Good For Kids in the Community
The Active Home Entertainment Centre Guide
Healthy Budget Bites Cookbook
Active After School Communities
Active After School Communities is an after school hours program that aims to encourage kids to enjoy being physically active. This program is run through schools and Out of School Hours Care.
Click here to find out more about the active After-school Communities program
Good For Kids in the Community
Good for Kids is committed to making it easier for kids and families to eat well and be active by working with agencies and linking with community services.
Good for Kids will work with:
1. sporting groups and council owned leisure facilities
2. agencies that support vulnerable families.
Creating a Family Friendly Sports Club
Families like to have fun, make friends and be active in a safe environment.
Clubs that are managed well and are welcoming to families have more members and are financially viable.
The following links will provide you with information and advice on ways to change management practices that will help create a family friendly sports club
Good Sports is a program that assists your club to manage alcohol responsibly and provide a smoke free and safe environment for your members and visitors.
In our region Good Sports will also be assisting clubs to provide healthier food in the canteen and shift the emphasis in junior sports to focus on children’s enjoyment and participation rather than just winning.
- Go to the Good Sports page for a full list of clubs that have achieved accreditation in the Good Sports program.
A practical guide to help you effectively run your sport or recreation organisation
Policies, strategies and templates, for example:
- child protection
- codes of conduct for parents coaches and spectators
General resources and advice, for example:
- risk management
- insurance.
Healthier food choices for your canteens, kiosks and functions
Healthier food choices at canteens, kiosks, and at functions can keep kids and parents happier and healthier and give them the edge to perform at their best.
Examples might include selling healthier versions of popular foods such as reduced fat pies and sausage rolls.
The following links provide you with information and advice on including healthier food choices in your canteens, kiosks and for functions.
NSW School Canteen Association
National Heart Foundation Healthier Catering Guidelines
Tips on Chips (guidelines for cooking healthier hot potato chips)
Encouraging all kids to enjoy being physically active
Promoting children’s enjoyment and participation in sport not just emphasising winning the game encourages healthy growth and development and increases the likelihood that children will continue to be physically active.
For sports clubs this means ensuring all junior players get equal game time instead of the better players getting more game time than others.
The following links provide you with information on promoting inclusiveness and participation for sports clubs:
User Friendly Sport Resource Kit – ‘Fun and Fair’ and ‘Codes of Conduct’sections (pg 14-17)
Active Choices checklist – ‘Suitability’ section (pg1)
Play by the rules website:
Provides information and online learning about how to prevent and deal with discrimination, harassment and child abuse for the sport and recreation industry.
