Active Families

Green Prescription Active Families is a support service offering opportunities for your whole family to become more active

How to start being a healthy active family
- Parents, become a healthy lifestyle role model for your children
- Help set goals to support and encourage your family to be active everyday
- Make healthy eating and physical activity changes at home
- Encourage active transport instead of using the car
- Spend some time trying new things with your children.

Healthy Family Chart

What your family will get out of the Active Families Programme
 - weekly group sessions filled with activity and information
 - Individual family meetings with a Family Support Worker to
   set goals and motivate your family
 - Regular contact and advice from a dietitian
 - Information and details on community activities, health,
  nutrition and exercise guidelines.



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How the Active Families Programme Works

Feeding our futures Nutrition Workshops
There are two nutrition workshops per term for the parents or caregivers of the children participating on the active families programme.

The workshops cover a variety of topics relevant to the children and families.  For recently covered topics please click on the website link www.feedingourfutures.org.nz

Active Families Programmes

Pacific Active Families  
This programme is run by Harbour Sport in partnership with Pasifika Integrated Health Care. The activity sessions are held at Hato Petera College on a Friday 4.45pm-6.00pm.