Healthy Baw Baw Advisory Committee and Working Groups

 

Improving, protecting and promoting community health and wellbeing is everyone’s responsibility. This work requires a coordinated and enduring effort and so Council created the Healthy Baw Baw Advisory Committee to oversee the development and delivery of the public health and wellbeing plan, Being Healthy in Baw Baw Shire(PDF, 14MB) .

Baw Baw Shire Council works with many community partners to achieve the strategic objectives outlined in the plan.

Partners in health promotion:

• Central West Gippsland Primary Care Partnership
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Gippsland Primary Health Network
• GippSport
• Gippsland Women’s Health 
• Latrobe Community Health Service
• Kurnai Nations
• Quantum Support Services
• Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation
• Victoria Police
• West Gippsland Healthcare Group

Working Groups

Over fifty groups and organisations, plus many individual community members are involved in working groups that undertake actions for Being Healthy in Baw Baw Shire. The leading working groups are:

• Food for All Baw Baw 
• Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing
• Our Issue, Our Watch: Community Action Group for the Prevention of Violence Against Women
• Gambling, Tobacco, Alcohol and other Drugs
• Active Living

Find our more

To join the community discussion, connect with Being Healthy in Baw Baw on Facebook.

Download a copy of Being Healthy in Baw Baw Shire and the Year 1 Action Plan at A-Z Policies and Documents. 

For more information, email the Social and Community Planner or give them a call on 5624 2411.