Growing up healthy and deadly has been developed for VACCHO's Member ACCO's. It is an education book that aims to support our younger mob to grow and thrive as future Elders.

ACCO programs or services that may benefit from using this resource include

• early childhood education and care services
• playgroups
• school programs and after school/homework programs
• mums and bubs groups
• healthy lifestyle programs
• out-of-home-care programs, or
• nutrition, dietetics and other one-on-one health education sessions. 

Growing up healthy and deadly covers many areas of physical health, including healthy deadly tucker, drink water u mob, healthy little smiles and let's move it you mob.

Each section of the book includes key messages and fun activities so that ACCO staff can teach children and families about health and wellbeing. It also comes with a healthy portion plate to support talking to children about healthy foods.

Growing up healthy and deadly pilot project:

We’ll be launching Growing up healthy and deadly by running a 6 month pilot project from June 2021. This pilot is for VACCHO's Member ACCO's only.

Evaluation is super important to us to ensure new resources are culturally safe, practical and useful! Your feedback will help shape Growing up healthy and deadly for many years to come. 

Special thanks:

The education book and healthy portion plate were co-developed with staff members from VACCHO's Membership. We'd like to thank the Advisory Group members for their commitment and contribution to these resources. We'd also like to thank other ACCO staff who have reviewed the resources, and Dental Health Services of Victoria who supported the healthy little smiles section in the book.

The beautiful artwork included in the resources have been commissioned from

• Shakara Montalto | Gunditjmara
• Tamara Murray | Barkindtji

If you have any questions about the pilot project or resources, please contact the VACCHO Nutrition team here.