Click here to see some of the great coverage received by Blackpool Foyer for their Foyer Health launch event.
http://www.foyer.net/mpn/downloads/Drink_Up.pdf
http://www.foyer.net/mpn/downloads/Healthy_Habits_For_Life.pdf
http://www.foyer.net/mpn/downloads/Lottery_money_supporting_young_people_to_lead_healthy_lifestyle.pdf
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Monday, 21 April 2008
Working with the Health Improvement Team at your local Primary Care Trust
My name is Rahela Khan and I am project managing the Healthy Transitions programme for Salford Foyer.
I originally liaised with Salford PCT and Sure Start in 2003 when I used to teach cookery and crafts. Last year, I was recommended by one of the Health Improvement Team Staff who was an ex-student. A six week course was organised by Janet, the Health Improvement Worker for the PCT and delivered in the autumn. A further course funded by the Foyer was completed in March.
We have involved Janet with the Health Action Team and have worked closely to identify activities and information that would be more beneficial to the Young People. Janet will be involved with the Launch event and Tasters doing activities and displays around nutrition, healthy eating and relaxation. We will bring Janet into the Foyer to do Smoothie demonstrations with the other regular groups and sessions we hold.
We have found Janet a great source of information and contacts due to her connections with the PCT.
I also work for Barnardo’s in a Children’s Centre and find we can liaise really well with the PCT in so many different ways such as infant feeding peer support, young mums groups, sexual health, drugs and alcohol awareness and smoking cessation to name a few. One contact is one foot in the door to many opportunities.
And now a bit about our Foyer Health programme ..
Our Healthy Eating programme will be launched on Thursday 1st May at Salford Foyer 12noon-3pm where we will have local agencies attending and 3 different activities, baby massage, reflexology and creative arts. The Young People Leaders, i.e. The Health Action Team, will prepare a free buffet for everyone to savour. Our tasters will each include a number of activities, with free buffet and beverages. Healthy Eating will offer 3 demos around Quick Food and Food Fun activities. Physical activities for the Young People to partake in will be boxing, Caribbean and street dance and Chi Gung. A late buffet will be served at 3pm.
The well-being taster will bring Thai cuisine demonstrations, relaxation and reflexology. Food and Spice goody bags with recipes will be given to the Young People as prize draws. The 40 cookery sessions will consist of short courses around ‘Make it and eat it’, ‘International cookery’, ‘Food Challenge’ and Food Collages.
Future plans include setting up a breakfast club called ‘Mid-morning Mission’ with quizzes, activities and food demonstrations.
I originally liaised with Salford PCT and Sure Start in 2003 when I used to teach cookery and crafts. Last year, I was recommended by one of the Health Improvement Team Staff who was an ex-student. A six week course was organised by Janet, the Health Improvement Worker for the PCT and delivered in the autumn. A further course funded by the Foyer was completed in March.
We have involved Janet with the Health Action Team and have worked closely to identify activities and information that would be more beneficial to the Young People. Janet will be involved with the Launch event and Tasters doing activities and displays around nutrition, healthy eating and relaxation. We will bring Janet into the Foyer to do Smoothie demonstrations with the other regular groups and sessions we hold.
We have found Janet a great source of information and contacts due to her connections with the PCT.
I also work for Barnardo’s in a Children’s Centre and find we can liaise really well with the PCT in so many different ways such as infant feeding peer support, young mums groups, sexual health, drugs and alcohol awareness and smoking cessation to name a few. One contact is one foot in the door to many opportunities.
And now a bit about our Foyer Health programme ..
Our Healthy Eating programme will be launched on Thursday 1st May at Salford Foyer 12noon-3pm where we will have local agencies attending and 3 different activities, baby massage, reflexology and creative arts. The Young People Leaders, i.e. The Health Action Team, will prepare a free buffet for everyone to savour. Our tasters will each include a number of activities, with free buffet and beverages. Healthy Eating will offer 3 demos around Quick Food and Food Fun activities. Physical activities for the Young People to partake in will be boxing, Caribbean and street dance and Chi Gung. A late buffet will be served at 3pm.
The well-being taster will bring Thai cuisine demonstrations, relaxation and reflexology. Food and Spice goody bags with recipes will be given to the Young People as prize draws. The 40 cookery sessions will consist of short courses around ‘Make it and eat it’, ‘International cookery’, ‘Food Challenge’ and Food Collages.
