Open Family Australia, in partnership with Goodman Fielder, will be establishing a mobile food service called NOSH in
NOSH – Nutrition, Outreach, Support and Health – will provide nutritious evening meals to the region’s at-risk and homeless youth, initially operating three nights a week. NOSH will also incorporate a nurse to provide basic first aid and health advice as well as a counsellor to assist young people with drug and alcohol counselling.
Young people in Sydney's Western region are in a high risk category of low food security, i.e. that they do not have enough food to eat each week. Food insecurity is associated with poor health and insidiously exacerbates other health inequalities.
NOSH will provide the following:
- Healthy meal options
- Food packs for young people
- Nutritional information for young people
The NOSH Program will operate alongside the Chatterbox Bus as a health and wellbeing service providing nutritional healthy food options for these at-risk young people. The NOSH program is proudly supported by Goodman Fielder.
The City of Frankston has a new community outreach program to combat the rise in youth homelessness, crime and alcohol and drug related abuse for troubled youth in the region. A development committee made up of concerned local business owners approached Open Family Australia in 2008 to establish the program to assist at-risk and homeless youth aged 12-25 in Frankston.
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