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Mental <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Promotion</strong> in Northern Ireland<br />

CATEGORY 1<br />

Project name<br />

Contact name<br />

Address<br />

Age Concern Northern Ireland<br />

Chris Common, Director<br />

Age Concern Northern Ireland<br />

3 Lower Crescent<br />

Belfast<br />

BT7 1NR<br />

Telephone number 01232 245729<br />

Brief description of project<br />

Objectives<br />

Age Concern is a national voluntary organisation committed, through<br />

campaigning and service provision to promoting the rights of older<br />

people as active, involved and equal citizens. Much of the work relates<br />

to combating social isolation.<br />

• To develop and promote the campaigning role of Age Concern<br />

Northern Ireland.<br />

• To develop a full range of quality services to meet the needs of older<br />

people.<br />

• To work co-operatively with Age Concern groups and other<br />

organisations to meet the needs of older people.<br />

Outcomes: Planned Direct Social Care – including residential, day care, social centres,<br />

advice and information, home care.<br />

Community Development – including 29 Age Concern local groups<br />

Ageing Well Schemes, capacity building projects, ‘user’ panels, Better<br />

Government for older people initiatives.<br />

Campaigning – including social policy analysis, International Year of<br />

Older Persons, 1999, Millennium Debate of the Age, etc.<br />

Evaluation<br />

Report available.<br />

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