Future plans include setting up a breakfast club called ‘Mid-morning Mission’ with quizzes, activities and food demonstrations.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Worcester YMCA Foyer launch their Foyer Health Programme
Worcester YMCA Foyer launched their Foyer Health Programme on the 7th April with an evening all about preparing and cooking fish. The Foyer's chef and Foyer Health ambassadors joined forces with the residents to help them cook.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Torbay Foyer Health Champion - My encounter with the big boys.
Sarah Bugler
Torbay Foyer Health Champion
My encounter with the big boys
Dear Mr Sainsbury’s, Mr Tesco and Mr Morrison’s
My name is Sarah Bugler, we have a Foyer that provides supported accommodation for twenty single young homeless people, we are embarking on a new initiative supported by the lottery and the Foyer Federation… a most exciting event to try and encourage young people to learn how to cook well balanced, healthy meals on a budget, these young people are future customers.
Is there anything you can do to help support this very worthwhile cause, I would be happy to come and visit to give you more details..
We all know how the rest of the story goes.
Response
You are just one of around 100 requests we have each week to help a charity
Put it in writing and send it to head office
No one can make that decision here and now the managers out (do you have a deputy? yes but he is out too!)
All discounts have to be agreed through head office in advance at least three months
Sorry No
We will call you back (never did)
We have our own campaign
So when all else fails, someone one told me to try and cut out the middle men, so my task was to do just that, I will go straight to source, as we were unable to afford to send me off to sunny Spain etc to get the fruit, I found a local supplier and fruit factory within two miles of the Foyer
I was invited to the factory and shown how the produce was sorted, packed etc. The supplier was extremely helpful and happy to support a local good cause. So thank you to Frank Mann for supplying more fruit than I think a supermarket could stock and at cost price.
We used the fruit on our launch and taster day. Each resident received a fruit goodie bag, smoothes and taste tested the exotic fruits.
Due to the abundance we were able to provide a supported housing project with a goodie bag and two more boxes of a variety of fruit were delivered to two homeless charities.
Torbay Foyer Health Champion
My encounter with the big boys
Dear Mr Sainsbury’s, Mr Tesco and Mr Morrison’s
My name is Sarah Bugler, we have a Foyer that provides supported accommodation for twenty single young homeless people, we are embarking on a new initiative supported by the lottery and the Foyer Federation… a most exciting event to try and encourage young people to learn how to cook well balanced, healthy meals on a budget, these young people are future customers.
Is there anything you can do to help support this very worthwhile cause, I would be happy to come and visit to give you more details..
We all know how the rest of the story goes.
Response
You are just one of around 100 requests we have each week to help a charity
Put it in writing and send it to head office
No one can make that decision here and now the managers out (do you have a deputy? yes but he is out too!)
All discounts have to be agreed through head office in advance at least three months
Sorry No
We will call you back (never did)
We have our own campaign
So when all else fails, someone one told me to try and cut out the middle men, so my task was to do just that, I will go straight to source, as we were unable to afford to send me off to sunny Spain etc to get the fruit, I found a local supplier and fruit factory within two miles of the Foyer
I was invited to the factory and shown how the produce was sorted, packed etc. The supplier was extremely helpful and happy to support a local good cause. So thank you to Frank Mann for supplying more fruit than I think a supermarket could stock and at cost price.
We used the fruit on our launch and taster day. Each resident received a fruit goodie bag, smoothes and taste tested the exotic fruits.
Due to the abundance we were able to provide a supported housing project with a goodie bag and two more boxes of a variety of fruit were delivered to two homeless charities.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Guidance for Physical Activity Programmes
This 'Guidance for Physical Activity Programmes' guide provides some advice and guidance, as well as some facts and figures for developing an effective physical activity programme. It also contains suggestions of who to contact to develop local partnerships on physical activity.
For those applying to join Year 2 of Foyer Health six key areas need to be included in planning your programme. They are listed in brief below and more details are provided in the guidance document below:
1. Young peoples' participation should be integral to the planning and implementation of the programme.
2. The programme should be informed by the recommendations on physical activity levels required to maintain health and well-beinhttp://guidance_on_designing_your_specialist_physical_activity_programme.pdf/g and good practice in promoting physical activity.
3. The programme should deliver a range of activity opportunities at a range of levels.
4. The programme should support young people to develop the skills and confidence to integrate physical activity into their daily lives whilst at the Foyer, but also in the medium and long term after moving on to independent living.
5. The physical activity programme should have the potential to become sustainable after 2009.
6. The physical activity programme should identify and plan to develop new partnerships and to integrate into existing local physical activity initiatives: e.g. healthy walks schemes and sport development programmes.
