SMILE: Student Managed Initiatives in Lifestyle Education
The health and well being program is led
The SMILE: Student Managed Initiative in Lifestyle Education programme aims to bring local people together in a community setting through a health and wellbeing educational art making workshop. We are based at the Dallas Neighbourhood House, located in Dallas Victoria.
16/10/2017
Today we ran our SMILE health kiosk at the Broadmeadows Leisure Centre, where we got to meet members of the community, offer health assessments and talk about their health and wellbeing, Thank you to everyone who took some time to have a chat with us!
02/10/2017
Last week we had the opportunity to conduct a health kiosk at Broadmeadows Leisure Centre. We also ran a SMILE workshop at Estia aged care, we enjoyed chatting to the residents and making some pom poms to utilise during the AFL Grand Final on Saturday.
The next SMILE Kiosk is tomorrow at The Age Library, Broadmeadows from 10am-12pm.
Today's SMILE Health Kiosk at the Broadmeadows Leisure Centre went well.
We got to meet some lovely community members and have a chat about their health.
The next SMILE Health Kiosk will be on Monday October 2nd at The Age Library (Broadmeadows) from 10am.
We look forward to seeing you!
27/09/2017
Come to Dallas Neighbourhood House on the 11th of October for the MIND your health forum!
26/09/2017
All women are invited to attend the Women's Group at Dallas Neighbourhood House on Wednesday the 4th of October.
We hope to see you all there!
25/09/2017
Today’s SMILE Workshop was with the men’s group at Roxburgh Youth Centre.
The workshop provided an opportunity for students and participants of the group to chat about different ways we can maintain a healthy lifestyle and a healthy heart.
We had a chance to bring out our creative skills and build pallet coasters out of popsicle sticks as part of our art activity, which was a great way to improve our problem solving skills!
We got to see some very impressive pieces.
We welcome all community members to be involved in our SMILE workshops.
21/09/2017
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Hope you all are doing well. 3rd Year Nursing Students from Latrobe University will be offering free health checks tomorrow at The Age Library at Broadmeadows from 10 am to 12 pm. Please do come and have a chat.
Looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow.
It's Free!!!! No Registration Required!! Everyone Welcome!!!
20/09/2017
Hi All,
Everyone from Dallas Neighbourhood House and Latrobe University would like to thank you all for making yesterday's Healthy Ageing Forum successful. We hope you all found the forum fun. Our primary goal was to promote understanding on the importance of healthy ageing. Hope you found the activities engaging and informative.
Thank you all for coming to celebrate healthy ageing with us and thank you all for your positive feedback.
Thank you all once again for being part of the forum. Much Appreciated
18/09/2017
Hello Everyone,
Hope you are all doing well. Dallas Neighbourhood House in partnership with Latrobe University would like to invite you all for tomorrow's Healthy Ageing Forum (Get Bold Not Old) happening at the Dallas Neighbourhood House from 9 am to 2 pm.
We will be providing free health checks to promote healthy ageing followed by fun filled activities throughout the day. Feel free to join us to celebrate the healthy ageing and share your experience and feedback. Number of stalls will be running at the venue to provide information on primary health service available in the community. It's Free!!!!
Looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow at the venue: 180-182 Widford Street, Broadmeadows
Please Have a look at the attached flyer for more information.
14/09/2017
Today’s SMILE Health Kiosk at Lynda Blundel Senior Centre provided a great opportunity for students to meet and provide free health checks. The health kiosk offers consumers the opportunity to be able to engage in health related conversations.
The health kiosk also provides mindfulness activities that community members can participate in. These mindfulness activities also act as stress relievers which we have been able to see first-hand as being highly effective.
All of us here at Dallas Neighborhood house enjoyed today and being able to interact with the wider community.
We welcome all members of the community to come and say hello when these SMILE health kiosks are running.
We have our next SMILE Kiosk at Broadmeadows Leisure Centre tomorrow (15/9/17) from 2:30-4:30
13/09/2017
At Today's SMILE workshop we had a very successful class, which began with addressing and discussing STRESS.
We looked at how to recognize stress and how it affects us physically and mentally when we are stressed. We also discussed within the group easy and effective ways to manage stress.
At the end of this stress talk we listened and used the below mindfulness video, which was rated highly effective among the group at the end.
Please feel free to click on the link below and enjoy this video to help you feel a little less stressed.
From the current students at the Dallas Neighbourhood House :)
GUIDED MEDITATION: 4 MINUTE STRESS BUSTER Made for people with very little time, you may use this short 4-minute long stress busting meditation to bring calm to any stressful situation. All you need ...
12/09/2017
HEALTHY AGEING FORUM:
Have you heard what is happening next week on Tuesday the 19th?
If you haven’t then continue reading as we have a fun filled day aimed at educating the community about healthy aging. There are a number of stalls we will be running that will help to educate and provide guidance in how you can be active in your own ageing.
There will also be a FREE light lunch provided.
Please look at the posted below for more information about the fun filled day.
We all look forward to seeing you there.
From the current students at the Dallas Neighbourhood house.
