Tasmanian Association of Community Houses

INTRODUCTION 

Between July 2010 and December 2011, the Tasmanian Association of Community Houses worked with the Department of Health and Human Services to promote the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service in the Neighbourhood House communities throughout Tasmania.   Neighbourhood Houses were supported with promotional materials and resources, including small grants of $500, to offer events, activities and programs on healthy eating and being active to introduce people to the Service.  This arrangement has now concluded, but the messages about getting healthy remain as important as ever, and the Get Healthy Service continues to offer support.

THE GET HEALTHY SERVICE

The Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service is a free, confidential telephone-based Service which helps people 18 years and over work towards:

• Healthy Eating
• Being physically active
• Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight

You can use the Service for up to 6 months.  In that time you will have your own personal health coach who has been trained to support you.   If you get started with the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service, you will receive an information booklet which has lots of useful information on healthy living and another booklet with some tools you can use to plan and check your progress.  You can have up to 10 free telephone sessions with your coach to get advice and support to help you be healthy.

Getting started is easy.  Simply phone 1300 806 258 or send an email with your contact details to contact@gethealthy.tas.gov.au and a qualified health coach will call you back on the next business day.  After your first call, the health coach will contact you on your landline or mobile for each session, so that it doesn't cost you anything.  If you want to get started straight away, you can do it on-line right here.

For a brief introduction to the Service, refer to the Get Healthy Brochure.

Check out the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service web page at www.gethealthy.tas.gov.au for more information about the Service. 

For general questions about the Service, refer to these Frequently Asked Questions.

GET HEALTHY PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES

During the period that TACH was contracted by the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the free Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service, Houses throughout Tasmania undertook 73 healthy events or activities for their communities while also promoting the Get Healthy Service.

Here is a brief summary of House promotion activities that were funded. As you can see, Houses came up with some great ideas.

To obtain funding and promotional material, Houses followed the Guidelines for Funding, completed a Funding Request and forward it to TACH.   A Summary Report  was forwarded to TACH at the completion of each promotion. 

Houses were provided with these Promotional Ideas as a starting point.   Once their events, activities or programs were up and running, they could refer to this set of Promotional Notes to explain the benefits of the Get Healthy Service to participants.

RESOURCES

For a range of useful information about healthy living, check out the Get Healthy- Some Useful Resources page.

ENQUIRIES

Contact Ron Sutton or John Hooper at the TACH office on (03) 6228 6515