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Healthy start to 2021

If healthier eating was one of your New Year resolutions, then you will be interested in this series of free online workshops on food and nutrition.
Making the most of your food parcel

Simple recipes to produce more balanced meals on a budget. Click on the link below to access this handy guide from the WHSCT, ‘Get cooking...making the most of your food parcel’
Derry City & Strabane unites with the WHO European Region to stop COVID-19 and build a better urban life

The Derry City & Strabane District's Deputy Lord Mayor joined local authority colleagues from across Europe to analyse good practices and to find ways to build back better.
Hope is a teachable skill

Free training programme available for Community & Voluntary organisations in the Western Trust area. Hope Matters is a new skills programme developed by RESILIO.

What are countries doing to make their citizens more active?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published country factsheets and reports show successful strategies to keep citizens physically active
Online courses from Aware NI

Places are available on Aware NI’s upcoming Mood Matters Workshop and Living Life to the Full wellbeing course
Chief Medical Officer welcomes findings from young people’s survey on smoking, alcohol and drugs

Report finds that fewer young people are smoking, drinking or using drugs.
WHO webinar on Trauma Informed Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Learn about the WHO free webinar on Trauma Informed Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Department of Health Mental Health Action Plan

In April 2020, the Department for Health in Northern Ireland committed to create a Mental Health Champion and to this Action Plan which contains commitments to review and develop services, and to ready the system for the 10 year Mental Health Strategy.