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Diabetes Australia type 2 diabetes prevention programs

Diabetes Australia delivers a range of type 2 diabetes prevention programs and services.

Get Healthy Service (New South Wales)

Want your own health coach to help you reach your goals? The Get Healthy Service is free evidence-based phone and online health coaching for people over the age of 16 living in NSW. It is delivered by Diabetes Australia on behalf of NSW Health. The program is designed to fit in with your life, with health advice tailored to your needs and goals.

When you join Get Healthy, you’ll get six or more coaching calls on a range of health topics including eating healthy, getting active, reducing alcohol, reaching, and staying at a healthy weight. It can also be personalised to help manage your health while living with diabetes or cancer. There is also a program to support women during pregnancy and beyond.

Get Healthy is available in languages other than English. Free interpreter services and the National Relay Service are available. If you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, you can yarn with an Aboriginal Health Coach and get information specific to Aboriginal communities. 

To join the Get Healthy Service, call 1300 806 258, Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, or Saturday 9am to 5pm or you can register online. 

My health for life (Queensland)

Led by Diabetes Australia, My health for life is a free, lifestyle change initiative for Queenslanders who are at high risk of chronic disease – type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Delivered in six or more coaching sessions by a qualified Health Coach, the initiative is designed to help individuals discover ways of changing their day-to-day behaviour – that they can live with.

It’s provided in a variety of ways, from groups to phone or online coaching – locally, at home, or at work – with culturally adapted versions.

My health for life is funded by the Queensland Government through Health and Wellbeing Queensland.

The COACH Program® (Tasmania)

Delivered by Diabetes Australia in Tasmania, the COACH Program® is a free telephone coaching service for people at risk of, or diagnosed with, type 2 diabetes. It helps people to understand, manage and improve their health in particular around the risk factors associated with diabetes and its complications. Join the program or find out more.

Other prevention programs delivered locally across Australia

Life! (Victoria)

The Life! program is a Victorian lifestyle modification program that helps you reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Run by expert health professionals, the program is delivered as a Group Course or a Telephone Health Coaching service. Funded by the Victorian Government and managed by Diabetes Victoria it is the biggest prevention program of its type in Australia.

Visit Life! for more information.

Better Health Coaching Service (South Australia & Western Australia)

Take control of your health with the Better Health Coaching Service, a free telephone program for those at risk of chronic diseases. With personalised goal-setting, this service helps you adopt healthier eating habits and stay active, all tailored to your unique needs.

Find out more at Better Health SA or Better Health WA.