North East

Conference: Helping Vulnerable Children in our Schools and Communities

Thursday 14 November

Lancastrian Suite, Dunston, Gateshead

A range of speakers include representatives of Children North East, Great North Children’s Hospital, Tyne and Wear Citizens and North East Wellbeing looking at how we can improve outcomes for vulnerable children. The event is aimed at anyone working with children in the education, health and social sector.

The line up includes Dr Mike McKean and Professor Chris Drinkwater and they will be talking about how up-stream services in education and health have been working together on social prescribing models in Newcastle.

It is tied into the Zone West initiative and we are hoping to show how the arts sector can make interventions that are robust enough to hold the interest of children and enable practitioner from across disciplines to work together.

There will be many examples of colourful and evidence-based work happening in the schools and communities and some live puppets too. I would love it if health visitors, school nurses were sitting alongside hospital doctors and school teachers to think through what we need to do to enhance the offer we are making to children in this time of austerity.

NE meeting, 17 June 2019

The first meeting for the North East regional members of the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance took place on 17 June 2019. Click here to read the minutes and the CHWA North East group consensus.

Creativity and Wellbeing Week in the North East (June 2019)

Creativity & Wellbeing Week was started eight years ago by London Arts & Health Forum (LAHF). This year the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance partnered with LAHF to take the festival national.

As a founding member of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums promoted regional events and activities happening throughout Creativity & Wellbeing Week, 10-16 June 2019.

Click here to find out more about the activities that happened across the region.

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Each region is represented by champions the museums and arts working with health and wellbeing. The regional champions are working with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance in a voluntary capacity. Become a member and join the conversation.

Sophie Mitchell

Outreach Officer, Discovery Museum, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

Kate Parkin

Equal Arts

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