For those applying to join Year 2 of Foyer Health six key areas need to be included in planning your programme. They are listed in brief below and more details are provided in the guidance document below:
1. Young peoples' participation should be integral to the planning and implementation of the programme.
2. The programme should be informed by the recommendations on physical activity levels required to maintain health and well-beinhttp://guidance_on_designing_your_specialist_physical_activity_programme.pdf/g and good practice in promoting physical activity.
3. The programme should deliver a range of activity opportunities at a range of levels.
4. The programme should support young people to develop the skills and confidence to integrate physical activity into their daily lives whilst at the Foyer, but also in the medium and long term after moving on to independent living.
5. The physical activity programme should have the potential to become sustainable after 2009.
6. The physical activity programme should identify and plan to develop new partnerships and to integrate into existing local physical activity initiatives: e.g. healthy walks schemes and sport development programmes.
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Foyer Health - Application for Year Two Funding Now Open!
We’ve had a really exciting time getting the first year of Foyer Health: The Healthy Transitions programme, off the ground. Foyers around England have come up with lots of creative approaches to healthy eating and young people are getting involved in designing the activities in their Foyer.
Now the time has come to invite Foyers to apply to join in with Year 2 of the programme. Year 2 of the programme runs from Sept 08 to August 09 and has a focus on promoting physical activity.
So, what does the programme include?
Now the time has come to invite Foyers to apply to join in with Year 2 of the programme. Year 2 of the programme runs from Sept 08 to August 09 and has a focus on promoting physical activity.
So, what does the programme include?
- A free 4 day coaching skills course for Foyer staff with a focus on enabling young people to set and achieve health and well-being goals of their own.
Funding for Foyers to deliver holistic health taster sessions on healthy eating, mental well-being and physical activity. - Funding for Foyers to develop and invest in sustainable physical activity opportunities for young people. For example, developing sports and activity clubs and developing healthy support networks through access to local gym and leisure facilities.Support and training from the Foyer Health Network and access to our specialist consultant Physical Activity Ambassadors.
- Achieving specialist physical activity accreditation standards for Foyers.
- Access to a capital funds.
- Evaluation
How to express your interest
Please send an email to the National Programme Manager, Nerys Edmonds nerys@foyer.net outlining:
- What your aims and objectives for participating in this year of the programme are.
- What your initial ideas and plans for developing sustainable approaches to increasing physical activity opportunities for young people are.
- How you will develop new activity or build on and enhance existing activity.
- What resources you have in place to support the programme.
The deadline for the expression of interest is 15th April 2008
If you are selected then you will be asked to complete a more detailed Stage 2 application, the deadline for which is the 15th June.
Foyers who submitted an application in December for Year 2 will be contacted directly to send in an updated plan.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Association for Young People's Health
The Association for Young People’s Health is a major new charity and membership organisation creating a focus for all professionals and organisations working in the field of young people’s health.
The Association is supported with funding from the Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. It was launched at a conference held on the 6th February 2008 at the Institute of Child Health, London.
Join up Now !!
http://www.youngpeopleshealth.org.uk/
The Association is supported with funding from the Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families. It was launched at a conference held on the 6th February 2008 at the Institute of Child Health, London.
Join up Now !!
http://www.youngpeopleshealth.org.uk/
Notes and Ideas from the Foyer Health Network Meetings March '08
Hi There
Over this last week I've had the pleasure of travelling around the country with Lisa Fallowfield Head of Health Projects at Aberdeen Foyer and meeting up with all of you and hearing your ideas and progress with your Foyer Health programmes.
We've had some great ideas and I wanted to get them out there for everyone to see as soon as possible
Here's just a few.....
Fun things to try with fruit
The Human Fruit Machine ! - this was a great idea from Painswick Inn Foyer who created a human fruit machine at their launch event on 22nd Feb. The machine needs four people, 1 to act as the lever, and three as the "fruit machine ". Pull the handle and each of the three pick a fruit at random from a bowl. A lucky player will find three lemons or pears selected and will duly get fruit as a prize ! ...need to know more ..contact Painswick Inn Foyer
Torbay Foyer breaks the fruit barrier ....... Torbay Health Champion Sarah initially approached local supermarkets about accessing some fruit and veg for the Foyer, but did not meet a very helpful response. So she went off to find out who supplied the supermarkets locally with fruit and veg and found a very helpful local supplier who will be supporting their launch.
Also try ..fruit as prize ...Aberdeen have used a pineapple as a Trophy ! Feel the fruit ..Why not have a Fruity Friday and provide a small goody bag of fruit to all residents. Others have managed to transform their tuck shop.......
