Transcript of the Most Significant Change Year 4 video Start of video The music is upbeat electronic music. Slide One Image: There is an image of a brightly lit stage with the words “live at Warrawee” lit up behind the performers. There is a singer with a microphone in the foreground, a drummer playing a drum kit behind, and a guitarist in the shadows to the side of the stage. Text: City of Monash A Healthy and Resilient Monash: Integrated Plan 2017-2021. Reporting back Year 4 Action Plan 2020-2021. Monash.vic.gov.au Slide Two Image: A woman wearing a face mask, a lanyard around her next and a bright floral top is carrying seven library books. Behind her are library shelves with books on them. Text: Integrated Plan 2017-2021 Year 4, 2020-2021. In 2020-2021, Council continued to support the health and wellbeing of our community throughout the COVID-19 restrictions and shutdowns. Slide three Image: The photo setting is a library with shelves and books in the background. There are rows of brown paper bags on a table in the foreground. The bags have small writing on the front of each one. A person with long hair, wearing a long shirt and pants is lifting a handful of brown paper bags from the rows. Text: Integrated Plan 2017-2021 Year 4, 2020-2021 In many cases we had to adapt our activities in new ways.  In some settings we reached and engaged people we never had before. Slide four Image: The sun is setting behind some trees. In the foreground is a crowd scene of many people in the shadowy late afternoon twilight, either standing or sitting at white plastic tables on chairs with white tents in the background. Text: Year 4 2020-2021 A Healthy & Resilient Monash: Integrated Plan Here are some highlights from our community on how our services and activities have impacted them in 2020-2021. Slide five Image: There is a screen shot of a video conferencing call, with four young people, one in each quarter of the screen. One has a virtual background with Monash Youth Ambassadors written behind her, the other three appear to be in a home-like environment, with curtains, windows or a bookshelf behind them. Three are smiling and two are wearing headphones or ear buds. Text: Monash Youth Services Monash Youth Ambassadors #MYaction2020 “I felt empowered knowing my voice was being heard.” Slide six Image: A man stands in a gallery with photographs hanging on the wall. He is looking at a photograph of someone dressed in white, with a sepia coloured background behind them. Text: Monash Gallery of Art – MGA Install view of Bowness Photography Prize 2020 “It has really inspired me.” Photo credit: Install view of Bowness Photography Prize 2020 (2021) with works by (L-R) Sam AMAR, Klari AGAR, Lee GRANT, Paul BLACKMORE. Photo by Katie Tremschnig Slide seven Image: Screenshot of a video conference call with a women with black fingernails pointing to a solid red triangle on laminated piece of paper showing eight difference shapes in eight different colours. Text: Maternal and Child Health (MCH) MCH Outreach Services Two-year-old education sessions online “I found it so much easier to entertain a child in (my) own home.” Slide 8: Image: Around fifty people in bright coloured active wear are posing for the camera, looking joyful with their hands in the air. They are inside on a polished wooden floor. Text: Active Monash Aquatics & Leisure Pride Night “I’ve never seen anything like this in a recreation facility…very much about diversity and inclusivity…We are in a new age now and it’s about time!” Slide 9: Image: Five people in active wear and face mask are in a Tai Chi stance, with one leg forward and fists loosely clenched in front of them. They are outside a building underneath a veranda, with windows along the side of the area and they are standing on paving bricks. Text: Active Monash - Active Communities Active Monash Month November 2020 - Active Outdoors Classes - Zumba & Tai Chi "So great to feel active and social again after the long isolated winter.” Slide 10: Image: Two women are looking joyful and smiling. They are seated and holding onto knitting and yarn. In front of them on a table is a pile of knitted goods, including a teddy bear and blankets. Text: Social Inclusion “The Community Care Blanket” project “This made us feel valued and part of this awesome community called ‘The City of Monash’.” Slide 11 Image: There are two photographs of a small child, wearing a hat on a sunny day and posing for the camera. In the first he is standing before a rock and a pond, with his hand on a sign with unreadable words and a picture of a duck. In the second image he is sitting on a park bench in a garden in front of a different sign and holding up a map. Text: Monash Public Library Service Storywalk “Oliver loves maps….the perfect way to increase children's spatial awareness.” Slide 12 Image: A smiling person who is wearing a sports uniform is throwing a netball to three small children who have their backs to the camera. They appear to be inside a gym and someone is playing badminton in the background. Text: Active Monash Aquatics & Leisure / Recreation Services Oakleigh Recreation Centre Redevelopment “The players can come and have fun no matter their level.” Slide 13 Image: There are two photographs. The first is a portrait of a woman pictured from waist up with folded arms posing for the camera. The second image is an outdoor picture of a building with 30 images similar images of different people. Tree leaves overhanging the view frames the photograph. Text: Cultural Development & Events and Monash Gallery of Art Caregivers Photo Mural for Clayton Festival 2021 “Seeing our portraits together as Caregivers makes us feel a stronger spirit.” Slide 14 Image: A man in a suit jacket and jeans is standing and speaking in front of a floodlit green curtain. The room is empty except for him, a chair, some electronic equipment and a man in headphones who is operating a camera on a tripod and filming the first person. Text: Community Partnerships & Health Promotion Joint Council Online Health & Wellbeing series: Men’s Health Week Presentation “I can share with my boys - that it is ok to have your dreams & to strive to achieve them, but it is equally ok to say this is not for me.” Slide 15 Image: A book is open and shows two pages. On the left page are twelve colourful smiling pictures of people in homelike settings, including two children. Some of the people appear to have