Prevention and health promotion

Good health and wellbeing are important for everyone, but we know that not everyone has the same opportunity to live a healthy life.

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Why is health promotion important?

A healthy body and mind are important for all.

Health promotion supports people to improve their health.

If we want to have a healthy community, we need to have:

  • safe and clean places to live and work
  • enough healthy food for each day
  • fair access to good education and healthcare
  • strong relationships

What does the health promotion team do?

We work with community members to plan and deliver projects. The groups we work with may experience more barriers to health than others.

We want to make fair changes that last, help these communities be healthier, and show their strengths.

We work with many groups:

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • People from various cultural background including refugee or people seeking asylum
  • People from LGBTQIA+ community
  • Children and their families

cohealth receives funding from the Department of Health to do health promotion work. The work we do matches the key health areas in the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2023-27. We work across Melbourne’s north and west, focusing on areas like Maribyrnong, Melbourne, Yarra, and Moonee Valley.

We get our key priorities from the Department of Health and community interest. These are the health areas we focus on.

  • Enabling us to have nourishing foods
  • Fostering movement
  • Reducing harm from smoking and vaping
  • Strengthening mental wellbeing
  • Preventing all forms of violence and promoting gender equity

Our health promotion strategy why and how we will work with others. Read our 2025-2029 strategy here.

For more information on our current projects read our Health Promotion Action Plan 2025-26.

See below for past Health Promotion Action Plans and Reports:

We know we can’t do everything on our own, so we partner with a range of different groups. The Health Promotion Action Plan describes our different partnership roles.

In 2025-26 we have partnered with:

Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) settings:

Early Childhood setting:

Sports Clubs

Education Settings

Find out about Arts Gen here and read all about its great work, such as celebrating IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia) and Transomatics, a podcast that was awarded the ‘Driving Health Equity Award at the Victorian Health Promotion Awards.

Read about cohealth’s bicultural workers here.

Are you a community group with a health promotion idea or want to get involved with a project? Do you want more information about health promotion?

Email us at healthpromotion@cohealth.org.au

About us

cohealth is a not-for-profit community health organisation. We provide essential health and support services in Melbourne’s CBD, inner-north and inner-west, and the east coast of Tasmania.

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