Children and Young People’s Health Improvement

Current IESD Grants

Changing the Game for Girls: In Action

Street Play: Active, Healthy Communities

Current IESD Grants

2014 IESD GrantsTheme 3: Improving public health Proposals that promote better public health and help reduce premature mortality. We are particularly interested in proposals that take a preventative approach across the life course in relation to the priorities set out below. Priorities: 1.) Support and enable all parts of society, particularly disadvantaged groups, to make positive changes in their lifestyle choices and behaviours that will help them to live longer, healthier lives and improve their overall wellbeing, for example, by improving diet and nutrition; increasing levels of physical activity; reducing smoking and use of tobacco products; preventing and recovering from substance misuse (drug and alcohol misuse);

2.) Promote public mental health and wellbeing at individual and community levels. Prevent suicide in high risk groups. Improve mental, physical and emotional health in the workplace.

Assets-based approach

• Focuses on the protective factors that enhance the individual’s abilities to make good decisions about their health.

• Focuses on individuals’ and communities’ positive capacity to identify problems and activate solutions, rather than factors which cause disease.

Resilience

• Resilience relates to the ability to achieve good outcomes in the face of adversity.

• Attributes that people draw on in order to be resilient differ from person to person, but commonly include:– Self-esteem– Self-confidence– Self-efficacy– Problem solving approach