Welcome to 2010
We hope you enjoyed a fabulous break and are now changing up through the gears as the year winds up.
CO-OPS has continued to grow over the summer, a warm congratulations to Emma and her new baby Isla who was born in January, both mum and bub are doing well.
Anthea Ellison has joined CO-OPS as the team's Administrator and Chad Foulkes has joined CO-OPS as the Knowledge Broker, which he says is an odd job title to explain at a BBQ. Essentially his role is to help you help each other and provide assistance to the CO-OPS network. He is also working on the 2009 National Workshop case study booklet, web-forums, these newsletters and is part of the team available to deliver training to you as CO-OPS members.
Regards
Steve Allender
CO-OPS Director
back to top Training - what do you need?
CO-OPS is set to tour the nation delivering training and running workshops in each State and Territory.
Have a look at the initial training topics listed on our website - in the professional development section.
These topics will be delivered by one or more of our specialists in-person, and, we come to you.
Please contact Rebecca Reynolds on 03 5227 8077 or email rebecca.reynolds@deakin.edu.au if you are interested in any of the topics already listed or are keen to learn about something else. We can deliver a range of training to meet your needs and will be putting up a detailed training calendar on our website soon.
If you are wondering what it costs, well it's FREE. So, get in touch!
back to top Obesity Prevention Short Course
The Deakin University WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention together with CO-OPS are running the 5 day
Obesity Prevention Short Course
from June 28th to July 2nd in Geelong, Victoria. Please email
admin@co-ops.net.au
to register your interest and ensure you receive further information.
back to top Case Study Booklet - 2009 National Workshop
As promised at the 2009 CO‐OPS National Workshop and in the December 2009 Edition of this newsletter, CO-OPS has set to work on producing a case study booklet of the 15 presentations and 25 posters presented at the 2009 CO‐OPS National Workshop as well as a number of other case studies which submitted however could not attend the National Workshop. We know many of you could not attend the National Workshop and we have acknowledged the need to collect and collate these valuable experiences in a case study booklet to share amongst participants, those who could not attend and those who have newly discovered CO-OPS.
CO‐OPS has requested that all those who presented and submitted to present at the National Workshop share their stories with you by contributing to the case study booklet. Details on how to obtain a copy of the booklet or a particular case study will be provided in the April newsletter.
back to top National Survey
Some of you may have already heard from Rebecca Reynolds (CO-OPS Research Fellow – Training and Networks) regarding your role in community-based obesity prevention. She is currently trying to find out how many community-based obesity prevention projects there are in Australia; where they are, what they do... a sizeable task! This is an important first step in improving project functioning. A survey is currently being finalised for completion by one representative from each project.
If you haven't yet heard from Rebecca... Maybe you can help? 1. Does your department/organisation carry out a community‐based obesity prevention project(s)? 2. Do you know of any organisation(s) other than yours that are implementing community‐based obesity prevention project(s)? If you can answer yes to either of the above questions, please send an email to rebecca.reynolds@deakin.edu.au
with contact details for an employee of the project(s), if possible (e.g. name of contact person and program, email address, telephone number). Even if you can only think of the name of the program, that’d be great. Every little bit helps.
back to top NSW Case Studies
Crunch&Sip®
Crunch&Sip is a primary school-based program that aims at increasing the amount of fruit and vegetables consumed by students at school. Since Crunch&Sip® began in 2008, over 700 schools (more than quarter of the primary schools in NSW) have implemented the program. It is estimated that over 150 000 students in more than 6 000 classes are having a piece of fruit or some salad vegetables and a drink of water in class everyday. More
Healthy Dads Healthy Kids
The Healthy Dads Healthy Kids (HDHK) project was devised by a group of researchers from the diverse areas of education, dietetics, health science and fatherhood research and is based on sound research. There are many weight-loss programs however few are designed specifically for men and none that combine research on fathers and families with health related issues of weight loss and nutritional and physical activity education for families. HDHK is addressing this issue by….more
Shoalhaven Healthy Lifestyles for Families Network
The annual survey of local general practitioners conducted by the Shoalhaven Division of General Practice identified a commonly recurring need for child obesity management and prevention strategies.
A range of practitioners from different organisations wondered how they could work together .... more
back to top
|
