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Catch Me Before I Fall

‘Catch Me Before I Fall’ – sometimes known as ‘The Great Project’ – was developed by Walsall Council Creative Development Team to encourage people with a learning disability to become regular users of existing leisure services in Walsall.

‘Catch Me Before I Fall’ was financed by a Communities For Health (Public Health) fund and the Creative Development Team worked in partnership with Walsall Learning Disability Partnership Board and third sector organisation Mencap to deliver the project.
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World Diabetes Day 2010

Walsall Arts into Health were invited to suggest a menu of potential activities for an event in Sandwell on World Diabetes Day 2010.
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‘My.Space’ Acorns Children’s Hospice

…providing the time, space and support for meaningful creative expression and sensory arts experiences for children and young people at Acorns Children’s Hospice
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Health, Wealth and Happiness – Smoking in Pregnancy project

NHS Walsall Lifestyle Services teamed up with Walsall Council Creative Development Team (WCDT) to find out if other ways of promoting / offering the NHS Walsall Smoking in Pregnancy service would be attractive to those who are choosing not to access.
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The Weight’s Over

Walsall Men’s Health & Obesity Consultation Project
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One Call For All- Lifestyle Link

A social marketing project to increase the uptake of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Lifestyle Services through the promotion of the new ‘One Call for All’ single phone line and online booking system. The Creative Development Team worked in collaboration with Blue and White Creative to deliver the project which involved research and creative consultation to inform the development of new promotional resources and media campaigns.
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Goscote Monumental Arts Project

With funding from NHS Walsall and Arts Council England West Midlands a participatory arts project has been commissioned to lead on community engagement within the build process of the new Walsall hospice in Goscote, resulting in the design and installation of bespoke pieces of public art work within the grounds and building of the centre.
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Fun 4 Life

A creative consultation project was commissioned in March 2009 aiming to inform the delivery and structure of Fun 4 Life sessions and the development of a branded website. The project captured the personal journeys of participants, and enabled the exploration of:
- expectations
- motivations
- aspirations
- attitudes and perceptions
- learning / skills developed
- challenges
- personal experiences
- goals achieved
- and benefits / impact.
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Family Fun

‘Family Fun’ project looked to use creative and interactive approaches to consultation and evaluation to gather family’s thoughts, experiences and feedback on the ‘Family Fun’ sessions run as part of the NHS Community Health – Healthy Lifestyles Team physical activity programme delivered across the borough.
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TAXI!

TAXI explored the links between community arts practice and social marketing principles, developing a project which maximises the benefits of each approach with a focus on encouraging local taxi drivers to review their lifestyle and make positive changes to their health and well being. The project was funded by the Department of Health through the Communities for Health programme.
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Map my Journey

Map my Journey encouraged service users of NHS Walsall Lifestyle Services to reflect and share their experiences of the services they have come in contact with. A two day event was facilitated which allowed participants to take a journey through a series of interactive stands and ‘checkpoints’.
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Children and Young Peoples Emotional Wellbeing Strategy Consultation

NHS Walsall identified the need to develop a Children’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing strategy for Walsall to ensure partners and stakeholders have clarity over their roles, responsibilities and pathways to appropriate support and care for young people. The involvement of young people in this process was deemed essential to ensure that the strategy was developed in an informed way.
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Step by step with May and June

What does food really mean to us and what can we do for people who are literally eating themselves to an early grave?
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Fit Food

‘FIT FOOD’ is a child friendly, interactive DVD resource with supporting teacher’s lesson plans and guidelines and children’s activity book which has been developed to support the Key Stage 2 PSHE curriculum. The DVD resource includes film, animation, drama, music, interviews, research and humour to explore topic areas around healthy eating, nutrition and physical activity.
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Help I’m Hairy

More than 80 local primary schools know a great way to start talking about puberty…
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In My Shoes

Bringing staff and patients a few feet closer…
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Antibiotics Project

“A picture paints a thousand words. No matter how many posters we put up or leaflets we give out there will always be a demand for inappropriate antibiotics. We hope this wonderful arts into health project will help people in Walsall to look after their own health.”
East locality lead pharmacist
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Confronting Chlamydia

As Chlamydia infection reaches an all-time high amongst teenagers, we get serious with a board game and ‘Frisky Risky’ toolkit to target the issue.
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Walsall Health Trainers publicity resources

How do we encourage men to use the unique local health trainers service?
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