Online Learning
Aged Care
When you’re planning for retirement, don’t forget to plan for your whole retirement! These units on aged care will help you plan for happy, comfortable twilight years for yourself or your loved ones. Provider: Money101 – Money for Life Pty Ltd
Food as Medicine
Explore the role of food in health. Apply nutrition science to guide you on using food as medicine for you and your family. This course introduces the concept of food as medicine. You will explore how food can be important both in preventative health and as an aid in the management of certain chronic diseases today, in the past and in the future. You will also learn about what’s in food that gives it the potential to improve our health and how to recognise which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and how food can play an important role in treating/preventing disease. Provider: Future Learn
Just Checking Online Learning Program
June is Bowel Cancer Awareness month, so what better time to think about how you can support people with disability to get screened? As a support person, you have an important role in assisting people with intellectual disability to access the bowel screening test. But we know it can be hard to know where to start. That’s why Family Planning NSW have developed the Just Checking online learning program. It’s designed especially for disability support workers to enable you to support people with disability to access cervical, breast and bowel screening. And it’s FREE! Check out the Just Checking online learning program by clicking on the link.
Managing family finances
Managing a household budget can be challenging, no matter what stage of life you’re at. These units will help you get through all kinds of family finance roadblocks, from becoming financially independent, to passing your great money habits down to your kids. Provider: Money101 – Money for Life Pty Ltd
Managing your money
This course will teach you how to achieve your financial goals, and manage your budget, debts and credit history. Provider: ME Bank
Nutrition and Health Part 1: Macronutrients and Overnutrition
Food plays a central role in our society but few people actually understand what it does to our bodies. Learn about nutrition and how our diet impacts our current and future health. This introductory nutrition course addresses the relationship between nutrition and human health with a focus on health problems related to over-nutrition. A Wageningen University course provided by edx.
Nutrition and Health Part 2: Micronutrients and Malnutrition
The course will address the micronutrient content of foods and will cover the role of the various micronutrients in the body. In addition, this course will discuss how suboptimal nutrition may affect human health and will pay particular attention to global hunger and malnutrition. A Wageningen University course provided by edx.
Personal and Family Financial Planning
This course will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime. Participants will learn about cash, credit, wealth, and risk management as well as the environmental effects on personal and family financial management. A course by the University of Florida provided by Coursera.
Preparing for life after work
This course is Part 2 of 6 modules designed to guide you through the basics of managing your finances. It’s good to plan for your retirement, whether that's coming soon or many years later. This will help you work out the lifestyle you want after work, and how to achieve that. Provider: Money101 – Money for Life Pty Ltd
Wellbeing
If you often feel as though your finances and your wellbeing are one and the same, you might be on to something. This will help you manage your stress levels and focus on what you love about life. Provider: Money101 – Money for Life Pty Ltd
