Promoting Well Being

In April 2008, Catherine McBennett and Seamus McCabe were appointed as Protect Life Community Development Workers. The posts have been funded by the Southern Health and Social Care Trust under Protect Life. Catherine is employed by the Niamh Louise Foundation and Seamus by PIPS Newry and Mourne. Catherine and Seamus link with the Protect Life Resource Centres and work together to cover the entire Southern Trust area, which includes Armagh, Dungannon, Craigavon, Banbridge and Newry and Mourne.

The role of the Protect Life Community Development Workers is to support communities in relation to suicide and self –harm prevention; intervention and postvention to:

• Raise awareness
• Identify local need
• Develop strategies and action plans to address identified need;
• Build local capacity
• Develop community infrastructure
• Develop multi-agency and cross-sectoral partnerships.
• Highlight and share good practice
• Develop services to meet local need.

Contact :
Catherine at 07717876037
OR
Seamus at 07707039799