Deadly Choices

We aim to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to make healthy choices for themselves and their families – to stop smoking, to eat good food and exercise daily through its education and support.

Operating from a strengths-based approach, Deadly Choices focuses on cultural identity to define and articulate what it means to make a healthy and deadly choice.

Choose Deadly Choices

A priority goal of Deadly Choices is to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to access their local health service and complete an annual 715 Health Check. Having a health check every 9-12 months means a clinic can build a picture of health and measure changes in a client’s wellbeing – helping to prevent chronic disease from becoming a reality, and reducing the impact of existing chronic disease, while providing ongoing health management and support.

We encourage our people to access their local Community Controlled Health Service and complete an annual 715 Health Check

Deadly Choices Programs

Healthy Life Style (Junior & Senior – Year 4 to 12)

  • Build knowledge and understanding of what it means to be a healthy, proud and positive Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person.

Good Quick Tukka (Junior & Senior – Year 4 to 12)

  • Cooking education program. The program explores a healthy balance of the vital good groups, growing understanding of the role food plays in a persons overall wellbeing.

Senior Smoke-Free Futures (Year 11 & 12)

  • Building participants knowledge and understanding of tobacco and its harms, supporting them to take control of their own health and become active community role models.

Junior Tobacco Education (Year 4 to 6)

  • Introduces age-appropriate and culturally-entwined topics which discuss the various consequences of smoking and vaping.

Traditional Indigenous Games (Prep to Year 3)

  • Enthuse and empower future generations of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples.

How to Access our Support

The Deadly Choices Team deliver programs across Central Queensland during school year.

  • Rockhampton, Yeppoon, Emu Park, Mount Morgan, Gladstone Region
  • Outreach – Moura, Biloela, Calliope, Woorabinda, Baralaba, Blackwater, Bluff, Dingo, Theodore, (Tuesday or Thursday only)

If you’d like to host a Deadly Choices program, please register your expression of interest:

 

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