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ACTION AREA | WHAT? | STRATEGY | Developing Personal Skills | * Maintaining positive health behaviour or changing poor health behaviour * Changing people’s beliefs, values and attitudes * Focuses on teaching skills which enables people to have more control over their health | * Driver education programs: Make students starting from Year 11, attend driver education programs that will help them get ready for driving on the roads. It will also teach them the rules and do’s and don’ts to driving. With this knowledge the young people will go out on the roads with a better understanding on driving and will reduce the risk of road related injuries. | Creating Supportive Environments | * To support=make it easier * Provides an environment where it is easier to make healthier decisions * Communities, workplaces, social groups, families, etc. | * 40km/h School Zones:The introduction of the 40km/h school zones has dramatically reduced the number of fatalities in school areas. Between the hours of 8-9:30am and 2:30-4pm the speed limit in school zones is 40km/h, this ensures school children are more safer when walking to and from school. | Strengthening Community Action | * Encouraging a community to do something for their own health * Empowerment of communities to recognise and address their health issues * Allowing communities to set priorities, make decisions, plan strategies and implement them | * Defensive Driver Campaigns:Representatives from the Ambulance, Police, Fire Brigade and Salvation Army departments visit school classrooms and give talks on the consequences of reckless driving. | Reorienting Health Services | * Change the direction or focus * Prevention * To try to stop things before they happen rather than fixing it afterwards * Very cost effective in the long run | * Police Liason Officer Sergeant Ron Halliday talks to local schools about the dangers of reckless driving. * Crash victims conduct workshops with