Another way to encourage young people to try cooking something new and healthy is to put together a healthy recipe Kit/goody bag , that contains a recipe and then all the ingredients individually portioned. You could get a member of staff to demonstrate the recipe and then give the Kit/good bags for young people to go home to their flats and try it for themselves.....
"Eat anything you like day" - another great idea from Painswick Inn. Painswick In n have asked young people to think of one single food that they would like to try and have teamed up with their local Waitrose to make it happen.It is rumoured that Lobster may well get on the menu for a few young people curious to try it out .........
We learnt a lot from Lisa this week about integrating healthy eating into all kinds of projects that are not necessarily "health projects". try integrating a healthy breakfast or lunch into learning programmes at your Foyer. Also get healthy menu preparation on the agenda for any outward bound/Princes Trust programmes you run.
FARESHARES
We also heard about the success of FARESHARES food distribution scheme in some areas. FareShare is the national charity working to relieve food poverty by providing quality food and other support services to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community.
Find out more about Fareshare at their website below and also check for a local project near you. Meanwhile we will check out some of your concerns.
http://www.fareshare.org.uk/local/index.html
http://www.fareshare.org.uk/index.html
Food Policies
We had some discussion this week about the value of establishing a food policy for Foyers to guide practice. Developing a food policy is one of the standards in the healthy eating accreditation standards for Foyers that Year One foyers will be working towards.
http://foodinschools.datacenta.uk.net/
Healthy catering guidelines
http://www.nwph.net/food_health/Taskforce_Publications/Forms/Detail%20View.aspx
The North West Food and Health Task Force
A useful website with lots of guidance documents
http://www.nwph.net/food_health/default.aspx
Over this last week I've had the pleasure of travelling around the country with Lisa Fallowfield Head of Health Projects at Aberdeen Foyer and meeting up with all of you and hearing your ideas and progress with your Foyer Health programmes.
We've had some great ideas and I wanted to get them out there for everyone to see as soon as possible
Here's just a few.....
Fun things to try with fruit
The Human Fruit Machine ! - this was a great idea from Painswick Inn Foyer who created a human fruit machine at their launch event on 22nd Feb. The machine needs four people, 1 to act as the lever, and three as the "fruit machine ". Pull the handle and each of the three pick a fruit at random from a bowl. A lucky player will find three lemons or pears selected and will duly get fruit as a prize ! ...need to know more ..contact Painswick Inn Foyer
Torbay Foyer breaks the fruit barrier ....... Torbay Health Champion Sarah initially approached local supermarkets about accessing some fruit and veg for the Foyer, but did not meet a very helpful response. So she went off to find out who supplied the supermarkets locally with fruit and veg and found a very helpful local supplier who will be supporting their launch.
Also try ..fruit as prize ...Aberdeen have used a pineapple as a Trophy ! Feel the fruit ..Why not have a Fruity Friday and provide a small goody bag of fruit to all residents. Others have managed to transform their tuck shop.......
Another way to encourage young people to try cooking something new and healthy is to put together a healthy recipe Kit/goody bag , that contains a recipe and then all the ingredients individually portioned. You could get a member of staff to demonstrate the recipe and then give the Kit/good bags for young people to go home to their flats and try it for themselves.....
"Eat anything you like day" - another great idea from Painswick Inn. Painswick In n have asked young people to think of one single food that they would like to try and have teamed up with their local Waitrose to make it happen.It is rumoured that Lobster may well get on the menu for a few young people curious to try it out .........
We learnt a lot from Lisa this week about integrating healthy eating into all kinds of projects that are not necessarily "health projects". try integrating a healthy breakfast or lunch into learning programmes at your Foyer. Also get healthy menu preparation on the agenda for any outward bound/Princes Trust programmes you run.
FARESHARES
We also heard about the success of FARESHARES food distribution scheme in some areas. FareShare is the national charity working to relieve food poverty by providing quality food and other support services to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community.
Find out more about Fareshare at their website below and also check for a local project near you. Meanwhile we will check out some of your concerns.
http://www.fareshare.org.uk/local/index.html
http://www.fareshare.org.uk/index.html
Food Policies
We had some discussion this week about the value of establishing a food policy for Foyers to guide practice. Developing a food policy is one of the standards in the healthy eating accreditation standards for Foyers that Year One foyers will be working towards.
