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 - Photo: D Sharon Pruitt, courtesy Flickr Creative Commons.
Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities is a capacity-building program focused on identifying local government’s role in building safe and healthy communities, and ensuring it has the tools, technical expertise and political will to play that role effectively.
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- Is it your shout again? ICLEI Oceania’s Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities program can help your council calculate how much it really spends on alcohol management each year. more>
- Welcoming the new Director of Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities: After establishing ICLEI Oceania’s social sustainability program over the past two-and-a-half years, current Director Mark Boyd has decided to step down from the role in order to focus on continuing content development for the program’s three areas of Alcohol Harms Management, Climate Change and Health, and Food Sustainability. From July 2010 Peter Streker will commence as the new CSHC Director. more>
- Maroondah City Council community engagement project: Our Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities team is working with Maroondah City Council, using a community action model approach to engage with the Bayswater North community to address local concerns regarding public space and alcohol-related harms. more>
- FebFast funding now available: Grants up to $20,000, applications due 11 June 2010: Following its successful national fundraising campaign earlier this year – including money raised from ICLEI's team and CSHC council staff teams around the country – FebFast is now taking expressions of interest from prevention, research and treatment projects, programs or services that address alcohol and other drug use and misuse, and its impact on young people (12–25 years) and their families. Projects may also combine these elements.
FebFast is providing grants up to the value of $20,000 per project: CSHC councils and their community partners are encouraged to apply. For further details, and to submit an expression of interest for a grant, please visit the FebFast website.Completed expressions of interest must be received by 5pm on Friday 11 June 2010.
For CSHC councils, please feel free to contact our Program Support Officers Sean O'Rourke and Renee Montgomery if your council is planning to apply and requires support with writing your funding application.
Cities for Safe and Healthy Communities is an ICLEI Oceania project delivered in collaboration with City of Sydney, Wagga Wagga City Council, Brisbane City Council, Regional Council of Sunshine Coast, City of Salisbury, Hobart City Council, Melbourne City Council, City of Port Phillip, Whitehorse City Council, City of Greater Geelong, City of Greater Dandenong, City of Casey, City of Yarra, Brimbank City Council, Manningham City Council, City of Maribyrnong, City of Stirling.
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