Healthy Places Healthy Futures

09/10/2026

💚 Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day.

We know that good mental health is critical to learning and wellbeing.

Supporting children and young people's mental health can be as simple as:

✅ Providing quiet and calming spaces that support different sensory needs
✅ Creating opportunities to connect with nature
✅ Promoting ways to protect mental health, including getting enough sleep, being physically active and eating nutritious food

Looking for more ideas? Join Healthy Places today and download your free Mental Health & Wellbeing Action Guide for schools and early childhood services.

🔗 https://healthyplaces.health.vic.gov.au/en/get-started

29/07/2026

We're excited to share that the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation's National Kitchen Garden Awards is back for a third year.

The awards highlight the innovation, leadership and learning taking place through kitchen and garden activities.

The awards are open to all early childhood services and schools across Australia, including current Kitchen Garden Program members.

Applications are open until 7 August 2026.

Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eDzPB2X9

The National Kitchen Garden Awards are back for a third year, celebrating the creativity of kitchen gardens in schools and early childhood services across Australia.   Whether you’re growing native herbs in a small mobile garden or creating veggie-packed dishes in the kitchen, the awards recogn...

14/07/2026

🎥 See Healthy Places Healthy Futures in action.

Hear from Victorian schools and early childhood services as they share their experiences using Healthy Places to support health, wellbeing and learning.

Healthy Places makes it easier for Victorian schools and early childhood services to take action through:

✅ An effective framework
✅ Practical action guides
✅ Tailored support

Watch the video and discover how Healthy Places can help create environments that protects, supports and sustains health and wellbeing over time.

🔗 https://healthyplaces.health.vic.gov.au/en

Victorian Department of Health
Cancer Council Victoria
Overport Primary School
Lowanna College
Story House Early Learning Dandenong North
Monash Health
Bayside Health Peninsula

02/07/2026

Yesterday we celebrated the launch of the refreshed Healthy Places Healthy Futures initiative with over 70 government, health and education partners, highlighting the collaboration that underpins this initiative.

Good health and wellbeing for children and young people, leads to better learning today and a healthy future.

Supported by the Victorian Government and Cancer Council Victoria, Healthy Places makes it easier for Victorian schools and early childhood services to support health, wellbeing and learning.

Building on more than a decade of the Achievement Program, the initiative brings together all current and future health and wellbeing activities under one clear approach. It provides:

✅An effective framework
✅Practical action guides
✅Tailored support from over 200 local health promotion practitioners

We look forward to continuing to support health and wellbeing in a growing network of over 2,500 schools and services across Victoria.
Join today: www.healthyplaces.health.vic.gov.au

Victorian Department of Health
Overport Primary School

11/06/2026

We’re excited to introduce you to Healthy Places Healthy Futures!

For learning and life 💚

Building on more than a decade of the Achievement Program, Healthy Places makes it easier to support health, wellbeing and learning in Victorian schools and early childhood services.

Join today: healthyplaces.health.vic.gov.au

Huge shoutout to our 200+ health promoters, school nurses and others who support health and wellbeing in their local schools and services.

Healthy Places Healthy Futures is supported by the Victorian Government and Cancer Council Victoria.

Victorian Department of Health

19/03/2026

🚲Today is National Ride2School Day!

At Kingsley Park Primary School, the bike racks fill up fast on National Ride2School Day. Students map out their favourite active travel routes and ride in with their friends.

Is your school celebrating National Ride2School Day today? Let us know in the comments. We’d love to see how you’re moving!

Bicycle Network
Cancer Council Victoria
Victorian Department of Health
Bayside Health Peninsula

13/02/2026

Teachers, this one’s for you! 'Lunchtimes Packed with Purpose' is a free, evidence‑based guide from National Nutrition Foundation and The Embrace Collective to support food conversations in the classroom.

This Lunchbox Week, National Nutrition Foundation has partnered with The Embrace Collective to create 'Lunchtimes Packed with Purpose', a free, evidence-based guide to help teachers navigate food conversations with confidence.

With around a third of a child’s daily food intake happening at school, lunchtime moments matter.

Inside the free guide, you’ll find:
✔ Helpful food-related topics to role model
✔ Tips for common lunchtime challenges
✔ Practical ways to support student autonomy
✔ A printable cheatsheet and toolkit of resources

As a teacher, you are an important part of the everyday moments that help students build positive relationships with food and their bodies.

Download your free copy today: https://buff.ly/E7aqJ8b

19/01/2026

A big thank you to Overport Primary School for welcoming us to film at their school last year! We loved seeing how enthusiastic and confident the Year 6 Student Health Ambassadors and the Year 4 students were that day.

A shout out also to Health Promoter Kristen Young at Peninsula Health for supporting the school as they progress through the Achievement Program framework.

We look forward to sharing Overport Primary School’s story through the Achievement Program soon!