Size Inclusive Approach Forum

Target audience: Community Members and Professionals

Event: Size inclusive approach – a forum for public and community health practitioners

Date & Time: Tuesday October 28th 5:30pm – 8:30pm. Doors open @ 5pm.

Venue: Parklake Shepparton, 481 Wyndham St, Shepparton, VIC 3630

Forum aims:

• Enhance knowledge, skills, and confidence in applying a size-inclusive approach to your practice as a health promotion practitioner; and,
• Hear from a panel of experts about their own lived experience, ways they have implemented a Size-Inclusive Approach to their care, and the outcomes of this practice.

Background:

Applying a Size-Inclusive Approach to health promotion initiatives aims to create a culture and environment that supports all people to optimise their health and wellbeing. It creates space for authentic change to effectively shift the systems that hold weight stigma in place.

Join a panel of experts in discussing the size inclusive principles and how you can help implement them into your everyday practice. The forum will also highlight the current context across a wide array of health contexts; ranging from psychologists, dietitians, and people with lived experience.

You will gain from this forum:

• Enhance knowledge, skills, and confidence in applying a size-inclusive approach to your practice as a health promotion practitioner; and,
• Hear from a panel of experts about their own lived experience, ways they have implemented a Size-Inclusive Approach to their care, and the outcomes of this practice.

Light refreshments and snacks will be provided during intermission

Lucky door prize to be won!

For more information, please contact Health Promotion and Prevention Officer at GV Public Health Unit, Jacqui Napolitano. [email protected]

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Quality Hotel Parklake Shepparton, 481 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Australia