I will be tracking down a an example workplace policy ..but in the meantime here are two links to schools food policy guidance and templates
http://www.sustainweb.org/pdf/G5_MFPol.pdfhttp://foodinschools.datacenta.uk.net/
Healthy catering guidelines
http://www.nwph.net/food_health/Taskforce_Publications/Forms/Detail%20View.aspx
The North West Food and Health Task Force
A useful website with lots of guidance documents
http://www.nwph.net/food_health/default.aspx
more soon .........bye for now
Nerys
Monday, 3 March 2008
Foyer Health Blog - Happy Blogging!
Welcome to the Foyer Health BlogThis blog is designed to get you started on your Foyer Health Programme, and offers guidance, resources, advice and a space to exchange ideas and find out new information. It offers guidance on key project management areas like monitoring, branding and publicity as well as lots of resources and information on our key themes of healthy eating, physical activity and mental well-being.
This blog is a starting point, and the aim is to add in new ideas and information throughout the year. So, any good ideas you have, resources you find or create, can be shared with other Foyers.We want to provide effective ways of sharing information across the network, and getting up to date information to you without clogging up your inbox! To this end we have set up the blog that will be a conduit of updates, information, downloads and discussion.
Lucy Billings is our new Projects Assistant and will be the first point of contact for all general enquiries you can contact her on lucy@foyer.net Tel: 0207 430 2212. There is also an email address for the programme.
Please use this for any queries and bookings for life coaching training, venues, Foyer Health Network Meetings and all general enquiries health@foyer.net
Enjoy!
This blog is a starting point, and the aim is to add in new ideas and information throughout the year. So, any good ideas you have, resources you find or create, can be shared with other Foyers.We want to provide effective ways of sharing information across the network, and getting up to date information to you without clogging up your inbox! To this end we have set up the blog that will be a conduit of updates, information, downloads and discussion.
Lucy Billings is our new Projects Assistant and will be the first point of contact for all general enquiries you can contact her on lucy@foyer.net Tel: 0207 430 2212. There is also an email address for the programme.
Please use this for any queries and bookings for life coaching training, venues, Foyer Health Network Meetings and all general enquiries health@foyer.net
Enjoy!
Foyer Health Champions
Foyer Health is an exciting three year programme to increase the skills, resources and opportunities that disadvantaged young people have to make a healthy transition to adulthood.
There are three themes to the programme: healthy eating, physical activity and mental well-being. Foyer Health is funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Well-being programme and managed by the Foyer Federation.
Foyer Health has four key areas:
1. Young people will be supported to choose and achieve a health and well-being goal through one to one support from a member of staff that has been on a life coaching skills training programme.
2. Young people will have opportunities to experience a range of healthy living activities through taster sessions on healthy eating, physical activity and mental well-being.
3. Every Foyer will develop a specialist project on one of the following: healthy eating (Year One), physical activity (Year Two) or mental well-being (Year Three).
4. Foyer Health will also enable 120 Foyers in England to achieve specialist health accreditation standards that will ensure that every Foyer is a healthy place to live, work and learn.
The Health Champion
The Health Champion role is to lead and co-ordinate the Foyer Health programme in each Foyer.
Areas of responsibility include:
There are three themes to the programme: healthy eating, physical activity and mental well-being. Foyer Health is funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Well-being programme and managed by the Foyer Federation.
Foyer Health has four key areas:
1. Young people will be supported to choose and achieve a health and well-being goal through one to one support from a member of staff that has been on a life coaching skills training programme.
2. Young people will have opportunities to experience a range of healthy living activities through taster sessions on healthy eating, physical activity and mental well-being.
3. Every Foyer will develop a specialist project on one of the following: healthy eating (Year One), physical activity (Year Two) or mental well-being (Year Three).
4. Foyer Health will also enable 120 Foyers in England to achieve specialist health accreditation standards that will ensure that every Foyer is a healthy place to live, work and learn.
The Health Champion
The Health Champion role is to lead and co-ordinate the Foyer Health programme in each Foyer.
Areas of responsibility include:
- Establishing and co-ordinating a Health Action Team that includes at least 2 young people, and may involve other staff, managers, board members and relevant outside agencies.
Engaging and supporting young people to participate in planning, designing, delivering and evaluating the programme. - The Health Action team will develop the planned activities for your Foyer Health programme in consultation with young people. Once ideas are developed for taster sessions and your healthy eating programme, the Health Champion along with the Health Action team puts these plans into action and evaluates the outcomes.
