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Partnerships-for-Health-scheme-evaluation - page description.
This publication summarises the findings from the evaluation of the Out of School Hours Sports Program. The evaluation was undertaken by the School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences at the University of Ballarat in 2005.
These clubs were nominated by their State Sporting Association because of their success in increasing levels of participation and valuing and promoting inclusiveness.
What do the leading researchers think? What does the latest research tell us about children and physical activity? What input can children have to influence their own environment? And what role can parents and families play?
A review of the literature by Jo Salmon, Rachel Breman, Michael Fotheringham, Kylie Ball, Caroline Finch: Deakin University, School of Health Sciences.
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.
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.
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.
In recent decades, substantial changes in Australian lifestyles, urban environments and transportation systems have led to changed physical activity patterns among children.
By Jerril Rechter, VicHealth CEO
Participation in Community Sport and Active Recreation (PICSAR) was designed to increase participation of Victorians across all levels of community sport and active recreation.
VicHealth, in partnership with Sport and Recreation Victoria, worked with five local governments to strengthen physical activity outcomes, under the three-year Be Active initiative.