community health
Community Health Programmes
Libraries for Health, Libraries for Life
Active Aims has delivered an extensive health consultancy programme for Diana Edmonds, assistant director of Adult Learning, Libraries, Art and Culture Haringey.
Haringey London
The project entitled, 'Libraries for Health, Libraries for Life' has been an extremely successful imitative. Active Aims, provided health consultancy to develop the provision of health and wellbeing information available from the libraries. We felt that access to hands on health service would be beneficial to the community; we approached appropriate organisations to work in partnership with the libraries.
Our Partners
Our partners now use the libraries as a location for delivery of their service. Libraries are an excellent location for accessing health and wellbeing information, since they are non intrusive, welcoming and low key. The nine libraries in Haringey offer:
- IAPT counselling for stress, anxiety and low level mental health issues.
- Smoking cessation classes
- Health checks
- Health coaching
- Sexual health counselling, Chlamydia and HIV testing
- Stroke awareness and support for young stroke survivors
- Free exercise classes
- Free level one award in lifestyle management course
- Drug and alcohol counselling
- Cancer support
- Diabetes support
- Back to work programmes, coaching and mentoring.
During 2009/10, a total of 23,465 people used the services provided by the libraries of Haringey.We truly believe that offering health education and raising health awareness has had a positive effect on the community members using this programme. Knowledge is power and gives people an informed choice about the lifestyle decisions they make.
Contact us Today
To enquire about our community health programmes, call us now on 01509 229042 and we'll delighted to discuss how we can help with your local initiatives..
Send us an email, if it's more convenient, and we'll get straight back to you with details of how you can use your local libraries for health education.