Raise awareness of lifestyle risk factors and health impacts.

1. Communicate consistently in culturally appropriate and safe ways with clients, using plain language.
2. Explain lifestyle risk factors that impact on health in the context of local community, cultural and family issues.
3. Provide information about the incidence of lifestyle disease in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities.
4. Provide information about lifestyle choices, and impact of unhealthy choices, including alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs.
5. Outline potential short and longer-term health problems linked to lifestyle choices.
6. Explain healthy approaches to alcohol consumption.
7. Provide consumer-based education resources and information on ways to reduce health risks linked to lifestyle choices.

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Provide healthy eating advice.

1. Provide information about patterns of healthy eating and appropriate proportions of different food types based on national dietary guidelines.
2. Advise on limiting daily intake of discretionary foods outlined in national dietary guidelines.
3. Provide clear advice about how to interpret food labels and identify both positive and negative information.
4. Highlight methods of cooking that support healthy eating and those that have the potential to cause ill-health if overused.
5. Explain the key features of safe food storage and preparation that support health.
6. Use visual aids and consumer-based education resources to support client understanding.

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Provide information about physical activity.

1. Outline the relationship between sedentary behaviour and health outcomes including risk of disease and obesity.
2. Provide information about healthy patterns of physical activity including frequency, intensity and type of physical activity outlined in national physical activity guidelines.
3. Highlight linkages between physical activity and emotional wellbeing.
4. Use techniques that support clients to actively use and engage with the information provided.

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Assist clients to plan for change.

1. Acknowledge and explain common barriers to lifestyle change and how these might be overcome.
2. Provide clients with information and techniques for making change based on their individual needs.
3. Explain ways of setting and monitoring personal lifestyle goals that are specific, measurable and realistic.
4. Support clients to set their preferred goals and suggest specific changes based on their goals and preferences.
5. Identify clients who require lifestyle advice beyond own limitations and refer to relevant health professionals and support services according to organisational procedures.

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Evaluate effectiveness of lifestyle education activities.

1. Seek and evaluate feedback from clients about value of information and education resources provided.
2. Evaluate effectiveness of information provided from own perspective and identify areas for improvement.
3. Provide ongoing feedback to relevant people based on clients’ views and own input.

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