- The Health Champion will lead and co-ordinate each Foyer in working towards the Foyer Health Accreditation Standards (core health standards plus specialist healthy eating standards). This will require auditing your current provision, engaging young people in assessing the current service, taking any action needed to for the Foyer to meet the standards, and collecting evidence to demonstrate how the standard has been met. The healthy eating standards must be met by the end of year One (Nov 08) and the core health standards by the end of 2009.
- The Health Champion takes the lead in promoting the Foyer Health programme to young people and staff in the Foyer service and in partner agencies.
They Health Champion creates new partnerships with external agencies to increase young people’s access to local health resources and/or develops existing partnership working.
The Health Champion co-ordinates input from other Foyer staff, partner agencies, Foyer Federation Healthy Eating Ambassadors, and other sessional workers and may lead some of the planned activities - Depending on how your Foyer chooses to manage the programme, the Health Champion may be responsible for collating the quarterly monitoring forms to be returned to the Foyer Federation to ensure continues funding.
- The Health Champion leads and co-ordinates the input of the Foyer into the evaluation of Foyer Health. This may involve collecting case studies, maintaining evidence of activities, getting feedback from young people.
Opportunities for Health Champions
Health Champions will have access to range of opportunities to support their role and for professional development through attending quarterly Foyer Health Network meetings/workshops, access to peer support and practice sharing with other Foyers, external specialist speakers and specialist input from Health Eating Ambassadors.
Friday, 8 February 2008
British Nutrition Foundation Food Life Skills Programme
The British Nutrition Foundation Food Life Skills courses enables you to develop your own structured food skills/cooking course with young people (aged 14-19 years). The teachers' guide can be found along with an introduction here.
http://www.nutrition.org.uk/
Modules to download
Moule One, Module Two, Module Three, Module Four, Module Five, Module Six, Module Seven, Module Eight, Module Nine, Module Ten, Module Eleven, Module Twelve, Module Thirteen
Presentations can be downloaded below to be used in your sessions.
Budgeting
Healthier Cooking Practices
Food Safety
Healthier Eating
Personal Hygiene
Food Labelling
Download the Life Skills Programme Certificate here.
Recipes
Try some of these tasty recipes neatly laid out in handy powerpoint presentations.
Basic Tomato Sauce
Bubble and Squeak
Chicken or Tofu Stir-fry
Cauliflower Cheese
Fish Pie
Fruit Jelly
Fruit Pancakes
Fruit Salad
Fruity Flapjacks
Haloumi and Vegetable Kebabs
Healthy Fry Up
Herby Mash
Homemade Burgers
Hummus, pepper and grated carrot pockets
Lentil and Pepper Bake
Layered Salad
Mixed Vegetables
Noodles
Porridge
Parmesan and Chicken Nuggets
Quiche
Lamb Rogan Josh
Ratatouille
Roasted Vegetables
Salmon Fish Fingers
Spicy Wedges
Smoothie
Tandoori Chicken
Tortilla Toastie
Vegetable Cous Cous
Tomato Soup
Roasted Butter Nut Squash Risotto
http://www.nutrition.org.uk/
Modules to download
Moule One, Module Two, Module Three, Module Four, Module Five, Module Six, Module Seven, Module Eight, Module Nine, Module Ten, Module Eleven, Module Twelve, Module Thirteen
Presentations can be downloaded below to be used in your sessions.
Budgeting
Healthier Cooking Practices
Food Safety
Healthier Eating
Personal Hygiene
Food Labelling
Download the Life Skills Programme Certificate here.
Recipes
Try some of these tasty recipes neatly laid out in handy powerpoint presentations.
Basic Tomato Sauce
Bubble and Squeak
Chicken or Tofu Stir-fry
Cauliflower Cheese
Fish Pie
Fruit Jelly
Fruit Pancakes
Fruit Salad
Fruity Flapjacks
Haloumi and Vegetable Kebabs
Healthy Fry Up
Herby Mash
Homemade Burgers
Hummus, pepper and grated carrot pockets
Lentil and Pepper Bake
Layered Salad
Mixed Vegetables
Noodles
Porridge
Parmesan and Chicken Nuggets
Quiche
Lamb Rogan Josh
Ratatouille
Roasted Vegetables
Salmon Fish Fingers
Spicy Wedges
Smoothie
Tandoori Chicken
Tortilla Toastie
Vegetable Cous Cous
Tomato Soup
Roasted Butter Nut Squash Risotto
Mental Health and Well-being Resources
What is Mental Health?
Alcohol
How much alcohol is too much?
Alcohol Awareness Poster
Promoting Mental Well-being
Ideas from young people on promoting mental well-being.
