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Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Thursday March 16 2017<br />
Our People<br />
The Star<br />
Jill Borland<br />
Promoting a healthy lifestyle<br />
Jill Borland is striving<br />
to help people to make<br />
healthy choices, and<br />
this weekend’s The Star<br />
City2Surf with Mike Pero<br />
is the perfect opportunity.<br />
Bridget Rutherford spoke<br />
to her about why you<br />
should take part in the<br />
event on Sunday<br />
Can you tell me a bit about your<br />
role at Sport Canterbury?<br />
So I was the general manager<br />
until late last year and then Sport<br />
Canterbury had the opportunity<br />
to take up the Healthy Families<br />
contract. I saw it as a fantastic opportunity<br />
to exercise my passion<br />
around social change so I took<br />
up the leadership role of Healthy<br />
Families Christchurch initiative.<br />
We work with wider stakeholder<br />
groups across the sector to develop<br />
a strategy to make sure we’ve<br />
got really well skilled people and<br />
enough of them for a growing<br />
sector. In greater Christchurch<br />
we’ve got all these fantastic facilities<br />
being built. The council has<br />
indicated we’re going to have to<br />
grow the number of people with<br />
the right skills for those facilities.<br />
What is the purpose of<br />
Healthy Families?<br />
Healthy Families is a social<br />
change initiative. It’s about connecting<br />
leadership to make it<br />
easier to access healthy choices<br />
in everyday lives. So Healthy<br />
Families is about having conversations<br />
at a community level so<br />
the community becomes aware of<br />
the policies and the opportunities<br />
that come up. We are making<br />
healthy choices more acceptable<br />
for some people. For example,<br />
GET INVOLVED: Sport Canterbury<br />
Healthy Families manager Jill Borland is<br />
encouraging people to take part in The Star<br />
City2Surf with Mike Pero Real Estate for<br />
their well-being. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
we have been working with<br />
churches, and one church identified<br />
access to fresh produce was a<br />
problem in their communities so<br />
we’ve been helping with that. We<br />
want to know who’s doing what<br />
and how we can help – whether<br />
that might be a work place which<br />
is wanting to help their staff<br />
become Smokefree or working<br />
with a school around the health<br />
of its staff or providing school<br />
gardens or a water-only policy<br />
implementation.<br />
And how did you get involved<br />
in that?<br />
So I started my work as<br />
professional sports coach and<br />
somebody said to me one day<br />
you’ll have to get a real job and<br />
I thought do I? I decided to become<br />
physical education teacher.<br />
Then I had a career shift working<br />
with College of Education promotions<br />
and front-line services.<br />
Part of that was promoting qualifications<br />
of sport coaching and<br />
physical education, so there was<br />
a theme evolving around education<br />
and development. Then I<br />
was made redundant when the<br />
university merged with the College<br />
of Education and from there<br />
I took the opportunity to run<br />
my own business in marketing<br />
and business consultancy. After<br />
the earthquakes I came back to<br />
Christchurch and worked for<br />
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery<br />
Authority in sport and recreation<br />
recovery. I think it presented a<br />
platform to do the work I’m currently<br />
doing.<br />
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