{"id":2781,"date":"2018-05-01T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2018-05-14T13:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:04:57","slug":"get-active-offers-youth-a-healthy-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/get-active-offers-youth-a-healthy-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Active offers youth a healthy start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting activities combined with health-related information sessions can improve the health, wellbeing and social connectivity of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) young people including those who are newly arrived.<\/p>\n<p>This finding is detailed in two recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/get-active-project-reports\/\">reports<\/a> from the Get Active Project funded by Multicultural Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) and rolled out by Advance Diversity Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Research results from ADS\u2019s Get Active Project offer valuable insights into the health and wellbeing needs of CALD and newly arrived young people in our region\u2019 said Anthony Scerri, Program Manager of Settlement and Community Services and Youth Services Team Leader with Advance Diversity Services.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Scerri presented Get Active findings at the Youth Health: Promoting Empowerment, Wellbeing and Safety Research to Practice Forum in Surry Hills, Sydney, on April 10.<\/p>\n<p>The forum was organised by the Priority Populations Unit \u2013 SESLHD to showcase the latest research on the experience of young people accessing health services, and to highlight best-practice programs across the region for engaging vulnerable and at-risk young people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was invited to speak at the forum because Get Active is seen as a good example of a successful locally based project,\u2019 Mr Scerri said. \u2018Our aim was to improve the health, wellbeing and social participation of CALD and newly arrived young people through sports and information sessions \u2013 and Get Active achieved this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our results will also help local youth and health services providers in the St George region to target their services to ensure young people receive the support and information they need to foster their health and wellbeing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Table-tennis-bats.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Table-tennis-bats-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Table-tennis-bats-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Table-tennis-bats-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Table-tennis-bats.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Active roll out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ADS received funding from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au\/\">South Eastern Sydney Local Health District<\/a> (SESLHD) Multicultural Health Grants Program: Healthy Communities Project to coordinate the project.<\/p>\n<p>This included organising a series of table tennis clinics combined with health-related information sessions at Kogarah Intensive English Centre (KIEC) and the ADS Youth Club. It also incorporated a regional table tennis tournament held at Hurstville Aquatic Centre in partnership with St George and Sutherland Shire Table Tennis Association and Table Tennis NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout these activities ADS and other project partners gathered young people\u2019s perspectives on a range of health-related issues, including the features they\u2019d most like to see in the health services targeted to support them. Their feedback is documented in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/get-active-project-reports\/\">Get Active project reports<\/a> along with details of audits conducted by Health Promotion SESLHD (a project partner) to promote healthy environments for young people at the ADS offices in Rockdale (where the ADS Youth Club meets regularly) and the Kogarah High School Canteen. Since the Get Active Project ended, ADS has also funded weekly sport sessions at Beverly Hills Intensive English Centre, and KIEC has approached ADS to offer table tennis sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The success of Get Active\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancediversity.org.au\/youth-forum-findings-will-help-shape-regional-health-services\/\">Youth Health Forum<\/a> held in June 2017 led to a recommendation that similar forums be held in the St George region every two years. ADS Youth Worker, Salvin Kumar, will meet with service providers soon to prepare for a second youth health forum in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In his day-to-day work, Mr Kumar provides information about racism, bullying, exams and other issues of concern identified by young people involved in the project, and asks relevant services to provide sessions for youth on these issues. The Get Active reports also recommend that local services provide targeted information to CALD and newly arrived young people on these topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re pleased that after taking part in the Get Active health and exercise sessions the majority of Get Active participants felt their knowledge about healthy food, healthy relationships, being active, accessing GPs and using interpreters had increased\u2019 said Mr Scerri.\u2018Their confidence in pursuing sporting activities had also improved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018These outcomes support evidence from the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIWH) in relation to the overall health and social benefits of recreational and educational projects,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018ADS will continue to build on these findings \u2013 to create programs that meet young people\u2019s needs and can give them timely, accessible and relevant support.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the reports now &#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Project Report \u2013 Get Active CALD Youth Project 2015-2017: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yc5lqw6t\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yc5lqw6t<\/a>\u00a0 | Youth Health &amp; Wellbeing Consultations \u2013 July 2017: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yasuwch2\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yasuwch2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Active participant backgrounds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Young people involved in the project came from diverse family and cultural backgrounds including: Thai, Russian, Chinese (not specified), Mandarin, Vietnamese,\u2028Nepali, Malay, Greek, Hindi\/Punjabi, Arabic, English, Bangladesh, Burmese, Cypriot, Egyptian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Mongolian,\u00a0 Pakistani, \u2028Palestinian, Peruvian, Filipino,\u2028Syrian and Yemeni.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Active project partners <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advance Diversity Services including its Youth Club, \u2028Beverly Hills Intensive English Centre, Directorate Planning, Population Health and Equity \u2013 SESLHD, headspace Hurstville and Miranda, \u2028Kogarah Intensive English Centre, Multicultural Health Service \u2013 SESLHD\u2028Primary Integrated and Community Health \u2013 SESLHD,\u2028St George and Sutherland Shire Table Tennis Association, and St George Youth Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting activities combined with health-related information sessions can improve the health, wellbeing and social connectivity of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) young people including those who are newly arrived. 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