Key indicators of promoting mental well-being
Check out these guides from Mind, the leading mental health charity in England and Wales.
http://www.mind.org.uk/
How to cope with relationship problems?
How to improve your mental well-being?
How to stop worrying?
Coping with sleep problems
How to look after yourself?
The Mind Guide to managing stress
How to deal with anger
How to cope with student life
How to increase your self esteem
Learning to cope with exam stress
How to assert yourself
Posters and Practical Resources
Looking after yourself poster - http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
Mental Health - Blood, Sweat, No Tears poster - http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
Resources for teachers - NHS Surrey
Ideas from Foyer residents around mental well-being
Mental Health Issues
How to cope with panic attacks
Understanding Depression
Street Drugs 2007
Eating Distress
Understanding Psychotic Experiences
Department of Health - Promoting Well-being For People At Risk Of Mental Health Problems
Online Resources on Mental Well-being
Young Minds www.youngminds.org.uk
The leading national charity on mental health and children and young people. Have online information for young people, professionals and parents. Excellent leaflets on coping with being a teenager, coping at schools, self harm, depression and more.
Royal College of Psychaitrists
The website includes online factsheets for teachers and students on subjects including bereavement, eating problems, depression, divorce, and stress. A new CD ROM teaching resource is also available Self Harm and Young People
Self Harm
Website of the national inquiry into self harm and young people. Useful information sheets for teachers and families and good links section. Up to date research on the issue.
Mental Health Foundation www.mentalhealth.org.uk
The Mental Health Foundation works to improve the lives of everyone with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
Samaritans www.samaritans.org.uk
Provides an email advice service and telephone helpline 08457 90 90 90 and lots of useful information and advice about mental health.
BBC www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health
Site giving information on mental health
Depression Alliance www.depressionalliance.org
Charity for those affected by depression
Eating Disorders Association www.edauk.com
Information and help on all aspects of eating disorders.
Changing Minds www.changingminds.co.ukAnti-stigma campaign by Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Be...foundation www.be-foundation.org
Aims to offer a comprehensive source of help and information on youth suicide and deliberate self-harm.
Rethink aims to help everyone affected by severe mental illness to recover a better quality of life.
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health www.scmh.org.uk
Healthy Schools www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk
Antidote: Campaign for Emotional Literacy www.antidote.org.uk
Antidote aims to create an emotionally literate culture, where the ability to handle emotional life is as widespread as the capacity to read, write and do arithmetic.
Lucky Duck Publishing
www.luckyduck.co.uk
The creators of the no blame approach to bullying.
National Emotional Literacy Interest Group www.nelig.com
The site aims to promote and resource emotional literacy defined as, "the ability to recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express emotions" for both young people and adults. It includes articles and signposting to useful teaching resources on emotional literacy that may be of use to teachers.
Very useful guidelines and resources on promoting emotional literacy in schools including books for children and emotions vocabulary available to download from:
http://www.nelig.com/pdf/selig_guidelines.pdf
Youth In Mind http://www.youthinmind.com/
Check out http://www.ru-ok.com/ - a site set up to support learning mentors and teachers
Bullying
Bullying Online www.bullying.co.uk
This website provides help and advice on bullying issues for pupils, parents, governors and teachers. It also includes legal advice, school projects and suggestions for work in class and youth clubs.
Kidscape www.kidscape.org.uk
Kidscape is a registered charity that aims to keep children safe from harm or abuse. The site includes advice for young people and parents who are being bullied as well as publications and leaflets produced by the organisation.
Anti-Bullying Alliance www.ncb.org.uk/aba
Other Useful Publications
Nurturing Emotional Literacy – Peter Sharp
A practical guide for teachers, parents and those in a caring profession. This book helps to recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express their emotions. How we manage our emotions and positive impact that emotional literacy can have on improving standards in schools has been overshadowed recently by the attention given to the 3 R’s. This handbook seeks to redress this and looks at the importance of the fourth R – relationship. Specific ideas for working with children, teachers, parents and carers, makes this book ideal for all concerned with developing the whole child.
Brand and Communication Guidelines
Here are the Brand and Communication Guidelines for Foyer Health.
To obtain the original artwork for logos for design purposes please email laura@foyer.net
To obtain the original artwork for logos for design purposes please email laura@foyer.net
Physical Activity Resources
Why is exercise so important? Here are the answers.
