Health Steering Group

Community Development - Health Worker

This project was borne out of the you the local Community, BDCP, PCT and Fit for the Future who all have invested interests in making this Community more Healthier.

What is the aim of this project?

The overall aim is to raise awareness within your community of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and to assist in the provision of the means for residents to achieve a healthy lifestyle.

Objectives

To work with local residents and workers to identify factors
Impacting on health in the Dearne area
With local residents and workers, work towards solutions to identified health needs
Instigate, organize and encourage health promoting activities
Help ensure that local agencies are aware of health needs and solutions proposed by community members, and contribute to the development of relevant strategic plans
To identify resources to develop projects/services for people within

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How do we achieve this?

Through working with diverse community groups to help implement a cultural change and encourage the provision of resources and community projects

We need to make it easier for people to make healthier choices making the choice the easy choice. This cannot be achieved without you the community.

The evidence clearly shows that health promotion programmes are most effective when they involve you the community at all stages from strategy development to project delivery.

We believe working with local people, as volunteers and paid workers, will be important part of developing our strategy.

If you would like to join us on our health steering group and have your say or ideas what you think might work in your community then please come along. The meetings are very informal contact me on the following details for dates and times:-

Suzanne Storey (Community Development Health Worker)
BDCP Unit 30 Thurnscoe Business Centre
Princess Drive
Thurnscoe
ROTHERHAM S63 0BL

Tel: 01709 893217
Fax: 01709 548486
Email: Suzanne.health@bdcp.com