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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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‘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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Feeling Good!
Creative arts sessions have focused on exploring and raising awareness to positive mental health and wellbeing and signposting to local support services, as well as developing appropriate and accessible health awareness resources through extensive consultation with children and young people.
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Diabetes Service – activity session
On 14th April 2010 Walsall Creatve Development Team – Arts into Health delivered a short workshop activity with young people who attend NHS Walsall Diabetes Service.
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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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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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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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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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