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Western Area FYI – Issue 15 – February 2025

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Your FYI is a monthly round up of all things family support and early intervention / prevention across the Western trust and beyond.

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Download Issue 15

(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears)

If you would like to contribute upcoming consultations, training, articles, or events that practitioners from the community, voluntary or statutory sectors within the Western Trust will find useful please contact:

Dr Priscilla Magee – Mobile  07880723076     priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net

Paul Sweeney – Mobile  07387259117     paul.sweeney@westerntrust.hscni.net

FREE Specialist Gaming & Gambling Harm Awareness Session – Omagh – 3 March 2025

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If you are involved in sporting groups / youth groups within your local communities please join us to develop your understanding of gaming and gambling harms, enabling you to have conversations with the children and families you work with.

When: Monday 3 March 2025, 6.30pm-7.30pm

Where: Youth Sport Omagh, Killyclogher Road, BT79 7NZ 

Image with young girl on laptop with headphones. Includes text promoting free specialist gaming and gambling harm awareness session for clubs, professional or community groups working with children and young people in the Western Trust area.

Image with young girl on laptop with headphones. Includes text promoting free specialist gaming and gambling harm awareness session for clubs, professional or community groups working with children and young people in the Western Trust area.

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For further information or, to book your place please contact Priscilla Magee: Priscilla.magee@westerntrust.hscni.net

It’s Fibre February!

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Did you know?? A high fibre diet seems to reduce the risk of bowel cancer and other chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Most of us don’t eat enough. Find out some top tips from a Registered Dietitian on how to increase your intake.

Watch this short video on the Public Health Dietitians YouTube channel or click the link  https://youtu.be/XuJ2kxdoD-4?si=txeO2COYVwLPfJmY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slow Cooking Tips

Using your slow cooker is a great way to cook healthy, low-cost meals this winter.  

This video has tips from our Dietitians on how to use your slow cooker: https://youtu.be/J5nQW9LSknQ

RCN NI Developing a Safeguarding First Culture hosted by the Sexual Health, and Children and Young People Networks

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Image with keyboard, lock and key. Includes text promoting RCN NI Sexual Health, and Children and Young People Networks with QR code

This webinar will examine a range of emerging online trends, themes and patterns of behaviour. It will consider how the context of a young person’s offline life and vulnerabilities can accelerate pathways to real harm in the virtual world. Critically, it will focus on the potential to use technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to educate, empower and protect entire communities. 

The webinar is open to members and non-members with an interest in children and safeguarding services

Scan QR code to register 

www.rcn.org.uk/northernireland

 

Issue 140 – Southern Area FYI – 23rd January 2025

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Welcome to Issue 140 of our fortnightly newsletter, ‘FYI’ (For Your Information).

Image with text promoting FYI (For Your Information)

Image with text promoting FYI (For Your Information)

Download Issue 140

(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears)

As you may already be aware, Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 takes place from 3rd to 9th February and Safer Internet Day is on Tuesday 11th February. With these important campaigns in mind, we are calling for submissions relevant to these areas for the next edition of ‘FYI’ – See Page 3 for further details.

Thanks to all who submitted flyers on upcoming training opportunities, events, parenting programmes, youth programmes, resources, funding opportunities and surveys for inclusion in this issue.

Please continue to share these important details with us, so that we can further spread the word to practitioners, parents & carers working across / living in the Southern Trust Area!

Locality Development Team, Southern Area