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Mental Health Promotion in Northern Ireland CATEGORY 1 Project name Contact name Address Management of Pressure Una Curran, Occupational Health Sister Marks and Spencer 48 Donegall Place Belfast BT1 5BY Telephone number 01232 235235 Brief description of project Objectives This course is aimed at staff who are undergoing some sort of development, ie promotion, change of category, mobility. • To help staff to avoid stress through enabling them to understand where the pressure in their lives comes from. • To demonstrate additional coping skills to help them manage pressure better. Outcomes: Planned Staff who understand pressure and their reaction to it can alter their behaviour or at least learn to manage themselves better and guard against a great deal of stress. Project name Contact name Address Telephone number Brief description of project Objectives Health Perceptions Project Brenda McHugh (East Belfast) Jo Murphy (North Belfast) 524-544 Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3HE 01232 702889 (East Belfast) 01232 741188 (North Belfast) Research project undertaken in four communities in inner city Belfast, where a participatory process was used to involve local residents in defining their own views of the factors which influence their health. The project is now in an implementation phase, where work is ongoing to develop responses to the issues raised by various age groups and by both men and women in each areas. The project was undertaken to inform health promotion services, to help target resources and approaches more appropriately in areas which score high in deprivation indices. The objectives were: • To involve local people. • To identify issues which people believed influenced their health. • To work with people to begin to address the issues. Outcomes: Actual • Development of strategy for health for each area. • Community Research Groups for health issues established in each area. • Practical examples of work identified, eg work with young people and young teenage mothers. 20
Mental Health Promotion in Northern Ireland CATEGORY 1 Project name Contact name Address Chinese Health Project (Barnardos) Una Goan (Team Leader) 100 Lisburn Road Belfast BT9 6AG Telephone number 01232 668766 Brief description of project Objectives Evaluation The Chinese Health Project is a community development project, which is a partnership between Barnardos and the Chinese Welfare Association. It employs three bilingual Chinese lay health workers in the Greater Belfast and Craigavon areas. The project’s aim is to identify the health needs of the Chinese and Vietnamese communities and to provide culturally specific health initiatives. The workers’ role includes casework with individual families which involves advocacy, support, liaison with health professionals including interpreting, skills sharing, and health promotion. The workers also facilitate two women’s groups ‘Oi-Kwan’ with 80 members in Belfast and ‘Oi-Wah’ with 37 members in Craigavon. These groups not only decrease social isolation but also provide opportunities to celebrate cultural identity. The women’s group programme also provides training and education opportunities from English classes, computer training to childcare and general health issues. • To gain greater access to and encourage greater ownership of health provision. • To promote a more preventive rather than curative approach to health. • To establish a model of lay participation by the Chinese and Vietnamese communities in the promotion of health, which is ethnically sensitive to and respectful of their cultural values and circumstances. Report available. 21
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