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14 September 2012

The Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon, today announced 36 new health promotion projects aimed at increasing awareness of chronic disease and promoting better health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

The grant projects, funded by the Australian Government, are part of a $21.3 million social marketing program, the Local Community Campaigns to Promote Better Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (Live Longer! Campaign), which tackles chronic disease with health promotion activities.

“The Live Longer! Campaign involves local communities exploring new ways to combat and prevent chronic disease by addressing nutrition, physical exercise, quitting smoking and having regular health check-ups,” Minister Snowdon said.

“Two-thirds of the gap in health outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the wider Australian population can be attributed to largely preventable chronic diseases. Tackling obesity, smoking and excess alcohol consumption will contribute to cutting the rates of diseases like diabetes, renal and heart disease and some cancers.”

Last year, 38 grants projects were funded and the 74 projects from both rounds include cooking lessons for new mothers, the development of community gardens, a range of exercise programs and the development of culturally appropriate media and social marketing resources aimed at reducing smoking rates and tackling passive smoking.

“It is important that we continue to find new ways of promoting better health within communities,” Minister Snowdon said.

“As these programs are implemented, we work with the communities to record what works best, and where we are seeing the most success, this valuable information can then be shared with the wider health sector.”

The Live Longer! Campaign is a program that is part of the $805.5 million Indigenous Chronic Disease Package (ICDP). The ICDP aims to reduce key risk factors for chronic disease, improve chronic disease management and follow up, and increase the capacity of the primary care workforce to deliver effective care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic diseases.

For more information, contact the minister’s office on 02 6277 7820

State/Territory	Organisation	Project
ACT	Solid Young Fulla's Aboriginal Organisation	Chronic Disease Self Management Education for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounding areas
NSW	Arts OutWest	Spread the Word
NSW	Gandangara Health Services Limited	"Be Healthy, Get Health Help!"
NSW	Kool Purple Kookas Indigenous Corporation	KPK's Cookbook Competition
NSW	National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy	Healthy Living is Affordable Living
NSW	National Heart Foundation	Be Stronger, Live Longer
NSW	South Eastern Sydney Medicare Local	The Sutherland and St George Aboriginal Healthy Lifestyle Program
NSW	Southern NSW Medicare Local	Aunty Jean's good health team program - Goulburn
NSW	Wingecarribee Family Support Service	Aboriginal Families Program - Aboriginal Young Men's Project
NSW	Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre Aboriginal Corporation	Quit Smoking Campaign
NT	Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation	Anyinginyi Friday Night Games
NT	Rob de Castella's SmartStart for Kids!	I-CAN (Indigenous Communities for Activities and Nutrition)
QLD	Abm Elgoring Ambung Aboriginal Corporation	Awin Udnum (Good Path): Seasonal Health Workshops on Traditional Country
QLD	Girudala Community Co-op Society Ltd	Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Exposure Project
QLD	NPA Family and Community Services	Let's Get Moving - Physical Activity Program
QLD	Out There Kowanyama Inc	Community gardens for health
QLD	Queensland Remote Aboriginal Media Corporation	Promoting health living in Queensland's remote Indigenous Communities
QLD	Roma Community Garden Inc	Lets Talk Life: Filling the Gap Between the Why and the How of Eating Good Tucker, Being Active and Living Longer
QLD	Townsville Intercultural Centre Ltd	Our Mob: Healthy in the Tropics

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State/Territory	Organisation	Project
SA	Life Without Barriers	Murilpun Namawi Nomawi Winyil Po:rlar Piltenggi "Keeping our families and children strong"
SA	Murray Mallee General Practice Network	Healthy People, Healthy Culture, Healthy Future
SA	Southern Adelaide Medicare Local	Ngaityo Wodli (My Home)
SA	Tauondi Incorporated	Live Longer! Mobile Training Van
VIC	Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative (BADAC)	Ballarat Aboriginal Health Campaign
VIC	Dianella Community Health	Hume Chronic Condition Prevention Program (to be named by local Elders)
VIC	Horsham 298 Primary School - Rasmussen Road Campus	Good Tucker, Good Health
VIC	Mallee Sports Assembly Inc	East End Health for East End Wealth
VIC	Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation	Koori Family Lifestyle Project
VIC and NSW	Albury & District Local Aboriginal Lands Council	Walan Ma Rra (To Make Strong)
VIC and NSW	Balranald Aboriginal Health Service	Health Management and Understanding of Early Childhood Development
WA	Extra Edge Community Services Inc	Eat Wise Live Wise & Play Love - Projects
WA	Goldfields Midwest Medicare Local	Reach for Your Goals - Hip Hop Youth Anti-smoking
WA	Ilkurlka Aboriginal Corporation	Spinifex Health Promotion Projects
WA	Langford Aboriginal Association Inc (LAA)	Live Longer (BILL)
WA	Meerilinga Young Children Foundation Inc	Tucker for Toddlers and the Early Years
WA	Melville Senior High School	Moorditj Melville (ACE Program Community Health Project)