Partnership
*Southern Investing for Health Partnership
*Craigavon Arts in Motion
*Southern Area Older People's Mental Health Forum
*Inclusive Mobility Transport Advisory Committee
(Further details provided below)
Southern Investing for Health Partnership
Terms of Reference:
The main purpose of the Investing for Health Partnership is to identify opportunities for improving the health of the people of the southern area by addressing the social, cultural, economic and environmental determinants of health. The Partnership also has the opportunity to contribute to the task of identifying needs and priorities and assessing options for meeting them.
Investing for Health Goals:
· To improve the health of our people by increasing the length of their lives and increasing the number years they spend free from disease and disability.
· To reduce inequalities in health between geographic areas, socio-economic and minority groups.
Investing for Health Objectives:
· To reduce poverty in families with children.
· To enable all people and young people in particular to develop the skills and attitudes that will give them the capacity to reach their full potential and make healthy choices.
· To promote mental health and emotional well-being at individual and community level.
· To offer everyone the opportunity to live and work in a healthy environment and to live in a decent affordable home.
· To improve our neighbourhoods and wider environment.
· To reduce accidental injuries and deaths in the home, workplace and from collisions on the road.
· To enable people to make healthier choices.
The main partnership meets twice per year and partners include Armagh City & District Council, Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council, Southern Education & Library Board, Southern Health & Social Care Trust, Craigavon Borough Council, Southern Health & Social Services Board, Banbridge District Council, Southern Group Environmental Health Service, Newry & Mourne District Council, N. Ireland Housing Executive, Banbridge Local Strategy Partnership, Southern Health and Social Services Council, South Tyrone Area Partnership Local Strategy Partnership, Newry Local Strategy Partnership, TADA Rural Network, Craigavon Local Strategy Partnership, Craigavon/Banbridge T.A.S.S.K Healthy Living Centre, Armagh/Dungannon Health Action Zone, Newry & Mourne Wellbeing Action Partnership and Armagh Local Strategy Partnership.
Contact Lyn Donnelly, Investing for Health Manager
T: 028 3741 4606
Craigavon Arts in Motion
Terms of reference:
C-AIM aims to raise the profile of the arts and creativity in the Craigavon area, showcase the excellent work happening locally, to increase access to the arts and advise council on the strategic development for arts needs and opportunities in the area.
Craigavon Arts in Motion are a voluntary arts forum made up of Craigavon people from a range of interests. The C-AIM forum is run by Craigavon Borough Council's Arts Development Team and focuses on meeting the needs of individual artists and groups interested in exploring their creativeness in Craigavon. As well as the Community Network Craigavon, C-AIM is made up of representative from, the Millennium Court Arts Centre, the Creative Youth Partnership, The Chrysalis Centre, local arts and crafts groups, local councillors, and several individual artists.
Contact: The Arts Team
T: 028 3831 1680
Southern Area Older People's Mental Health Forum
The forum meets 6 times per year and partners include Southern Area Health Promotion Department, Newry and Mourne Volunteer Centre, Armagh and Dungannon Volunteer Centre, Alzheimer's Society and Age Concern and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
Contact: Angela Corr
e: Health.Promotion@southerntrust.hscni.net
t: 02837412424
Inclusive Mobility Transport Advisory Committee
Aim:
We aim to ensure that disabled people and older people have the same opportunities as everyone else to travel when and where they want.
The Inclusive Mobility and Transport Advisory Committee (Imtac) is a committee of disabled people and older people as well as others including key transport professionals. Our role is to advise Government and others in Northern Ireland on issues that affect the mobility of older people and disabled people.
Contact: Jill Shanks
t: 02890 297885