East Belfast Community Development Agency

EBCDA Health Development and Connections Programme Healthy Living Group along with Dundonald Family and Community Initiative and Ballybeen Womens Centre came together to promote a women’s health fair on Friday morning 19^th November 2010 at the Enler Centre, Ballybeen. There were fifteen agencies from all over Belfast exhibiting their wellbeing, stress busting, medical advice and health promotion information at the Enler Centre to a large audience of over seventy women of all ages. 

Lay workers were inspired by a year of enquiring into mental health in the estate to help organise a morning of health activity at the new Enler Centre.  Last year, the Healthy Living Group meeting at Dundonald Health Centre embarked upon a mental health project inspired by the willingness of agencies to come to the aid of vulnerable individuals during a suicide crisis. The Group worked with professional mental health specialists from Woodstock Lodge mental health centre and Knockbracken Health Care Centre.

Ian Kerr of the Healthy Living Group said: “The theme of the project was a real challenge and we are all very proud of the end result. “We hope to help build a strong community and provide support for social networks in the future.”

Sally from Dundonald Family and Community Initiative and Gillian from Ballybeen Womens Centre partners in the health fair said: “We are committed to helping people in a crisis and sharing information with women and look forward to supporting women after the event.”

For further information contact;

Alan Houston EBCDA

Tel.  90451512