Shropshire Health and Wellbeing Newsflash

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Read on for updates:

• Dementia Infographic
• Parent & Carer Clinic in Ludlow
• Healthwatch Shropshire update
• Freedom Shropshire Newsletter
• Children's Race 4 Life
• Energize Event
• Connecting Shropshire
• Forget-me-not Tea in Shifnal

Dates for Your Diary:

• Dementia Awareness Week, 18th-24th May 2015, various events across Shropshire
• Child Safety Week, 1st-7th June 2015
• Carer's Week, 8th-14th June 2015
• Men's Health Week, 15th-21st June 2015
• Health & Wellbeing Board, 19th June 2015
• Children's Race 4 Life, Saturday 27th June 2015 at Shrewsbury Sports Village 

Alzheimer's UK Infographic

Over Dementia Awareness Week, organisations across Shropshire have helped to raise awareness of the condition, providing advice, guidance and information through events and workshop all over the county.

Alzheimer's UK have produced a useful interactive infographic that provides information and the impact and scale of dementia in the UK. Click here to try the tool and find out about the true extent of the condition and the cost of supporting individuals and their families.

Healthwatch Shropshire update - You Said, We Did

Healthwatch Shropshire have produced their most recent copy of their 'You Said, We Did' update which covers the period between October 2014-March 2015. 

The report shows the work that Healthwatch has undertaken as a result of the comments they have received from the public.

Click here to read the full document.

To find out more about Healthwatch, click here. You can submit your views and experiences of health and social care services to Healthwatch here.

Freedom Shropshire Newsletter

Freedom Shropshire have published their April/May Newsletter.

Topics include:

• an update on the official launch of the new 'Safer Shropshire Multi-Agency Domestic Abuse Strategy 2015-2017'
• information about the National Stalking Helpline
• training, toolkits, conferences and much more!

The five key priorities of the new Domestic Abuse Strategy are:

1. Prevention - improve prevention
2. Preparation - increase education
3. Provision - improve health and wellbeing of survivors
4. Protection - working with perpetrators
5. Partnership - improve partnership working

The aims of the strategy are:

• To improve services and support for all victims of domestic violence and abuse.
• To develop and deliver a high quality, coordinated multi-agency response to domestic violence and abuse.
• To further increase and develop awareness generally about domestic violence and abuse and the measures in place to help the victims.
• To educate children and young people and the wider general public that domestic violence and abuse is wrong and is unacceptable and to enable them to make informed choices.
• To hold perpetrators/abusers accountable and provide effective interventions for their behaviour.

Click here to read the full newsletter.

Find out more about Freedom Shropshire here.

Energize Referral Partnership Event

As part of a wider project in partnership with Bill Longmore, West Mercia Police & Crime Commissioner, Energize are hosting a referral partner event to promote opportunities for challenged young people and adults. 

The event will be an opportunity to hear about some of the existing offers, but essentially, will provide an opportunity for those who work with young people to help shape a new referral project that will provide sports and volunteering programmes, mentoring support and positive activities. 

The aim of the partnership is to reduce crime and increase community resilience, using sport as vehicle for social change.

Energize intend to create a referral partnership with local providers and hope they can attend the event which will take place on:

Monday 8th June

2pm - 4:30pm

AFC Telford Learning Centre

Energize welcomes providers who work with rehabilitation services, housing associations, pupil referral, training and skills, victim support and welfare.

To book a place at the event go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/referral-partnership-event-sport-as-a-vehicle-for-social-change-tickets-16816978034 

To find out more about Energize, click here.

Connecting Shropshire Update

There are now 44 exchanges in Shropshire that have access to fibre broadband from Connecting Shropshire.

Find out where they are and how the project is progressing in Connecting Shropshire's latest update. Click here to read the newsletter.

Got some news to share?

If you have a topic or article that you would like to feature in this newsletter, please contact us by email: shropshiretogether@shropshire.gov.uk or telephone: 01743 253937.

Health and Wellbeing Board - Next Meeting:

The next public Health and Wellbeing Board meeting will be held on Friday 19th June 2015, 9.30am at Shirehall in Shrewsbury.

The agenda and relevant papers will become available on the Health and Wellbeing webpage prior to the meeting. Please see the attached link below to access previous meeting agendas:

Health and Wellbeing Board