Contact the Health Promotion team at Link Health and Community for more information via health.promotion@lchs.com.au or call 04388920580

Topics covered in this session:

• Effective marketing strategies for community sport.
• Understand how to tailor your marketing and promotion to reach diverse audiences.
• Learn how to maximise your club’s social media impact.

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The Fair Access Policy Roadmap aims to develop a statewide foundation to improve the access to, and use of, community sports infrastructure for women and girls. From 1 July 2024, all Victorian councils will need to have gender equitable access and use policies in place to be considered eligible to receive infrastructure funding. These policies will ensure that women and girls can fully participate in and enjoy the benefits of community sport, with fair opportunity and access to their local facilities.

For more information visit: https://changeourgame.vic.gov.au/leadership-centre/fair-access

Session 1: Volunteer Management

Five key elements to managing and supporting club volunteers using innovative techniques.

• Planning and resourcing
• Marketing and Recruitment
• Onboarding and Training
• Partnership Management
• Program Management

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Session 2: Relationship Management (SSA's/LGA's)

This session focuses on key tips, resources and actions when working and collaborating with your local government and sporting associations.

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Session 3: Planning for the future (Strategic Planning)

This session will focus on key drivers behind planning for your clubs success. We will look at the following

• Current state of play
• Key market trends
• Innovation and doing things different
• Areas of development and further investment

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Each month Council's Recreation team sends out a sport and recreation to update to it's club contacts. The update includes information and resources directly relating to Manningham sport and recreation user groups. You can access past updates below.

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VICSPORT launches Child Safe Online Education program

The Victorian sporting community, in particular grassroots clubs, have a new free and interactive way to understand and comply with the 11 Victorian Child Safe Standards following the launch of Vicsport’s Child Safe Online Education Program.

Developed with support from Sport and Recreation Victoria (SRV) and Lander & Rogers, the education program is powered by etrainu’s Learning Management System.

Featuring one module per Standard, users are able to delve into the content while working through practical, sport-based strategies and scenarios to help with their understanding. Breakdowns of compliance indicators, policies and procedures are also included while the modules feature the ability to save as you go, meaning you can work through the program at your own pace.

The free and interactive program is designed to guide sport administrators, volunteers, coaches and/or officials through the Standards.

For more information visit Vicsport.

Check out the below resources to help your club offer more healthy choices to the community.

• Healthy Choice for Sports. Healthy Choices is part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to promote healthy food and drink options in a range of public settings including sport and recreation.
• Healthy Club Canteens. VicHealth partnered with The Big Picture Strategic Services to undertake the Healthy Club Canteens project. This pilot program was established to identify ways in which community sporting clubs can provide a range of healthy food options in their canteens or food outlets.
• Healthy Choices. Bendigo Council has created a booklet of hints and tips to help clubs make simple, healthy and sustainable changes that will also support healthier food choices among your players, coaches and whole sporting community.
• Club Help. Club help provides information and templates on healthy eating policies.
• Vic Kids Eat Well. Vic Kids Eat Well can support sports clubs to promote water as the drink of choice and provide healthier food options for children, young people and their families. Vic Kids Eat Well have designed a set of healthy eating actions for sports clubs after wide consultation with our partners, sports clubs and state sporting associations. Once you register you will be connected with a health promotion professional who will work with you to make healthy changes in your club. Work your way through the bites, collecting rewards and celebrating your success as you go.

Cultural Safety for Aboriginal Children and Young People.

VICSPORT Webinar.

Link to the recording of the presentation: Cultural Safety for Child Safe Sport Recording

PowerPoint slides of presentation can be accessed here.

Resources

• Vicsport child safe resources are accessible and downloadable via their website here (scroll down to “Webinars” to view previous sessions)
• VACSAL http://www.vacsal.org.au/
• Koorie Heritage Trust https://koorieheritagetrust.com.au/
• VACL (The Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages): https://www.vacl.org.au/
• Aboriginal Victoria Map: https://achris.vic.gov.au/weave/wca.html

Sports Medicine Australia is Australia’s leading multi-disciplinary network for professionals working in sports medicine, sport and exercise science, and physical activity. Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) produces a number of policies and guidelines to promote safety, health and wellbeing of athletes, staff, volunteers, families and communities.

Resources that are available for download include information relating to:

• Extreme Heat Policy
• Sports Trainer Practices in a COVIDSAFE Australia
• Active Children
• Active Older People
• Active Women
• Health Conditions & Screening
• Hot Weather
• Infectious Diseases
• Mouth guard Policy for Sports Clubs
• Medical Emergency Planning Guide
• Concussion

The Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary has been developed to provide guidelines for injury data collection and classification for the prevention and control of injury in sport and recreation. The Dictionary has been written to assist sporting and recreation organisations, researchers, sports medicine professionals, first-aiders and individual clubs collect information on sports injury. The sporting organisation or researcher may customise a data collection form to suit their needs, but a sporting club may choose to use the sport-specific. The Dictionary is prescriptive in the use of data categories and options within those categories. This is necessary if the advantages of comparability and consistency are to be gained. Users are, of course, free to design forms and data systems that meet their needs, and to extend the items and classification in the Dictionary.

• Sports Injury Data Dictionary

Sports Medicine Australia has also produced a range sport-specific fact sheets that discusses ways to prevent injury, advice for taking care of junior players and how to deal with common injuries to create a healthier and more active community.

• Access the sport-specific face sheets

Sports Medicine Australia has produced an injury fact sheet series highlighting prevention and management for 12 of the most common sporting injuries .

• Access injury face sheets

Sports Medicine Australia

• Medical Emergency Planning Guide

Sport Community's 10 must haves in your clubs First Aid kit.

St Johns 'Safe Program'

• Officially recognizes sporting clubs that are ready for any first aid situation.

Work Safe

• Compliance Code: First Aid in the Workplace

Club Help

• Emergency Plans