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Four updates for families and carers from Grandparents Victoria and Kinship Carers Victoria.
Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, The Lancet launches its third Series on physical activity, which extends our knowledge base from previous Series’ (2012 and 2016) on the importance of regular physical activity and sport to our health and wellbeing.
Read The Lancet here.
Play Today eNews 14 September 2021
Empowerment and participation:
A guide for organisations working with children and young people
This guide is designed to assist adults to empower and involve children and young people in their organisation, in line with the Child Safe Standards. It contains advice, tools and tips.
https://www.kidsguardian.nsw.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/838/Empowerment-an…
Office of the Children's Guardian NSW Government 2021
A Guide to Establishing a Children and Young People’s Advisory Group
ACYP regularly provides advice to organisations on how to meaningfully and effectively involve children and young people in their decision making processes. This guide has been developed to highlight the value and benefits of embedding children and young people’s voices and outlines how to successfully establish a children and young people’s advisory group.
https://www.acyp.nsw.gov.au/a-guide-to-establishing-a-children-and-youn…
ACYP 2021
Kids Co-designing Healthy Places is a Monash University project supported by VicHealth. The project supports councils and schools to engage with kids to co-design healthier places. It focuses on the things in our neighbourhoods that impact healthy eating and being active.
Monash University and VicHealth 2021
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Campbelltown City Council in South Australia is collecting, recording and showcasing our connected streets. In this video, we celebrate Tyrone Avenue in Campbelltown, where residents have come together and built a connections and relationships with one another.
Click here to view the Tyrone Avenue project.
Campbelltown SA May 2021
The Medical Journal of Australia 3 May 2021
Katherine Masiulanis and Elizabeth Cummins
