Free DIY Health Toolkit

DIY Health Toolbox

The DIY Health Toolbox is a health promotion initiative under the National Male Health Policy that has been developed in consultation with Minister Snowdon’s Male Health Reference Group , the Australian Men’s Shed Association and Men’s Sheds Australia to ensure the items and health promotion messages contained in the toolbox are appropriate and useful in the shed environment.

The DIY Health Toolbox is a real toolbox that contains usable items such as tape measures, carpenter’s pencils, magnetic clips and note books featuring positive health messages and referral pathways.

A limit of one free DIY Health Toolbox is available to all established Men’s Sheds that apply during the application period. To receive a free DIY Health Toolbox, a Men’s Shed must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• It is overseen by a not-for-profit community-based organisation* that is socially inclusive and opens its doors to all males wishing to participate in Shed activities, OR conforms to the above definition in all respects except that its membership is restricted to male Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members for cultural purposes; AND
• The primary activity is the provision of a safe, friendly and inclusive environment where males are able to gather together and/or work on meaningful projects at their own pace, in their own time and in the company of other males; AND
• It is a purpose built facility, or a multi-purpose community or private building, used on a regular basis as Men’s Shed for the primary activity detailed above, AND the group identifies its primary purpose as being a ‘Men’s Shed’, OR in the absence of a purpose built facility, identifies as a gathering for the purposes of men’s business in Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander groups.

*The organisation needs to be a legal or registered entity, such as an Association, incorporated (or under the auspices of an incorporated body) under State and Territory Incorporation legislation, and act as a legal entity separate from its individual members that can hold property.

Completed order forms for the DIY Health Toolbox will be accepted by National Mailing and Marketing from 22 August 2011 up until 30 September 2011. Orders received after this period will not be eligible.

DIY Health Toolbox order form

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