WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
Morning includes 1 hr Capacitar Practices (exercises & techniques for health & well being) followed by a healthy lunch.
- Support Group for women
- Friday Mornings in Mullaghbawn Community Centre
- 11am – 1pm
- Everyone Welcome
- Learn techniques to help with stress and anxiety
- ‘Energy Awareness’ & exercises to boost your energy system
- Acupressure Points – for relieving & releasing pain in the body ie. headaches, pain etc.
- Tai Chi practices – to bring healing & harmony to body, mind & spirit
- Opportunity to make new friends or renew old friendships
Click button below to hear some of the music uses for Capacitar Practices.
This particular piece is called the Leadership Dance:
To this piece of music there are words and actions that have to be followed.
Below are the words to the song, the writing in blue is the actions to the dance:
'Patience Patience
(rub each arm)
Slow Down Slow Down
(rub each arm)
Live in the Moment
(Moving both hands down - palms down)
Live in the Moment
(Moving both hands down - palms down)
Open our hearts to ourselves and to others
(palms up circular motions at waist level)
Fill ourselves with love
(Roll hands in towards your body)
so that we can give to others
(Roll hands in outwards away from body)
and celebrate
(Hold arms up in air & turn around)
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PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH A DISABILITY/SPECIAL NEEDS
'HUGS' support group is open to all parents/carers of children with special needs/disability.
Come along and meet parents with similar experiences, share and learn from each other.
You also have the opportunity to learn techniques & practices for health & well being.
Meetings take place in Mullaghbawn Community Centre. Evening Session - 2nd Wednesday of each month Morning Session - last Wednesday of each month
'Future for Special Needs' Conference 3 May 2011. A large crowd attended our
recent conference in Mullaghbawn Community Centre. Guest Speakers:- Ann Godfrey, Children's Services Planning & Professional Adviser, Patricia Lewsley, Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children & Young People & Kieran McShane, Commissioning Head for Children & Young People's Disabilities. A powerful, drama production by Spanner in the Works Theatre Company addressed the reality of parenting a child with special needs. We also heard personal stories from the local South Armagh area, Paula Martin, a parent shared her experience and Cormac Burns told his personal story of living with a disability. Sixth Sense Youth Group shared their personal
stories on the importance of having a voice & working to make changes for people with disabilities. The conference came to a close with music and song by the brilliant and very talented Rathore Special School Choir.
We wish to sincerely thank everyone who participated in the programme
and to all who attended.
STATISTICS HIGHLIGHTED @ OUR CONFERENCE
In South Armagh 30% of the population are aged between 0 and 17 years old.
In South Armagh the number of children recorded on Module V (Special Needs) increased by 18.5% since 2004.
In Southern Board Area the rate per 1000 children with a disability is 34.5%. In the 10 electoral wards of South Armagh the rates are as follows:-
| Bessbrook 50 | Camlough 38 | Creggan 46 | Crossmaglen 58 | Derrymore 38 |
| Fathom 34 | Forkhill 30 | Newtownhamilton 46 | Silverbridge 38 | Tullyhappy 28 |
There are 378 children in South Armagh with Special Needs/Disability.
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FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP
- Support Group Meeting held last Thursday of each month.
- Venue:- Mullaghbawn Community Centre, Tullymacrieve Road, Mullaghbawn.
- Time:- 11am – 1pm
- Open to people living with this chronic pain syndrome
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition of widespread pain and profound fatigue. It is estimated in Northern Ireland that up to 3% of the population suffer with the condition. Our support group meet on a monthly basis on the last Thursday of each month in Mullaghbawn Community Centre. If you are living with this chronic condition, why not come along and meet others & learn some relaxation techniques and practices for your health and wellbeing.
Fibromyalgia Support NI is a charity & provides:- Information & Assistance.
Helpline:- 0844 8269024 Website:- www.fmsni.org.uk
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PEER BREAST FEEDING PROJECT (2004 - 2011)
Women and Family Health Initiative would like to acknowledge the tremendous work achieved by their peer breast feeding support workers over the past seven years. The workers have through their work successfully embedded breast feeding within the community, raised the statistics for the South Armagh wards and supported numerous family units. The belief at the start of the project that the peer model of women who had breast feed their babies supporting new mothers is proven by the rise in figures and the numbers who have engaged with the workers.
Unfortunately due to lack of funding the Women and Family Health Initiative can no longer sustain the breast feeding project. We will continue to promote breast feeding in the community and our work of supporting families in South Armagh.
Again our sincere thanks to the peer workers and we wish every success to Alice Murphy, Mary Havern, Maureen Moley, Aine Fegan and Rosemary Garvey in the future.