During the lockdowns we developed a range of online courses including Re-Connect and Re- Emerge. Gradually we developed all SALT courses to be available on-line as well as face to face. This gave us greater reach and reduced travel. It also meant we could offer our courses at a greatly discounted price. We also believed…
SALT have been working with the Whittlesea City Basketball Association, City of Whittlesea and DPV Health in a project funded by the State Government of Victoria to tackle the Prevention of Violence Against Women through Community Sport. The project aims to challenge the social constructs of gender stereotypes in order to create safe, fair and…
Although the unseasonal cold and wet spring has had an impact on our start to summer sports, it has been fantastic to deliver sessions into the Bairnsdale Cricket Association. These sessions have been funded by the Bendigo Bank as part of the East Gippsland Bushfire Campaign. The cricket clubs that have participated are West Bairnsdale,…
What is the hardest thing about running a junior sporting club? Answer? Parents. They start off wanting their kids to have fun, to socialise, to get fit and healthy. They end up thinking that their kid is a superstar, that coaches know less than them and that umpires are fair game for abuse. Our Positive…
After 2 years of Covid and lockdowns we hit the ground running and hoped clubs would spring back into action and operate the way they did back in 2019. Most clubs didn’t. Clubs have felt the very real challenges of putting teams on fields with less volunteers and in some sports, increased drop out rates….
A Club with Heart is a club that strives for competitive greatness. It wants to perform at the highest level and win, but it achieves this by firstly creating an environment of respect, support, care and resilience for its local and wider community. Many clubs understand how important their role is in the lives of…
The complete Club Wellbeing Package involves a live, face to face Wellbeing Session in the club and then a follow-up training of a Club Wellbeing Team. These sessions are best when completed in the preseason. Session 1: Wellbeing and Mental Health This is for every member of the club community, male and female, aged 16…
At SALT we often receive letters of thanks. Rarely are they as well written or as moving as this one:
“A few of us at Birregurra FNC had been talking for a while about bringing someone in to do a mental health and wellbeing session with our footballers and netballers, knowing that for many of us – young and old – maintaining good mental health can be an ongoing struggle.
As coach of the reserves footy team, I’m used to receiving Thursday night messages from blokes saying they won’t be able to play the coming weekend, because they’re going to a festival, going fishing, going camping, can’t be bothered, whatever. Midway through the 2022 season I received a Thursday night text from one of our twos players that absolutely floored me.
“I’m really sorry Pete, I won’t be able to play this weekend. This morning I tried to take my own life.”
Sport and Life Training (SALT) gets a lot of calls from local sporting clubs when things have gone wrong.
‘We need a course on respect and equality’ explained the President of this typical suburban footy club. He went on to explain why.
‘Our women’s teams do the warm-ups with our men’s teams at training. One of our young blokes said quite loudly, ‘Why do we have to train with these ****s?’ The Pres explained that they had dealt with it strongly. ‘We suspended him for 4 weeks and during those weeks he had to run the water out to the women’s teams. We need to follow up with some in-club education,’ he explained.
Breakfast with SALT After 2 years of not seeing most of you face to face we were finally able to reconnect to many of you as we hosted 75 people for breakfast at our ‘new’ facilities at H.E. Parker Reserve in Heathmont, early on the 25 March 2022. As people entered the room, many of…
