Making Cents with Food Project

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Making Cents with Food Project a
collaborative project between Western District
Health Service, Hamilton Community
House and
Winda Mara Aboriginal Cooperative, Hamilton

• Why the Making Cents with Food Project?         
• The Making Cents with Food project arose from an
  identified lack of knowledge and skills with
  selecting food that is healthy as well as
  increasing food handling skills in people from
  lower socio -economic groups, aboriginal people
  and low literacy groups.
•          The Southern Grampians / Glenelg Shire
  has a high incidence of cardiovascular
  disease1. The strong link between nutrition and
  cardiovascular disease and other chronic
  lifestyle diseases is well recognised and
  documented2.
• Gettleman and Winkely3noted that ethically
  diverse, low income women preferred programs that
  emphasizes staying healthy for themselves and
  that teach specific skills about how to adopt
  healthy heart behaviours.
• The project will be using a mix of medical and
  behavioural approaches in implementing this
  program as outlined in the DHS Health Promotion
  Guidelines 2001.
•   Integrated Health Promotion
• Southern Grampians/ Glenelg Primary Care
  Partnership Health Promotion Reference Group
  assists collaborative groups with submissions
  that meet the PCP Health Promotion Guidelines
  2002 with initial resourcing of 5000.
• This resourcing is to facilitate and build
  capacity between providers whilst having an
  impact on the health of priority population
  groups in the community.
• The Making Cents with Food project is the first
  that Western District Health Service (WDHS),
  Winda Mara Aboriginal Cooperative and Hamilton
  Community House have undertaken together and all
  are represented on the working party.

Hamilton Community House
Winda Mara Hamilton

• Comments from the Working Party
• Becky Morton, Hamilton Community House I am
  enjoying working with other services and I am
  sure we will produce a great program.
• Tracy Plunkett, Winda Mara Aboriginal
  Cooperative, Hamilton We are really looking
  forward to working with mainstream services
• Fleur Diprose, Dietician I am looking forward to
  working with Winda Mara and Hamilton Community
  House to assist in improving the cooking skills
  and overall nutrition of the program
  participants.
• Cathy Armstrong, Community Health Nurse I have
  really enjoyed working with the other services
  and found the project very valuable for
  increasing my knowledge of using the program
  logic framework
• Sue Brumby, WDHS The project has really
  increased capacity with staff working
  collaboratively as well as increasing our
  knowledge of using the program logic framework .

Some of the working party at WDHS
  Outcomes to date D - Development of
linkages and collaborative partnerships between
Hamilton Community House, Winda Mara
Aboriginal cooperative Hamilton and WDHS -
Increased staff knowledge regarding aboriginal
culture, adult learning styles , nutrition and
ccardiovascular disease risk factors
         - Increased staff skills in each
organisation in project development, project
budgets applying for funding. Gre -Greatly
increased knowledge and skill regarding program
logic and DHS Health Promotion templates.

• REFERENCES
• 1 Healthy Communities Halstead 2002.
• 2 DHS Health Promotion Guidelines 2001
• 3 Gettleman L. Winkleby M.A, Journal of
  Community Health, 25 (6) 439 53, 2000