Junior Education Programs
Junior Good Quick Tukka
Junior Good Quick Tukka
Through the Junior Good Quick Tukka Program, facilitators endeavour to reinvigorate the appeal of healthy, nutritious foods that can easily be prepared by 8-12 year-olds. Through the simple process of choosing more culturally compatible ingredients from the five food groups, while emphasising the overall importance of maintaining positive eating habits, we empower young people to take a leading role in the health of their families and that of the wider community. The program has been developed to encourage young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to make healthy food choices and to support others to do the same. As a result, the program hopes to increase the number of healthy meals being prepared at home among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. By delivering programs that focus on the importance of integrating culture and leadership, we are confident that participants will be able to engage in lifelong healthy eating practices and behaviours.
Junior Healthy Lifestyle
Junior Healthy Lifestyle Education Program
The Junior Healthy Lifestyle Education Program aims to build knowledge and positively impact on the attitudes and behaviours of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants. Ensuring absolute inclusivity, any student who has yet to be engaged with the Deadly Choices brand will be provided with all relevant details to kickstart their family’s health journey. Throughout the entire program, participants have key preventative health messaging reinforced to ensure they have capacity to make deadly, healthy choices now, and into the future. A broader understanding of associated culturally based concepts is also fundamental to this introductory level program.
Junior Tobacco Education
Junior Tobacco Education Program
The Junior Tobacco Education Program introduces age-appropriate and culturally-entwined topics which discuss the various consequences of smoking, while highlighting methods on how to encourage family members and friends already smoking, towards undertaking their quit journey. Education and entertainment are meshed together to ensure key preventative health messages are delivered through a short, 16-part animation series. ‘Smokey Joe’ highlights numerous aspects of smoking, including related social, emotional and physical consequences of such behaviour. The complete series seeks to reinforce the overall goals of Deadly Choices, while honing in on the dangers of smoking among communities. Get the Deadly Choices education programs at your school!
Traditional Indigenous Games
Traditional Indigenous Games
Australia’s Institute for Urban Indigenous Health utilises a comprehensive, cultural framework to educate, enthuse and empower future generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, through its all new Traditional Indigenous Games Deadly Choices Program. With an overarching objective to ensure optimal preventative health practice across communities, the program relies heavily on showing how the ways of the past can successfully frame contemporary health choices, while providing cultural and contextual learning, among 5 to 8-year-old participants.
Contact your local Community Controlled Health Service or email [email protected] to find out more about any of the junior education programs above!
