Schools and Universities

The Push-Up Challenge is great for schools and universities.

  • No cost and very easy to get involved
  • Fosters a positive community environment where people encourage each other
  • Gives your students (and teachers) something new to be a part of
  • Allows your students to learn about mental health

There are 3 steps to getting your school or university involved:

1

Register

Register as a participant (you will then be the team captain).

2

Create a Team

Create a team (super easy to do once you have registered).

3

Invite people in your Team

Once you are registered, we recommend setting up a Community for your school or university to share. Then, people can have teams that sit within that institution. For instance, you may want to create a Community for your school, then have different teams for different classes or years etc. We recommend that teams don't have more than 20 people in them. To learn more about Communities, check this out check this out.

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Getting involved is very easy

  • No cost and very easy to get involved;
  • Fosters a positive community environment where people encourage each other;
  • Gives your people something new to be a part of;
  • Allows your people to learn about mental health.

The Push-Up Challenge is a unique way to engage people in mental health

  • Runs over 25 days in June (1st - 25th)
  • 3,318 push-ups in total, representing the number of people who died by suicide in Australia in 2020
  • Track your own and your team's progress online
  • Get fit
  • Learn about mental health
  • Fund raise for mental health (optional)

Mental health tips are interwoven into the event

Advice

A different mental health tip is offered to participants every day.

Scientific background

These tips were practical and grounded in science.

Feedback

The feedback around these tips in 2020 was overwhelmingly positive.

Learn

98% of participants said they learnt something about mental health.

The fun and easy to use Tracker encourages engagement and facilitates learning

Note that the app will be made available in the days leading up to the event. All those who have registered will have access. If a participant doesn’t user a smart phone, hard copy versions will be available to download.

  • See daily targets
  • Enter pushups
  • See how others are going
  • Learn about mental health

Last year people from various backgrounds were involved from all over Australia were

Leah Benoit

65yo, Hobart

Took pride in completing the event as part of her fitness group.

“It was a great challenge and I’m proud of my accomplishment”

Christy

35yo, Perth

Engaged over 50 of her colleagues to take part on an offshore oil platform 400km NW of Broome.

“The comradery this built was amazing. We’re already looking forward to next year”

Daryl

48yo, Maitland

Took part with over 20 people from his gym.

“Just awesome. Can't wait for the next event. We’re now looking for something similar before the next event!”

The event is setup so that there are communities, teams and individuals


Some people may just take part as an individual, some in a team and some may take part in a team that is part of a greater community.

An example of a community could be an organisation with various teams within it and various members in those teams.

We recommend a team size of no greater than 20 (less than 10 is ideal).

Would you like to know more? Have a crack at the below and we'll send you some info.

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