Mission Statement: 

Healthy Cities Onkaparinga aims to stimulate community action in Onkaparinga about issues that affect health and to develop possible solutions for these issues.

 

Objectives:

1. Promote a social view of health within government departments, local government private business and the general community.
2. Encourage cooperative processes between government sector and the private sectors at a local level which coordinate health-promoting activities and foster the community’s discussion of better health.
3. Encourage commitment to improving the health of the local community.

 

Strategies:

• Work with a variety of local community groups and individuals on locally relevant issues. 

 

• Encourage community participation, firstly in the identification of needs, and then addressing the issues e.g. We work with the Health Consumers Alliance, Southern Adelaide Health Service, Community Participation Framework policy:-Community Participation Register.  

 

• Support existing community initiatives which promote health e.g. basic living skills, cultural diversity and access to services.

 

• Encourage health services and other services to allocate a higher priority to health promoting activities e.g. Noarlunga Toward a Safe Community, Noarlunga Community Action on Drugs.

 

• Cooperate in/facilitate the development of networks between Healthy Cities throughout Australia and the western Pacific region e.g. sharing experiences, Flinders University of SA, Healthy Cities and Communities Short Course, Alliance for Healthy Cities WHO Western Pacific Healthy Cities Alliance.  

 

• Give priority to issues and activities which are based on values of social justice and equity.