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URL: http://www.greatershepparton.com.au/residents/family/smiles4miles/
Smiles 4 Miles
Smiles 4 Miles is an exciting health promotion program for preschool aged children currently being implemented in the City of Greater Shepparton.
The program involves developing policies and prevention strategies to ensure better healthy outcomes for all children, by providing an environment where making the health choice becomes the easy choice for children.
The Greater Shepparton City Council is working in partnership with Goulburn Valley Health and Dental Health Services Victoria to promote the following messages:
- Drink Well – promoting water rather than sweet drinks
- Eat Well – promoting fresh fruit and vegetables rather than pre-packed foods that are high in sugar and/or fat
- Clean Well – encouraging regular brushing through curriculum activities and information to parents / carers
By incorporating these messages into our own and children’s lives, we are working towards better health both now and in the future. Good habits start at an early age, the Smiles 4 Miles program encourages children to select water as the preferred drink and fresh fruit and vegetables as the preferred snack food.
There are many good reasons for promoting oral health in young children. Good oral health is an essential part of general health and wellbeing. The ‘first’ or ‘primary’ teeth are important for young children to develop their eating abilities and habits, speech patterns and appearances and later to guide the eruption and positioning of their permanent teeth.
Kindergartens currently implementing the Smiles 4 Miles program include:
- Alexandra St Kindergarten
- Arthur Dickmann Preschool
- Colliver Road Preschool
- Echuca Road Preschool
- Isabel Pearce Preschool
- Katandra West Preschool
- Leslie Gribble Kindergarten
- Merrigum Preschool
- Murchison Preschool
- Patricia Smith Preschool
- Tallygaroopna Preschool
- Toolamba Kindergarten
- Undera Kindergarten
- Katamatite Kindergarten
- Balaclava Road Preschool
- Dolena Young Preschool
- Dookie Preschool
- Florina Preschool
- Gowrie Park Preschool
- St Mel's Preschool
- Tatura Children's Centre
For more information contact the Health Promotion Officer at Goulburn Valley Health on (03) 5832 2216 or email healthpromotion@gvhealth.org.au.