Local organisations: services and programs

Barwon Health Community Dental Service

Community Dental Services provides dental care to eligible Health Care and Pension Card holders and their dependents in Corio, Belmont and Newcomb.

Bellarine Community Health

Dietitian Services and Community Dental Program. 

Barwon Youth

Provides youth services, accommodation support program and food aid.

Best Start

A state-wide early years support program for families and children.

Cats in the Community

The Geelong Football Club can help to sustain the community that sustains it. Cats in the Community is the community development arm of the Geelong Football Club.

Local community gardens

A list of community gardens in the Geelong region.

Healthy Families Healthy Smiles

Healthy Families Healthy Smiles is a Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV) initiative aimed at improving the oral health of Victorian children aged 0–3 years and pregnant women.

Leisure Networks

Leisure Networks promotes and strengthens community sport, recreation and health opportunities for people of all abilities across the Barwon Region of Victoria.

State and national organisations: services and programs

(available in the Geelong region)

Better Health Channel

The Better Health Channel is a website resource provided by the state government of Victoria. This site includes information on a wide range of health and lifestyle issues including health conditions, healthy living, and family and relationships. There are many resources and information for children and families.

Cancer Council Victoria

Information on a wide range of issues related to cancer prevention including healthy eating.

Dental Health Services Victoria

The Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV) website provides several resources and posters fact sheets regarding oral health and healthy eating. The site also includes information about access to services, etc. 

Eat For Health

The Australian Dietary Guidelines use the best available scientific evidence to provide information on the types and amounts of foods, food groups and dietary patterns.

Healthy Eating Advisory Service

The service provides advice on nutrition and healthy eating to early childhood education and care services (including outside school hours care), primary and secondary schools. Free telephone and email advice, menu and product assessments, recipes and healthy food ideas, training for health professionals and food service staff, and support for food industry supplying to these settings.

Healthy Kids Association

HKA is an association in NSW that supports school canteens and schools to promote healthy eating, and the website provides a wide range of resources for canteens, teachers and parents.

Home Economics Victoria (HEV)

Home Economics Victoria’s purpose is to promote skills for life to achieve optimal and sustainable wellbeing for individuals, families and communities by providing teachers, students, parents and wider school communities with education and information.

HEV is leading the ‘Healthy Eating and Food Literacy in Secondary Schools’ initiative, a tool for secondary schools to use to achieve the healthy eating and oral health benchmarks of the Health Promotion Achievement Program.

NSW – Healthy Kids Website

The new Healthy Kids website provides information resources and ideas on physical activity and healthy eating for children and young people.

Nutrition Australia

Lots of information and resources around healthy eating for everyone including a student and a workplace section.

Raising Children Website

An Australian parenting website: comprehensive practical expert child health and parenting information and activities covering children aged 0–15 years.

SA Health: Healthy Eating Page

A range of information around healthy living strategies including healthy eating. Includes great free resources a handout and a cookbook plus others.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

A national program to assist schools to set up school gardens and involve students in growing preparing and cooking fresh fruit and vegetables.

YHUNGER

Yhunger is a newsletter and resource. This is a strategy of the ‘Yfoundation’ which provides information and resources regarding youth homelessness and youth food insecurity.

Please note: This is a list of providers who are skilled in particular areas related to our priority health areas and is not a list of 'recommended' suppliers. The list is provided as a guide only.

The City of Greater Geelong provides no warranties in relation to the services of any of the providers listed and further accepts no liability for any loss or damage incurred as a result of the services provided.