About Healthy Young People (HYP)
HYP is a free resource promoting positive body image, adequate sleep, healthy eating, water consumption, physical activity and reduced sedentary time. These resources are aimed at secondary school students, teachers and school staff, youth workers, social workers and anyone who works with young people.
Our choices are often influenced by how easy it is to make healthy choices, compared with how easy it is to make unhealthy choices.
HYP sets young people on a Mission to use their critical health literacy skills to make healthy choices easier in their school or youth organisation.
What are the HYP Missions?
Our choices are often influenced by how easy it is to make healthy choices, compared with how easy it is to make unhealthy choices. In each of the HYP Missions you will:
- Look at what the experts recommend
- Assess how your school is going
- Explore what is influencing people’s choices – the physical environment, policies, what is taught, what others are doing.
- Recommend and implement strategies to make the healthy choice the easy choice.
Water is the Main Drink
This mission is about making it easy for people to choose water as the main drink at school and helping people recognise the many benefits of drinking water.
We Respect Every Body
This mission is about how people think and feel about themselves. How we think and feel about our bodies is strongly influenced by what's going on around us.
This mission is about making it easy and normal for people at school to accept the physical differences between people, so that people feel good about their bodies and respect differences in other people's bodies.
Healthy Food is the Main Food
This mission is about making it easy for people to choose healthy food as the main food at school, and helping people recognise the benefits of making healthy food the main food.
We Log Enough Sleep
This mission is about making it easier for people to log enough sleep every night, and helping people recognise the many benefits of getting enough sleep.
Stand up, Sit Less, Screens Down
The mission is about making it easier for people to limit recreational screen time, limit sitting time and break up long periods of sitting at school.
We Work our Hearts
This mission is about making it easy for people to be physically active at school and helping people recognise the many benefits of physical activity.
Choose your own Mission…
This mission is about identifying a different health and wellbeing need in your school community. If you choose your own mission you will need to identify the problem and what you want people to learn, recognise, value or change.
Download all the HYP resources
Work through the Mission steps using the HYP website home page or download all the resources here
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we work and live and respect their ongoing custodianship of the land. We pay our respects to Tasmanian Aboriginal people, and Elders past and present. Tasmanian Aboriginal people’s traditional foods and lifestyle promoted physical and emotional health. We acknowledge the work Aboriginal health services are doing in this area and the valuable insights to help our community have healthy young people.
Public Health Services developed Healthy Young People (HYP) with the support and collaboration of the Department of Education, MindMatters and the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
HYP was updated in 2019 with the support of Department of Education and UTAS.
Copyright
HYP resources are copyright. They may be downloaded and reproduced in whole or in part for their intended uses. Resources may be reproduced in whole or in part for use in schools and for study or training purposes, subject to the inclusion of an acknowledgement of the source (Public Health Services, Department of Health, Tasmania). They may not be reproduced for commercial use or sale. Reproduction for purposes other than those indicated above requires written permission from the Department of Health, Tasmania.
