1. Children and Young People’s Health Improvement

2. Current IESD Grants
Changing the Game for
Girls: In Action
Street Play: Active,
Healthy Communities

3. Current IESD Grants

4. 2014 IESD Grants
Theme 3: Improving public health
Proposals that promote better public health and help reduce premature mortality.
We are particularly interested in proposals that take a preventative approach across
the life course in relation to the priorities set out below.
Priorities:
1.) Support and enable all parts of society, particularly disadvantaged groups, to make
positive changes in their lifestyle choices and behaviours that will help them to live
longer, healthier lives and improve their overall wellbeing, for example, by improving
diet and nutrition; increasing levels of physical activity; reducing smoking and use of
tobacco products; preventing and recovering from substance misuse (drug and alcohol
misuse);
2.) Promote public mental health and wellbeing at individual and community levels.
Prevent suicide in high risk groups. Improve mental, physical and emotional health in
the workplace.

5. Assets-based approach
• Focuses on the protective factors that
enhance the individual’s abilities to make
good decisions about their health.
• Focuses on individuals’ and communities’
positive capacity to identify problems and
activate solutions, rather than factors which
cause disease.

6. Resilience
• Resilience relates to the ability to achieve good
outcomes in the face of adversity.
• Attributes that people draw on in order to be
resilient differ from person to person, but commonly
include:
– Self-esteem
– Self-confidence
– Self-efficacy
– Problem solving approach

7. Resilience
• Resilience relates to the ability to achieve good
outcomes in the face of adversity.
• Attributes that people draw on in order to be
resilient differ from person to person, but commonly
include:
– Self-esteem
– Self-confidence
– Self-efficacy
– Problem solving approach