Aims and objectives

Aim

The aim of the project is to maintain and develop a creative partnership to tackle the health, social and economic inequalities experienced in Blackburn: to involve and enable the people living and working in these areas to design and implement their own solutions.

Objectives

-  To increase provision of healthy eating initiatives and projects to improve people’s awareness of a healthy diet and nutrition.

-  To raise the awareness of, and to provide opportunities for, community members to get involved in physical activities.

-  To raise the awareness of smoking related diseases and to promote smoking cessation services.

-  To increase awareness of sexual health and contraception amongst young people.

-  To increase awareness of the effects of drug and alcohol use.

-  To promote community involvement and leadership in the planning of services /projects to encourage community ownership.

-  To provide opportunities for people to get involved in local community regeneration schemes.

-  To develop a range of initiatives that will improve the quality of life, well being and life chances of the target client group.

-  To organise and participate in health promotion and health education activities to raise awareness of health issues.

-  To promote partnership working with community, voluntary and statutory agencies to ensure a co-ordinated approach to service delivery and efficient and effective use of resources.

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