Heart and Soul

A Building Healthy Communities and Dumfries and Galloway College Partnership

A new initiative is in the process of being set up by Building Healthy Communities in partnership with Dumfries and Galloway College.  This initiative is aimed at overweight men over the age of 45.

Heart and Soul will comprise a cardio workout and Tai Chi for Health and Wellbeing.  The cardio workout will be personalised for each participant and will take place in the state of the art gym at the college – this group will have exclusive use of the gym for these sessions.  Tai Chi for Health will also be offered as part of this package and this will be led by fully trained Building Healthy Communities’ Tai Chi instructors.

This is a tremendous opportunity and anyone interested should contact me (helenmackintosh1@nhs.net) as soon as possible to secure a place as spaces are limited.

Please note that this service is offered completely free of charge.

A brief outline of what will be offered by PVG checked 2^nd year HND students: -

• Applied Nutrition and Health Assessment
• Fitness Assessment and Diagnostic Testing
• Applied Exercise Prescription for Special Population Groups
• Plan, Teach and Evaluate a Physical Activity Programme to Meet the Needs of Older Adults

Ideally we are looking to work with clients with at least one of the following conditions:

• Coronary heart disease
• Stroke
• Obesity
• Diabetes (Type I or II)
• Osteoporosis
• Hypertension
• High cholesterol
• Food allergies and/or intoleerances

The course will consist of: -

• Introductory meetings to get to know the client
• Detailed health and lifestyle assessment 
• Static and dymanic fitness tests suitable to the client 
• Health related fitness tests
• Written feedback and comparison of results to normative data
• Plan to carry out a nutritional assessment with the client
• Complete a week long food diary
• Analyse the results and interpret nutritional feedback to the client
• Prescribe nutritional advice to clients
• Prepare and deliver an exercise session suitibler for the client
• The aim for 2015/2016 is to prepare and deliver a 12 week exercise programme for a selected individual

CREATIVE COMMUNITY

A partnership art and literacy project between Community Learning and Development and Building Healthy Communities whereby eight people will work together with the ultimate goal of their work being displayed publicly. 

This project aims to: -

• To produce individual pieces of art which will be transferred onto boards for display in rooms within the North West Resource Centre and possibly the exterior of the building
• To produce a short piece of creative writing to accompany the art
• To produce an amalgamation of the boards this can be used for publicity purposes
• To celebrate the completed works through an exhibition

This will all take place over a 16 week period and will comprise: -

• Start with Art for the first 6 weeks
• Creative Writing for 4 weeks
• Working on Art piece for 6 weeks

The places for this particular initiative have all been filled; however, opportunities do exist for participation in other BHC led art and creative writing sessions.  Please see and complete our current note of interest to be considered for a place.

Dumfries and Galloway Mirco-markets project

To view the project leaflet please click here.

Dumfries and Galloway Wellness & Recovery College

The Dumfries and Galloway Wellness and Recovery College (Course Guide)

The Dumfries and Galloway Wellness and Recovery College, is a local initiative that delivers a range of wellness and recovery focussed learning and development opportunities. Courses will provide students with a range of learning opportunities, these may include: 

• Learning skills and strategies to cope with challenging times, for example in relation to change and loss
• Strengthening personal coping skills
• Developing and maintaining positive relationships
• Helping to understand personal responses to situations  

Courses vary in content and length. You may be interested in signing up for just one course or more.

To view the course guide please click here.

To view the courses available click here.

For more information please contact the BHC Office.

Day Opportunities Fund

Building Healthy Communities Launch Invitation

Please click here to view Invitation.

Building Healthy Communities Premises Launch

Please click here to view the poster.

c4urself

The latest newsletter from C4urself full of helpful and informative items. It features the National Sexual Health Campaign. 'Sex It's Healthy to Talk about it, information on sexting, pornography, local information on STI's, new leaflets and much more. This edition also contains an education pack on grooming which has been produced by Barnardo’s called Sex, Secrets and Lies.This is a very useful resource which contains information on :

·        The signs and indicators

·        Vulnerabilities which may lead to exploitation/abuse

·        Being safe – tricks used by abusers

Click on link below to read

http://www.c4urself.org.uk/downloads/Newsletter22.pdf

The National Osteoporosis Society

The National Osteoporosis Society

Invites you to

Managing Osteoporosis: looking after your Bones

A Medical Update

Dr Anne Drever, Lead Clinician, Osteoporosis

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

Osteoporosis in Dumfries & Galloway

Sister Katrina Martin, Menopause/ Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

Osteoporosis and Exercise

Katie Begg, Community Physiotherapist

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

Wednesday 11^th June 2014

2pm – 3:30pm

At the Empire Suite

Cairndale Hotel, 132-136 English Street

Dumfries DG1 2DF

please note that access to The Empire Suite is

next to the car park at the rear of the hotel

Tea/coffee/biscuits will be served from 3:30pm

A small donation would be welcome to support the work of the Charity

For further information please contact:

Anne Simpson

Development Manager for Scotland

Tel: 01698 811 171

Alcohol Awareness Week

Building Healthy Communities in Dumfries & Lower Nithsdale provided an information session to support Alcohol Awareness Week where members of the community were given the opportunity of taking part in a “true or false” quiz to test their awareness of the effects of alcohol. 

Addiction Dance Company

“Boogie on Down…” – A dance fitness class was identified as a need for local people of all ages and abilities.  This took place within the Summerhill Community Centre with dance instructors from the Addiction Dance Company – a good time was had by all who attended.