2010 Award Winners
ICCWA Community Safety Awards 2010
Burswood On Swan 29 July 2010
Thank you
To all who attended and to all who nominated for this year's awards. To Professor Tarun Weeramanthri, Executive Director Public Health and Chief Health Officer, WA Department of Health who kindly presented the Awards. To Robert Reekie, Founder of MATES Men's Support Group and winner of the 2009 ICCWA Outstanding Achievement Award for being our guest speaker and inspiring us all again!
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Photos by Warren Argus
WINNERS ARE:
ICCWA Outstanding Achievement Award
Solid Kids, Solid Schools Child Health Promotion Research Centre Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health
Professor Juli Coffin (centre) and Dionne Paki from CHPRC with Professor Tarun Weeramanthri
Solid Kids, Solid Schools was a collaborative project conducted by the Child Health Promotion Research Centre in Perth and the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Geraldton. This 4 year Healthway funded project aimed to collect understandings of bullying among Aboriginal children and communities, and to work with Yamaji school communities to develop locally relevant and culturally secure bullying prevention and management strategies. Congratulations to the Child Health Promotion Research Centre and the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Geraldton for your outstanding achievements in reducing injury and promoting safety in your community.
There are two Highly Commended nominations in this category –
Highly Commended:
My Train Project City of Mandurah
Tim Hartland, City of Mandurah
The Mandurah My Train project has been a key community safety and crime prevention project within the City of Mandurah – the project provides a range of strategies for a safe and enjoyable experience travelling within Mandurah’s transit precinct. The project focussed on securing sustainable partnerships, increasing community awareness in community safety, assisting homeless people in the transit precinct and minimising crime and anti-social behaviour. The relatively low level of crime that has been experienced since the opening of the station reflects the various crime prevention initiatives that have been taken on by the partners in this project.
Highly Commended:
Safer Melville City of Melville
Brodie Hawkins and Tanya van Sittert from the City of Melville
Safer Melville reflects the City of Melville’s commitment to improving the safety of residents through partnerships, community education and provision of the Community Safety Service. It promotes a shared responsibility to safety and crime prevention and identifies that everyone has a role to play in this. Integral to the successes of the Safer Melville program has been the formation of the Safer Melville committee which ensures that programs and actions are developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and implemented in a community based manner. This program has been an example used by all other local government authorities undergoing the review of their Community Safety and Crime Prevention Plan.
The ICCWA Community Innovation Award
SNAP INTO LIFE
Kimberley Division of General Practice
Julia Broadley, Project Officer, SNAP into Life
SNAP Into LIFE is a fun, interactive and culturally appropriate game for players aged 7 and up. It is the brainchild of Dr Alice Tippetts, a long term resident of the Kimberley and formerly a doctor at the Ord Valley Aboriginal Medical Service. Based on Snakes and Ladders, the game has been developed and trialled with children and families in the Kimberley, with input from the Kimberley Aboriginal community as well as local health professionals. . It is hoped that children will see how important healthy lifestyle choices are early on in life. Most importantly feedback from children is that the game is ‘deadly’!
There are two Highly Commended nominations in this category –
Highly Commended:
Steve Andrews,
Black Dog Ride for LAMP Inc
Steve Andrews with Chris Peck & Deborah Costello from ICCWA, and Prof Tarun Weeramanthri
The Black Dog Ride began as one man’s personal quest to complete a solo motorbike trip around Australia to raise awareness of depression. In August 2009 Steve Andrews completed a 26 day solo motorbike trip around Australia to raise community awareness about depression. On Sunday April 18 this year Dr Graham Jacobs WA Minister for Mental Health launched the first Black Dog Ride for LAMP Inc from Bridgetown to Busselton. LAMP provide support services for people with mental illness, their carers and family members living in local South West communities. An amazing 315 people participated in the ride and planning is already underway for next years ride.
Highly Commended:
Safe Clubs 4 Kids -
Surf Life Saving WA,
WA Sports Federation,
Department of Sport & Recreation and
WA Police Unit
Renee McCabe and Peter Ashby from Surf Life Saving WA
Safe Clubs 4 Kids is an initiative aimed at creating child safe environments in sporting and recreational settings. It is designed to educate and assist sporting communities to minimise the risk of harm to children, increase understanding and awareness of child abuse and to provide a safe and fun environment for their junior members. The program is into its third year following on from a successful pilot conducted in 2008. Safe Clubs 4 Kids, a partnership between Surf Life Saving WA, the Department of Sport and Recreation, WA Sports Federation, the WA Police Child Protection Squad, and the Working With Children Screening Unit is creating child safe environments at sporting organisations and clubs throughout WA.
The ICCWA Media Award
Health & Medicine Team, The West Australian
Alison Batcheler, Editor of H&M
The Health & Medicine Team are role models to all other journalists trying to tackle the broad range of health and safety issues facing our community. Over the last few months the H&M Team have covered a multitude of issues from mental health, suicide prevention, cycling injuries, children’s safety, alcohol related harm and other issues facing young people. These issues, as always have been thoroughly researched by the team and the articles presented in an extremely sensitive and balanced way representing a range of opinion. Congratulations to all members of the Health and Medicine Team for your efforts and in continuing to raise the bar.
The ICCWA Research Award
The Principles for Road Safety Education Project,
School Drug Education and Road Aware and
Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University 
Accepting on behalf of SDERA is Bruno Faletti
The application of the Principles for School Road Safety Education through SDERA’s resource, Getting it Together provides school communities with the tools and support to implement evidence based, best practice road safety education. With support and collaboration from national reference groups and funding from the Insurance Commission of WA the research to develop the Principles was commissioned by SDERA and completed in 2007. As a result of the research conducted by the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at ECU, 16 Principles of best practice were formulated for use by schools and communities. SDERA’s efforts to share knowledge and resources in WA has been extensive – and on a national level, the endorsement of the Principles as a best practice framework has led to these being used as a foundation for road safety education programs and initiatives in most states of Australia and also in NZ.
The ICCWA Student Award
Dr Sarah Foster
School of Population Health, UWA
Dr Sarah Foster
Sarah recently completed her PhD at the Centre for the Built Environment and Heath at UWA. Her PhD project “The Safety and Walking Study” examined the aspects that influence real and perceived safety and their impact on walking. The project set to determine the true relationship between suburban design, residents’ feeling of safety and their willingness to get out and exercise. The project looked at whether the new Liveable Neighbourhoods design formula designed to promote a stronger community feeling has made residents in the these suburbs feel safer. Her study was completed in December 2009, with the results having practical implications for the development of local neighbourhoods. The findings indicate that a more walkable neighbourhood is also a place where residents feel safer, suggesting links between community safety and active living. The findings have already assisted in the development of the walking promotion program with the Department of Transport.