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Minister Frank Feighan TD to Launch Tallaght Sláintecare Healthy Communities

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30/09/2022

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Minister Frank Feighan TD to Launch Tallaght Sláintecare Healthy Communities

 

On Thursday, 6 October Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and National Drugs Strategy, Frank Feighan TD will visit Fettercairn Community and Youth Centre to launch Tallaght as a Sláintecare Healthy Community site.  The Tallaght Sláintecare catchment areas are Fettercairn, Jobstown, Killinardin, Tymon and Avonbeg.

Introduced nationally in 2021, Sláintecare Healthy Communities is a cross-Government initiative to deliver increased health and wellbeing services in 19 areas of greatest need across Ireland.

The launch of Tallaght Sláintecare Healthy Community is the successful culmination of close collaboration between many partners. These partners include the Department of Health, the HSE, South Dublin County Council, South Dublin Partnership and Barnardos. 

The launch will take place at 11am in Fettercairn Community and Youth Centre with a number of guest speakers including Mayor Emma Murphy, Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and National Drugs Strategy, Frank Feighan TD, Margaret McQuillan, HSE Dublin, South Kildare, West Wicklow Head of Health and Wellbeing and Colm Ward, Director of Services, Housing, Social and Community Development, in South Dublin County Council.

The event will highlight the Sláintecare Healthy Communities programmes that have been established across the Tallaght area. The Healthy Community programmes aim to support people’s wellbeing within the community and provide better access to a range of services needed to help improve and promote healthier lifestyle behaviours. This work is supported by the Sláintecare Community Enhancement Fund which provided €250, 000 to deliver projects that will assist and impact on the health and wellbeing of people living in the Tallaght area. The projects include: 

  • Period poverty initiative with the Youth Homeless Support Service, Foroige;
  • Active families project, South Dublin County Partnership;  
  • Part funding of a MUGA, Citywise Education;  
  • Healthy exercise route in MacUilliam Estate;
  • Sensory garden and adult changing room, St Aengus Community Centre and; 
  • Two resilience programmes for young women, Sports Partnership.

 

The work is also supported by a HSE Sláintecare Healthy Community Coordinator Áine Buggy and the South Dublin County Council, Tallaght Sláintecare Healthy Communities Local Development Officer Gráinne Meehan.Tallaght Sláintecare Healthy Community programmes include:

  • Programmes to support people to stop smoking:
  • Stop Smoking Advisor – Offering one to one support and access to free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, lozenges, gum and mouth-spray) to those who wish to quit smoking.
  • We Can Quit – A friendly and supportive peer led stop smoking group delivered locally for men and women. It offers free Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, lozenges, gum and mouth-spray) to help people quit smoking and stay quit for good.
  • Making Every Contact Count – Empowering local health professionals to deliver brief interventions and advice for patients to support healthy behaviours.
  • Social Prescribing – A Social Prescribing link worker works with individuals to reduce social isolation and link them into community activities and services.
  • Parenting Programmes – Triple P (Positive Parenting Programme) aims to promote positive caring relationships between children, teenagers and their parents and to support parents in managing common behaviour and development issues through enhancing parents’ knowledge, skills and confidence.
  • Healthy Food Made Easy – Community delivery of healthy cooking and nutrition programme. It offers insight into nutrition and cookery courses that helps people to change to a healthy diet, plan meals on a budget and make easy to cook meals.

All are welcome to attend the event, please confirm your attendance by following the link below. RSVP is required. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/416601374927

Spokespeople are available on request.

 

ENDS

 

For more information contact:

 South Dublin County Council Communications team on: communications@sdublincoco.ie

Or

HSE Dublin South, Kildare, West Wicklow Communications team on communications.cho7@hse.ie

 

 

 

 

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