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Smart D8 For A Healthy District

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Empowering Community Health & Wellbeing

Smart D8 is excited to announce comprehensive health and wellbeing initiatives next year in collaboration with various organizations across Dublin 8.

We aim to foster a healthier and happier community by offering classes and workshops open to workers and residents in Dublin 8.

These initiatives will take place from January until May 2024 in various areas, including The Liberties, Inchicore, Rialto and Dolphin’s Barn. They will be free of charge and open to workers and residents in Dublin 8.

These events are designed to cater to diverse age groups and cover a range of themes, such as healthy food and eating, physical activity, successful and positive ageing and mental health.

Smart D8 will support and collaborate with several organizations already making a significant contribution to the D8 community.

First Quarter of 2024: Healthy Food And Eating, and Physical Activity

In the first quarter of the upcoming year, we will delve into the themes of healthy food and eating, as well as physical activity.

We will support Dublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership and F2 Centre in the delivery of the Change For Life Program and Robert Emmet Community Development Project & South Inner City Community Development Association in the delivery of cooking classes.

Second Quarter of 2024: Successful and Positive Ageing, and Mental Health

In the second quarter, our focus will shift towards successful and positive ageing, as well as mental health.

We will support The Digital Hub, Robert Emmet Community Development Project & South Inner City Community Development Association, and Mercer’s Institute For Successful Ageing in the delivery of digital skills classes, knitting and art workshops aimed at supporting the health and wellbeing of older member of our community.

We will support Magic Minds, Turn2me, Tusla – Child And Family Agency, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Sound Healing Academy, St Michael’s Family Resource Centre, Common Ground, and Inchicore Domestic Violence Centre in the delivery of mental health related workshops (e.g., mindfulness and meditation, how to manage anxiety, women empowerment etc…).

Smart D8: Your Partner In Community Health & Wellbeing

Smart D8 is committed to supporting communities and organisations. If you would like our assistance in organizing and delivering a health and wellbeing event, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@smartd8.ie.

Stay tuned for updates: more info about the dates and locations of the events in January!

Smart D8: Tech Innovations Tackling Health and Social Challenges in Dublin

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The logic that one way to ease pressure on healthcare services is to prevent more people getting ill underpins a piloting of new health and wellness projects in Dublin city.

The State’s “health” policy could be more accurately described as a “sickness” policy, says Jack Lehane, ecosystem manager with Smart D8, as much of the €20 billion-plus budget is spent on treating illness.“There is an idea that you can engage populations at scale and limit the number of people who end up getting sick in the first place. Maybe we could use our resources a little more ‘smartly’. Maybe we don’t need bigger hospitals; we just need fewer people getting sick.”Jack Lehane.

D8is one of the Smart Dublin districts that are looking to fast-track technological innovations to solve local social challenges, with an eye on potential for scaling up citywide, or even nationally and internationally.Working on a catchment area of 43,000people that encompasses neighbourhoods such as the Liberties, Kilmainham and Rialto, as well as St James’s Hospital and St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Smart D8 is focusing on health initiatives.

A 2020 survey of 250 local residents found 31 per cent had long-standing health problems; 27 per cent had accessed mental health service supports in the previous two years; and 21 per cent had unmet health needs due to waiting lists. Smart D8 is a 12-partner consortium led by, among others, Dublin City Council and the Digital Hub, and incorporates academia, public sector, private enterprise and civil society.