Healthwatch health checks are free and confidential for CFA brigades and provide you with a cardiovascular risk assessment outlining your risk of cardiovascular disease. Find out more about Healthwatch here.
To book a session, select your preferred date and then click on the 'to the booking form' link at the bottom of the page.
In addition to providing health checks, the Healthwatch team can assist with organising other health/fitness related activities at any stage during the year. To find out more about any of the following programs/activities, click on the links below or 'Contact Us' at the bottom of the page and let us know which program you would like to know more or host at your Brigade. Alternatively, if you know which program you'd like to host and which night you'd like to host it on, select your preferred date and click on 'to the booking form' at the bottom of the page. Type the programs name into the comments section followed up the word ONLY, and the team will follow up with your via telephone or email.
- Mental Health and Resilience workshops
- Life! Diabetes Prevention program
- Brigade personal training sessions
- Welfare Services Awareness Training
- BackFit workshop
- Health information seminars
- Brigade health and wellbeing/physical activity challenges
- VicHealth's TeamUp initiative
- Live Lighter program
- 'Quit' smoking cessation programs
- Heat Stress and Hydration training and seminars
To enquire about booking a CFA Healthwatch or other health/fitness related session on a date that appears to be unavailable, contact the CFA Health and Wellbeing team on 03 9262 8856, or submit a request by clicking on 'Contact Us' at the bottom of the page.