Room for Art is social prescribing project, providing visual arts workshops facilitated by professional artists. Our participants are referred by GPs, OTs, community link workers, social care agencies, and through self-referral. Our participants are people who were already very vulnerable prior … [Read more...] about Iona’s Blog: Room for Art- Keeping participants creative and well in their homes during Covid 19

Here at West Dunbartonshire CVS, the local Third Sector Interface, we pride ourselves on our community focus and our commitment to co-producing services with those who will ultimately use them. Our strapline, ‘for communities…with communities’ isn’t just words to us, it’s our promise underpinning … [Read more...] about Daren’s Blog: West Dunbartonshire Cares

In Ayrshire the Breastfeeding Network Peer supporters work in partnership with midwives, health visitors and the infant feeding team to create an Integrated Infant Feeding Team. Our peer supporters offer evidence based, non-judgemental and unbiased Breastfeeding support to Mum’s who have birthed via … [Read more...] about Kayleigh’s Blog: Virtual Peer Support for Parents in Ayrshire

CLiCK is a Scotland-wide project supporting women who sell or exchange sex. We are a partnership of organisations working together with women’s needs and voices at the heart of the service. Our trained, trauma informed Women’s Workers across Scotland provide personalised support led by the women’s … [Read more...] about Anna’s Blog: guided by women’s feedback and lived experience

Informing families and facilitating friendships The idea for Breast Buddies (BB), a mum to mum peer support service for new mothers, originated in Perth & Kinross and was conceived and developed in 2017 by a group of NHS breastfeeding support volunteers who were also local mums. Fast forward … [Read more...] about Cara’s Blog: Breast Buddies Virtual Antenatal Education

Caring for those approaching the end of life in Scottish Hospitals Over half a million Scots will die in acute hospitals in the next twenty years, and millions of people with palliative care needs and approaching the end of life will be cared for in a hospital in the years and months before their … [Read more...] about Richard’s Blog: Past, Present and Future

During the Covid pandemic this year, the National Breastfeeding Helpline has provided (and continues to do so) a vital service to families, offering evidence based, non-judgmental, unbiased, accessible breastfeeding information and support to anyone who needed it. The helpline, funded by the … [Read more...] about Felicity’s Blog: National Breastfeeding Helpline – our response to the Covid-19 pandemic

It is a great opportunity to be involved in the VHS Annual Conference and come together to talk about public health in Scotland. Public health and the part we play, whether as organisations or individuals, is undoubtedly going to be at the forefront for us all in the foreseeable future. During … [Read more...] about Marion’s Blog: Safeguarding for health & wellbeing