Northern Area, Causeway Coast and Glens Locality Year 8 Healthy Lifestyles Engagement projects

CYPSP in Partnership with NHSCT (Public Health Nursing, Dietetics and Health & Wellbeing Team), Northern Obesity Partnership and Causeway Coast and Glens Council are involving Year 8 pupils in the planning of activities in Dunluce High School and Coleraine College. The Year 8 Healthy Lifestyles Engagement projects are as a result of a similar pilot which involved Year 8 pupils in Our Lady of Lourdes school Ballymoney in September 2016- June 2017.

The Year 8 Healthy Lifestyles Engagements projects for 2017-2018 involves Year 8 pupils from Dunluce High School and Coleraine College. The projects are needs led through direct participation and engagement with Year 8 pupils, parents and schools through a whole year approach to deliver collectively on the important health messages encompassing nutrition, physical activity and emotional wellbeing.

 

The 1+1 Project Bilingual Mental Health Project

A collaborative Stronger Together Initiative for early intervention bilingual Mental Health Support that is being piloted in three areas across N.I:

  • Dungannon (Portuguese / English)
  • Ballymena/Ballymoney (Polish / English)
  • Belfast (Chinese / English)

The project is available to support individuals in the minority ethnic community experiencing depression.

 

What will the project do?

  • Provide Mental Health Services for example; counselling, training, direct group activities etc. These already exist. It will help increase access to them.
  • Provide free interpreting to providers who have a responsibility to deliver their services to everyone regardless of linguistic capability. The Regional Interpreting Service exists. It will help support access to that service.
  • It will help inform shared learning on how to meet that demand in the future by creating more effective and diverse pathways to existing services and more diversity in delivery of those services.

 

Click here to find out more about the project

 

Click here to download a copy of the referral form

 

Changing Childhood Conference – 22 March 2017

The CYPSP Cookstown and Magherafelt Locality Planning Groups will host a ‘Changing Childhood’ Conference in March 2017. This Conference will look at how some children and parents have become addicted to modern day technology and unhealthy food. We will discuss the effects these have on both the child and parent as well as exploring the parent child relationship, children’s behaviour, child development and modern day to day family life.

Click here to download the conference programme 

 

Conference details:

Date: 22 March 2017

Time: 9.30am – 1.00pm

Venue: The Burnavon, Cookstown

 

How to register:

The conference is open to anyone working with children, young people and families in the Northern Outcomes Area.To book a space contact Gemma Lutton by email at gemma.lutton@northerntrust.hscni.net or telephone 028 2563 6615

 

Year 8 Pupils take a lead in Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

A healthy lifestyle engagement event held on 27 October 2016 brought together 41 Year 8 pupils from Our Lady of Lourdes School encouraged young people to keep active and be better informed to make healthier lifestyle choices. The engagement event involved facilitated physical activities including dance, learning about healthy food and lifestyle choices and tasting new fruit and vegetables. Young people in partnership with CYPSP Ballymoney Locality Planning Group, the Northern Obesity Partnership, Public Health Nursing, Causeway Coast and Glens Council and teachers were involved in the planning and design of health initiatives which will be implemented at their school.

Read more – attached press release

Connections Service Networking Day – May 2016

CYPSP & NDACT held a Connections Service Networking Day on 13th May 2016 in Loughgiel Millennium Centre. All LPG members representing both Ballymoney and Moyle were invited to attend the day to gain a better understanding of the local services available. An overview of organisations attending on the day is now available as a result here.  Please see attached….