Men’s Health Week celebrates its 30th year in 2024 with a focus on Men’s Health Checks
Men’s Health Week takes place from 10-16 June 2024. This is an annual worldwide call to action about the health and wellbeing needs and issues that relate to men and boys.
This year’s focus is on Men’s Health checks and on encouraging men and boys to build healthy habits by identifying small changes they can make that benefit their health and wellbeing.
The City of Brimbank is proud to support the range of activities happening this week, events that include cooking, exercise, social connection, family connection and art across various sites in Brimbank.
These activities are aimed at supporting improved mental wellbeing, healthy eating, active living and physical activity and support economic and social inclusion.
Discover the range of events on offer by downloading the Men’s Health Week in Brimbank flier here.
Main event
This year the main event happens on Thursday 13 June at the Westvale Community Centre. Join us in this event to celebrate Men’s Health Week 2024 with guest speaker, Robert Dipierdomenico, a retired AFL player whose 17-year career at Hawthorn made him one of the country’s most notable AFL personalities.
Robert says: “The stigma around mental health and vulnerability amongst males, let alone males in a professional setting, is one that has been outdated for many years. It is an absolute honour that I am able to share my story with Westvale Community Centre and assist in breaking barriers, hopefully encouraging others to be more confident in speaking out too!”
The event features *Health Checks *Hearing Checks *Health information Stalls *Council services *Barber Services *Street Art Dance * Boxercise *Raffle *Spinning Wheel *Sausage Sizzle!!
You can book for the event here: https://www.trybooking.com/CQUFR
Men’s Health is a focus all year round
All year round, Council provides and supports a range of services to support the health and wellbeing needs of men in the community.
These include enhancement and improvement to open spaces for exercise and recreation, parks, walking and riding paths, ongoing support to sporting clubs, community strengthening grants and a comprehensive community wellbeing program delivered all year round across Brimbank in Neighbourhood Houses, Leisure Centres and Libraries and Centres as well as volunteering opportunities.