Why not have your own physical activity diary? Or a Weekly Activity Planner
Try out our Physical Activity Quiz
Some other resources you migth want to use:
Mind Guide to Physical Activity - http://www.mind.org.uk/
Get Active Resource Book
Web Guide to Physical Activity
Briefing Paper on Physical Activity from the British Nutrition Foundation
Physical Activity QuestionnaireMonitoring your Foyer Health Programme
Monitoring your Foyer Health programme is an essential requirement of your Foyer Health Partnership Agreement.
Ongoing payments from the Big Lottery Fund to the Foyer Federation, and therefore, payment from the Foyer Federation to your Foyer, are dependent on successful delivery of your targets, which are evidenced by the monitoring information you provide.
We are required to provide quarterly monitoring reports to the Big Lottery Fund, and so will require you to provide quarterly reports to us.
Some of the evaluation tools are still under development in consultation with Foyers, but here are a selection of resources to help you with your monitoring opportunities:
This Monitoring Overview will help make the importance of monitoring clear, as well as some of the benefits of monitoring.
Foyer Health Monitoring Form
Foyer Health Beneficiaries Details Form
Monitoring Form for Wider Beneficiaries
Ongoing payments from the Big Lottery Fund to the Foyer Federation, and therefore, payment from the Foyer Federation to your Foyer, are dependent on successful delivery of your targets, which are evidenced by the monitoring information you provide.
We are required to provide quarterly monitoring reports to the Big Lottery Fund, and so will require you to provide quarterly reports to us.
Some of the evaluation tools are still under development in consultation with Foyers, but here are a selection of resources to help you with your monitoring opportunities:
This Monitoring Overview will help make the importance of monitoring clear, as well as some of the benefits of monitoring.
Foyer Health Monitoring Form
Foyer Health Beneficiaries Details Form
Monitoring Form for Wider Beneficiaries
Foyer Health Accreditation Standards
An important part of the Foyer Health programme is to pilot and achieve health accreditation standards. This is an essential part of ensuring that Foyers become healthy places to live, learn and work beyond the three years of the Big Lottery funding. It is also an exciting opportunity to lead the way in creating a new framework for a healthy setting in Foyers, alongside the National Healthy Schools Scheme, Healthy Colleges, healthy hospitals and prisons and healthy workplace initiatives.
Here is some more information about Foyer Health Accreditation Standards
Core Health Standards
Specialist Accreditation Module for Healthy Eating
Foyer Health Accreditation Standards
Foyer Health spacialist Accreditation Module Worksheet
For further information contact nerys@foyer.net
Here is some more information about Foyer Health Accreditation Standards
Core Health Standards
Specialist Accreditation Module for Healthy Eating
Foyer Health Accreditation Standards
Foyer Health spacialist Accreditation Module Worksheet
For further information contact nerys@foyer.net
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
Foyer Health Launch Events
Fancy making a fuss about Foyer Health? Well, what are you waiting for....
Put on your glad rags, put up the bunting and get the party started.
To make your launch event go with a bang try using these resources for your taster sessions:
Proforma for planning and evaluating your taster sessions and launch events.
Taster Session signing in sheet
Taster Session Evaluation Form for young people
Put on your glad rags, put up the bunting and get the party started.
To make your launch event go with a bang try using these resources for your taster sessions:
Proforma for planning and evaluating your taster sessions and launch events.
Taster Session signing in sheet
Taster Session Evaluation Form for young people
Foyer Health Resources
We have put together a whole host of resources to accompany Foyer Health, and to help support you. We have also found some resources provided by other organisations which we think will be useful.
Setting Healthy Eating Goals and keeping a Food Diary.
Set some healthy eating goals. And try using this Five a Day Chart
Setting Healthy Eating Goals and keeping a Food Diary.
Set some healthy eating goals. And try using this Five a Day Chart
Why not try keeping a Food Diary? Fill out Your Food Diary here.
Why not try setting yourself some healthy eating goals? Or check out some of these healthy eating ideas from young people.
Try some ideas for healthy catering and use a healthy catering checklist.
Resources from organisations committed to supporting health and well-being.
Department of Health 'Five A Day' Leaflet
www.dh.gov.uk
Five A Day Order Form for accompanying resources from the NHS
The Mind Guide to Food and Health, from leading mental health charity, Mind.
http://www.mind.org.uk/
The British Heart Foundation's 'Food Should Be Fun and Healthy' booklet.
www.bhf.org.uk
Community Cook and Eat Training
Norwich Union's 'Cook and Eat Toolkit'
British Nutrition Foundation's 'Healthy Eating Leaflet'
Department of Health Healthy Eating Plan
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