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Background
This innovative public health project is funded by the Ministry of Health and is implemented through Auckland City Council. It works with the community and community workers to develop projects to improve the health and wellbeing of Glen Innes.
The project focuses on involving communities as effective partners for determining their own health needs. The project has been acknowledged nationally for its success in working with the community.
Objectives
- to facilitate local participatory research and inquiry, focusing on local experiences and processes
- to facilitate inter-sectoral and inter-agency collaboration for promoting community health and well being
- to strengthen communities and build social capital through participation, innovative action and empowerment
- to develop and support innovative action around health determinants to reduce health inequalities in specific areas
- to provide a platform for community workers for interactive learning and sharing, and provide specific action to strengthen skills
- to facilitate a knowledge centred approach by supporting generation of, access to, and use of knowledge for sustainable community development.
Achievements
- 2003 National Local Government Community Development Award
- 2004 Auckland City Service Quality Award.
Projects and activities
Listed below is a selection of the projects and activities that the Glen Innes Health Project is currently involved in:
Glen Innes Health Project Working Group
The working group is a monthly open forum for the community and community workers to come together and discuss health issues in Glen Innes and possible
solutions. It allows networking among community members and encourages them to form collaborative
Te Awhi Tangata (To embrace, nurture and support the people)
This project aims to support a
healthy active lifestyle in Glen Innes by offering free support and advice on healthy lifestyles. It focuses on improving health through better nutrition,
increasing exercise levels and smoking cessation. Opportunities are provided for people to participate in safe, accessible and affordable physical activity.
Participants are encouraged to improve their lifestyle and wellbeing, and when a certain level has been achieved, they graduate from the programme.
Community Link was established by graduates of Te Awhi Tangata and it is a community group working towards empowering and promoting a healthier lifestyle
with more physical activity in the Glen Innes community. The Glen Innes Health Project and ProCare support the group.
Growing Families
This project is in collaboration with The Salvation Army, Sport Auckland, Plunket, Ngati Whatua o Orakei Health, Glen Innes Library and Glen Innes
Health Project. Seven weekly sessions are held to promote parenthood and celebrate the family unit. The project has a strengths based approach where
parents are able to work on such things as self-esteem, nutrition and community participation; it also incorporates an active movement programme delivered
by Sport Auckland.
Healthy Kai
The Glen Innes Healthy Kai group was established to assist in promoting, and thereby extending, the range of ready to eat healthy and safe choices available
at the Glen Innes shopping centre. The group helps to ensure the viability of healthy choices by working with retailers, local health providers, other
stakeholders and their own community links. The group is a partnership between Auckland Regional Public Health Service, Ruapotaka Marae, NZ National Heart
Foundation, ProCare, Hapai Te Hauora Tapui Ltd, Community Child Health and Disability Service, Tamaki Healthcare, Glen Innes Business Association and the
Glen Innes Health Project.
Healthy Kai was launched in November 2006 with events planned for 2007.
Women's health hui
This is a project aims to improve the knowledge of Glen Innes women on breast and cervical cancer.
The Glen Innes Health Project, in collaboration with Well Woman's Nursing Service (WONS), Primary Health Organisation ProCare and Ka Mau Te Wero, held
the first ever Women's Health Hui for the women of Glen Innes in 2005.
Designed to be a fun, informative and interactive event, the aim of the hui is to educate women about issues that affect their health and enable them to
make informed choices about their health care. Using a combination of presentations, group discussions and displays, attendees learn about
women's health services such as breast and cervical screening, HRT and menopause. Attendees are encouraged to interact and are able to ask questions
that they would normally be too embarrassed or uncomfortable to raise.
Enquiries
Contact us if you have any enquiries about these projects.
