Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Toolkit

• Queensland Stay On Your Feet® Home
• Toolkit
  • Model diagram
  • Model's explanation
• Background
• Phase 1 - Investigate
  • What is the problem?
  • What are the impacts of the problem?
  • Why does the problem occur?
  • Where does the problem occur?
  • When does the problem occur?
  • What is the current context?
  • What is already happening?
• Phase 1 - Materials
  • Collecting information
  • Fear of falling
  • Risk factors
  • Key documents
  • Community stocktake
• Phase 2 - Plan
  • What can be done?
  • What do we know about the target group?
  • Who can be involved?
  • How do we keep the work going?
  • How will we measure progress?
• Phase 2 - Materials
  • Key stakeholders
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Good working relationships
  • What works?
  • Decision making
  • Goals, objectives, strategies
  • Community planning meetings
  • Reach and marketing
  • Social marketing plan
  • Key messages
  • Community engagement
  • Partnerships
• Phase 3 - Implement
  • Are we testing before we act?
  • What can we achieve now and later?
  • Are there opportunities to explore?
  • How are we monitoring progress?
  • Are we talking with others about our work?
  • Are we measuring our efforts?
• Phase 3 - Materials
  • Communicating
  • Awareness raising
  • Communication plan
  • Community progress meetings
  • Ambassadors
  • Physical activity
  • Sports tours
  • Come and try days
  • Case studies
• Phase 4 - Review
  • Process evaluation
  • Impact evaulation
  • Outcome evaluation
  • Share and celebrate
  • What happens next?
• Phase 4 - Materials
  • Process evaluation tools
  • Impact evaluation tools
  • Outcome evaluation tools
• Acknowledgements

Toolkit Phase 3 - Materials

Implement

These resources will help you implement the falls prevention and healthy active ageing strategies planned during Phase 2 of the Toolkit.

Communicating

• Communicating
  Communicating well with others is fundamental to the success of your project/program. This section gives tips for communicating well, and outlines the benefits of good communication for falls prevention project/programs.
  
  
• Awareness raising
  This section talks about how to raise awareness of falls prevention and healthy active ageing in the modern environment of ‘information overload’, and how this was achieved during the Queensland Stay on Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett trial project.
  
  
• Preparing a communication plan
  This section explains how to construct an effective communication plan to help get your key messages to the target audience.

Working with stakeholders and volunteers

• Community progress meetings
  Community progress meetings aim to review how community action plans for each area are progressing. This section describes a useful method for tracking progress.
  
  
• Ambassadors
  This section defines an voluntary ambassador’s role, the benefits of being an ambassador, working effectively with ambassadors and deciding whether to involve ambassadors in your falls prevention project/program.

Physical activity and falls prevention

• Physical activity
  This section discusses why physical activity is important for older people, what types of physical activity prevent falls, older people’s attitudes towards physical activity, barriers to involvement and how to motivate older people to join in and be active and healthy.
  
  
• Sports tours
  This section defines a sports tour and discusses the sports tour used as a strategy during the Queensland Stay On Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett trial project.
  
  
• Come and try days
  Find out how to plan a successful Come and try day, and access useful resources and templates.

Falls prevention in practice

• Case studies
  Read testimonials from people involved in the Queensland Stay On Your Feet Wide Bay/Burnett trial project and the Townsville Thuringowa Safe Communities Seniors Safety Group.

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