carers, family, friends and others around them. As part of the national mental health reform agenda, the National Mental Health Commission has been
Transport support for country patients
St Vincent’s Clinic’s Open Support program is offering transport help to people from rural and regional areas who need to travel to Sydney for medical care. In a bid to take away some of the stress of navigating the city, Open Support offers a free-of-charge to-and-from transport service between city accommodation and Sydney Airport, or Central Station and bus
Applications open for Active Ageing grants
People aged 60 and over in the Northern Rivers will soon have more options to help them stay fit, with applications now open for the ‘Active Ageing’ grants program. Active Ageing grants are now available to support exercise providers and fitness leaders to provide low-cost exercise programs for people over the age of 60 in
New website helps you find the right language resources
Find a Translation is a free multilingual search engine website for translation resources. Its purpose is to make it easy to find free trusted content in many different languages. Find a Translation does not create the information you find on the website, but enables you to search for information in your preferred language and display
Office hours for the holiday season
From all of us at from Healthy North Coast, we wish you a safe and peaceful holiday season. Our offices will be closed from 5pm on Friday 23 December 2022 and will reopen at 9am on Monday 9 January 2023. For any enquiries, you can still reach us by email on contact@hnc.org.au, which will be monitored throughout
Go4Fun supports families to stay active, eat well and live a healthy life
The Go4Fun program is now open to children on the North Coast aged between seven to 13 who are above a healthy weight, and their families. The free program involves children and their families attending a two-hour, after-school session once a week, over 10 weeks. The sessions are run by trained health and community professionals
First 2000 Days Webinar Series: Self-regulation, physical activity and screen time
The 13th session of the First 2000 Days Webinar Series will focus on the way in which physical activity can help to support healthy growth and development in children. It will also discuss the importance of reducing screen time for long term health and wellbeing. It will focus on building your knowledge of programs in
Prepare for the future at Resilient Communities workshops
OzGREEN’s ‘Resilient Communities’ is an empowering program bringing communities together to take action, develop disaster preparedness and create more sustainable and resilient homes and lifestyles. As part of the program, OzGREEN will host two community landscape preparedness days – at Kyogle from 9:30am – 4:00pm on Saturday, 12 November and at Evans Head on Sunday,
Quit smoking: First 2000 Days webinar series
The 12th session of the First 2000 Days Webinar Series aims to provide you with the understanding and confidence to support patients or clients to consider stopping smoking, or help you to assist someone who is on their journey to become smoke free. Registration is essential to attend the workshop. To register, visit the Blue Sky
New support service for communities impacted by flooding
The not-for-profit organisation Social Futures is delivering a new support service – Recovery Connect – for individuals and communities impacted by this year’s floods. Social Futures Chief Executive Tony Davies said the aim of Recovery Connect is to link people to all the services they need. ‘At Recovery Connect you will meet your “recovery linker”,
Go4Fun: supporting families to stay active, eat well and live a healthy life
Go4Fun is a free after school program for children aged 7 to 13 who are above a healthy weight, and their families. Term 4 programs are starting soon and registrations for children aged between 7 and 13 who are above a healthy weight are now being taken. Contact 1800 780 900 or visit www.go4fun.com.au to register.
Northern NSW set to benefit from local healthy lifestyle initiatives
People across Northern NSW are to benefit from a grants scheme that will see a number of schools, community groups and organisations receive up to $5,000 for initiatives to support them in promoting a healthy lifestyle. The ‘Healthy and Well’ grants scheme, which opened on 19 September, supports community groups to launch or grow initiatives
