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Registrations are now OPEN for FREE Online Summer Art Camp, specially designed for teens (age 13-15) living with a lifelong physcial health condition. Helium Arts are so excited to bring back our ONLINE workshops so more young people can join in with a free Helium Arts workshop from home or even from their hospital bed!

Artist, Emma Fisher, will deliver a 3 day animation and storytelling camp, July 4th, 5th & 6th with morning and afternoon times available. Online Zoom registration and link to be provided. You will receive everything you need, in advance of the camp, through activity sheets dropped in your inbox with step-by-step guides, surprise postal drops, art materials and virtual sharing.

 

About Our Camps

Helium Arts offer free, specially designed art workshops for children and young people living with a lifelong physical health condition. A lifelong physical health condition is one which can be treated and managed but usually not cured.  Examples include diabetes, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, allergies, heart conditions, chronic asthma, spina bifida, juvenile arthritis, rare or complex conditions and many more.

Living with a lifelong physical health conditions is hard.  Children can face loneliness, stress, anxiety, and feel defined by their condition. They experience: stigma associated with their condition, social isolation, loneliness and fewer quality friendships. Our camps are a great opportunity for these children to not only explore their creativity but also to make new friends, learn new life skills, grow in confidence and self-esteem and have fun.

In 2017, Navan School Completion Programme (NSCP) staff team with the support of Meath CYPSC, LMETB and Meath Springboard Family Support Services developed a workbook called;

“Mind the Gap” Transition Steps from Primary to Post Primary

The main aim of the workbook and its associated video is to assist young people successfully transfer from primary to secondary school. It encompasses exercises to help pupils negotiate second level time tables, teacher expectations, new environments and the journey from established social groups into new social relations.

In response to the needs of 6^th Class pupils during this time of the academic year, the Mind The Gap Steering Committee have taken the generous decision to continue to make the successful Workbook available online as a pdf. Please click on the link below to access the Mind The Gap Workbook.

Navan School Completion Programme MindtheGap Workbook

Hard copies of the Mind the Gap Workbook are available and can be ordered through [email protected]. The workbooks are very reasonably priced at €2 each to facilitate mass distribution. The Mind the Gap Steering Committee note from their experience that children absorb the learning best when completing hard copy material.

The online video resource that accompanies the workbook can be accessed by clicking on the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5eQVbZBs3I

To coincide with World No Tobacco Day 2023 – 31^st May, the HSE Meath Health Promotion and Improvement (HP&I) team are delighted to announce the start of a new stop smoking service in County Meath.  Improving the health and wellbeing of Ireland’s population continues to be a national priority and a key element of Sláintecare reform.  The HSE Health Promotion and Improvement team are delivering stop smoking services in a continued effort to support a Tobacco Free Ireland.  More information can be found here about the Tobacco Free Ireland Programme.

 HSE Stop Smoking Programme

We aim to reduce the long term health impact caused by smoking through a client focused, structured standard treatment programme which includes one to one support – face to face, online or over the phone.  The HSE Stop Smoking Programme provides intensive behavioural support delivered over a minimum of 9 sessions.  Clients may be eligible up to 12 weeks FREE Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT, medical card holders can access FREE NRT via their GP.)

• Session 1: Pre-quit Assessment
• Session 2: Quit Date
• Session 3: 1 week post Quit Date
• Session 4: 2 weeks post Quit Date
• Session 5: 3 weeks post Quit Date
• Session 6: 4 weeks post Quit Date
• Additional follow up at 12, 26 and 52 weeks post Quit Date

How to Refer?

Our stop smoking clinics are open to everyone and referrals can be made in a number of ways:

• GP/Practice Nurse/Health Professionals – via Healthlinks, phone or by emailing the attached referral form to either [email protected] or [email protected]
• Self-referral by calling Claire 087 452 8454 or Kate 087 451 2808
• HSE Quit Line

Location of clinics  

Face to Face clinics are currently being held weekly in Kells and Navan.

 Supporting people to stop smoking

We hope by Making Every Contact Count (MECC) you and your team can encourage people to make healthier choices and inform them about or refer them to our service.

Meath QUIT Flyer

The next SOS Supporters Programme will start next week online over Zoom.  It is an 8-hour programme held over 3 sessions. We are currently recruiting participants for the programme. The dates are as follows –

• Thursday 1^st June 6pm to 9pm
• Thursday 8^th June 6pm to 9pm
• Thursday 15^th June 6pm to 8pm

The Supporter’s Programme is for anyone who is supporting a loved one (spouse, relative, friend etc) who is struggling with their mental health.  The programme teaches supporters practical skills they can use to support their loved ones, it gives information on what supports are available and how they can be accessed and teaches practical ways of looking after your own mental health while supporting someone else.

Participants have said that alongside the practical skills learned, the programme has increased their confidence in their existing support skills, helped them to focus more on self-care, and provided an opportunity for them to connect with others who are in a supporter role, so they feel less alone.

If you know of anyone who may benefit from attending they can find out more and apply for a place on the programme here https://tinyurl.com/SuppApply or by contacting Catherine at [email protected] or phoning 01 2722158.

Please find below details for online information session on AIM supports for parents.

It is running on the 31^st May from 6.30 – 7.30 and here is the link to more information and to book a place: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/aim-information-session-for-parents-tickets-631479641607