food in front of them, some are in traditional cultural dress while others are in modern western clothing. The opposite page depicts a central plate of delicious looking food, including dips, flatbread, lettuce, chilli, on top of a bright tablecloth. There are also two other bowls of food nearby. The hands of four different people are reaching in to take food from the plate. One of the hands is wearing bracelets and has a henna tattoo. Underneath the photo in the book reads “Flavours of Monash”. There is a City of Monash Council logo on each page, which is appears like an “m’ with the negative space beneath the mm shape coloured solid white. Text: Cultural Development & Events and Community Wellbeing Flavours of Monash Community Cookbook, Podcasts and Cook-Along Video “The whole process left a deep impression on me.” Slide 16 Image: The photo depicts a colourful space on the footpath adjacent to a road and carpark with many cars parked. The ground has several hexagonal shaped tiles of both artificial grass and a wood-like finish. There are some hexagonal shaped tables or seats in the wood-like finish. An outdoor umbrella is in the background. There are also six shapes that could be used to sit on, that appear to be brightly coloured raised letters. There is a black barrier between the seating area and the road. Text: Neighbourhoods & Placemaking and City Design Parklets “During lockdown it was wonderful to buy a takeaway coffee and sit in the sunshine in this new meeting area. Lovely space, clean and COVID-19 safe”. Slide 17 Image: There is a colourful artwork dividing into four quadrants. The top left says “Practice compassion discover salvation” is a stylised hand drawn text with stars and a love heart with a background of hand drawn flowers and leaves. The top right quadrant depicts a drawing of a portrait a woman. The left bottom quadrant depicts a stylised sun rising over green hills, with rows of flowers, three trees and three multistorey buildings with a rainbow path leading to each. The bottom right quadrant shows two hands with rainbow-like lines below them, opening up to a glass with a stem half filled with blue and wavy lines, and the top half filled with images such as flowers, love hearts, leaves, a red cross. A snake is wrapped around the glass with its tongue out. The background shows stars and the words “care wellness community trust”. Text: Community Partnerships & Health Promotion Quick Response Grants – Treasures of Oakleigh “Making connections with other members of our community.” Slide 18 Image: Three children are playing at a table with different shaped blocks. One is trying to hand one to another. A woman knelling next to them watches on. There are shelves with children’s books in the background. The image has “Playing Fair” and “Building inclusive playgroups” written along the bottom of the photo. Text: Gender Equity and Children’s Services Playing Fair – Building Inclusive Playgroups “Through this welcoming model, we have had more fathers, grandfathers and same-sex couples participate in our playgroups, which in the past have been more difficult to engage.” Slide 19 Image: There is a screen shot of a group video conferencing call. There are nine images of participants in home-like settings, some are showing children playing and some are showing adults too. One little child looks delighted with their hands in the air. One person has chosen to just show a background of butterflies. Text: Early Years & Family Services, Online Playgroups. “I felt it was my saviour- not having family in the country meant that I needed to connect with a community that felt like family to me.” Slide 20 Image: There is a black and white photograph of a simple corrugated cardboard house with an open door, window and peaked roof, resting in stack of five different hands that are on top of each other. Text: Social Policy, Research & Health Planning Regional Local Government Homelessness & Social Housing Charter Group “The Regional Charter offers strength in numbers, in relation to advocacy for change.” Slide 21 Image: There is an artwork of a painted rising sun, with the rays as yellow dots on a blue background. There are two clock hands on the sun, in the colours of red, yellow and black, made of small squares of paper pasted onto the clock hands. Text: Cultural Development & Events and Brine Street Kindergarten NAIDOC Week: Community Animation Project “We talked about … Aboriginal Culture and how people might have told time before clocks.” Slide 22 Image: There is a room with four people in it. In the foreground are two seated people, both in masks. One is using a syringe to inject the arm of the other person. In the back ground are two people facing away from the camera in ‘scrubs’ tops, appearing busy working at tables. Text: Immunisation A very high immunisation consent card return for Year 7 (91%) and Year 10 (80%) was maintained for 2020/2021 despite 29 school visits being cancelled and replaced with 19 school community sessions due to COVID-19 remote learning. Slide 23 Image: Ten people are standing in a foyer and posing for the camera. All have broad, bright smiles and are raising their hands in different gestures, such as the peace sign, thumbs up, or the finger heart gesture. Text: Community Wellbeing Community Ambassadors "I feel valued to have the opportunity to contribute to my local community.” Slide 24 Image: There are two photos. The first shows children crawling on a large log in a bushland setting, with a weathered paling fence behind them. The second shows three children crouching on the ground on leaf litter, and a fourth lying on the log face down and reaching or pointing. One child is showing another something in their hand. Text: Sustainable Monash/Horticulture Bush Kinder Spaces “Lots of imaginative play and observations happened around the log and rocks, which is a great start to the Nature Kinder Program this year.” Slide 25 Image: A cursive script reading “# This is Monash” is diagonally placed across the slide. Text: Year 4 2020-2021 A healthy and resilient Monash: Integrated Plan The way we adapted our services during the pandemic will allow us to reach more people and support the community now and in the future. # this is Monash. Slide 26 Image: The City of Monash logo, which is a white M shape which is solid in the negative space beneath the M. Text: City of Monash. www.monash vic.gov.au/healthplan End of video