The Public Health Agency (PHA) and the Community Development and Health Network (CDHN) are pleased to announce that the Elevate Community Mentoring and Grants Programme 2025-26 is now open for applications.
CDHN and our partners in Community Work Ireland were delighted to facilitate a North South exchange visit to Derry/Londonderry as part of the Voice Equality Experience Power initiative, supported by Shared Island Civic Fund. The exchange brought together a diverse group of community workers, mental health practitioners, people with living experience of mental health issues and academics from right across Ireland.
Mentee groups from across Northern Ireland gathered in Portadown to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Elevate Community Mentoring and Grants Programme, a Public Health Agency (PHA)-funded initiative that continues to support grassroots responses to health inequalities.
Thirteen new voluntary and community sector appointments to the Joint Forum Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Panel for the 2024-27 term of the Joint Government and Voluntary Sector Forum have recently been confirmed.
Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has visited The Link in Newtownards to see first-hand the benefits of a project delivering local health programmes that address health inequalities.
The third webinar in the Voice, Equality, Experience, and Power (VEEP) series brought together experts and practitioners to explore the transformative potential of Open Dialogue and its role as a methodology in community development, mental health recovery, and fostering genuine connections between services, users, and families. We were delighted to welcome 70 participants from across the island and from a range of backgrounds including statutory services, community and voluntary sector organisations, services users, and carers and family members of service users.
Our second webinar in the Voice, Equality, Experience, Power (VEEP) series focussed on the power of nature, story and community for mental wellness. Our speakers told us about their various projects which encourage healing through creativity, growing and achieving tasks. We were delighted to have over 40 participants
Belfast, 12 November 2024 – Over 100 guests from across sectors gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Community Development and Health Network (CDHN). The event honoured three decades of community action to address health inequalities and poverty, and looked ahead to a future of social change and health equity.
The first in a series of webinars in the Voice, Equality, Experience, Power initiative, more than 30 participants came together to share knowledge and understanding of how we can best put our community development principles into practice when responding to and tackling mental health and poverty
The Northern Ireland Executive has published the draft Programme for Government 2024-2027 ‘Our Plan: Doing What Matters Most’ laying out in draft form the Executive's key commitments and priorities for the next 3 years of government in Northern Ireland.
You can find out more and register for the event here.
