Empowering Community Health & Wellbeing in 2024: A New Beginning

As we bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, Smart D8 extends warm wishes for a year filled with joy, growth, and above all, good health to our incredible community. As previously hinted towards the end of last year, Smart D8 is now embarking  on an exciting journey to empower community health and wellbeing throughout 2024.

A Comprehensive Initiative

Our commitment to fostering a healthier and happier community is taking shape through comprehensive health and wellbeing initiatives, forged in collaboration with various esteemed organizations across Dublin 8. The time has come for these initiatives to unfold, and we are delighted to share the details of our inaugural focus.

January Focus: Promoting Healthy Food & Eating

Smart D8 is thrilled to commence this journey with a dedicated focus on promoting healthy food and eating habits. We firmly believe that a foundation of good nutrition lays the groundwork for overall wellbeing. Therefore, from January until March, we are excited to announce our support for two outstanding organizations:

1) Fatima Groups United – ‘Change For Life’ Programme

We will be actively supporting Fatima Groups United in the delivery of nutrition classes as part of their ‘Change For Life’ Programme. These classes aim to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed, health-conscious choices regarding their diet and nutrition.

This Programme is also supported by Dublin City Sport And Wellbeing Partnership, The Family Resource Centre, CDETB, Dolphin House, Sport Irland and HSE.

Dates:

18/01/2024

25/01/2024

01/02/2024

08/02/2024

15/02/2024

22/02/2024

29/02/2024

07/03/2024

Time: 5:30 pm

Location: F2 Centre Fatima

2) Robert Emmet CDP/SICCDA – Cooking On A Budget Classes

We will be actively supporting Robert Emmet CDP/SICCDA in the delivery of ‘Cooking On A Budget’ classes. These classes aim to teach individuals practical skills to create healthy food and affordable meals.

Dates:

29/01/2024

12/02/2024

19/02/2024

26/02/2024

04/03/2024

11/03/2024

18/03/2024

25/03/2024

Time: 10 am – 12 pm

Location: SICCDA (Earl Street)

Stay Connected, Stay Informed

Smart D8 is committed to keeping our community informed and engaged. Throughout the year, we will provide regular updates on our website, ensuring you stay in the loop about upcoming initiatives and events designed to enhance the health and wellbeing of our cherished Dublin 8 residents.

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.

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.

Expect engaging discussions, informative presentations, and interactive workshops led by experts in the field. A wide range of topics will be covered, including managing symptoms, maintaining physical and mental well-being, and navigating relationships during this transformative phase of life.

Date: Monday, 16th October
Time: 10am
Venue: iD8 Studio at The Gatelodge, Roe Lane (off Thomas Street), The Digital Hub, Dublin 8, D08 EY05. Get Directions on Google Maps.
Tickets: This event is free but you must register for a ticket at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/menopause-and-the-city-tickets-708048069837
Further information: Please visit the event page at https://informd.ie/menopause-and-the-city

Menopause And The City is a Smart D8 pilot from Dr Louise Fitzgerald of Grafton Medical Practice/InforMD.ie. The pilot aims to educate women and their family and friends about menopause so they can be empowered to manage their symptoms using self-management strategies but equally know when to seek professional help appropriately.

A project with truly scalable potential, Dr Louise Fitzgerald is aiming for Dublin 8 to become the centre of the first city-wide approach to positive menopause education and support.

This free event — on 16th October — ahead of  World Menopause Day on the 18th  — is the launch event of Menopause And The City. It’s also the perfect opportunity to come together and discuss the challenges and experiences of menopause in a relaxed and informal setting.

Speakers include:

• Aoife Nic Shamhráin, menopause specialist
• Ciara McKenna, menopause specialist
• Clare Farrell, women’s health physiotherapist
• Orna O’Brien, senior dietitian
• Centric Mental Health, chartered clinical counselling psychologist
• Plus more to be announced, including keynote speaker

The event is free to attend but you must register in advance at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/menopause-and-the-city-tickets-708048069837

For updates on the event please see https://informd.ie/menopause-and-the-city

Smart D8 is led by The Digital Hub, St James’s Hospital, Dublin City Council and Smart Dublin. One of five Smart Districts of the Smart Dublin programme and an urban demonstrator for improving health and wellbeing in an urban population, Smart D8 has today announced the successful applicants from their third call for pilot projects. A record number of 60 applications from private and public organisations were received. Four projects have been selected to focus on menopause, physical rehabilitation, exercise and sleep apnea and will share a €50,000 fund to advance their existing work:

Menopause and the City from Dr Louise Fitzgerald of Grafton Medical Practice/InforMD.ie: This pilot is seeking to create a better educational ecosystem around menopause health for both individuals as well as families and friends. A project with truly scalable potential, Dr Louise Fitzgerald is aiming for Dublin 8 to become the centre of the first city-wide approach to positive menopause education and support.

Brace from Conor Motyer: Brace is a community-based recovery app which seeks to assist patients who are undergoing physical rehabilitation. With an added focus on the mental wellness aspect of rehabilitation, Brace uses exercise tracking, gamification and community support to improve both recovery engagement and mental health outcomes arising from research that has found that rehab program completion rates can be as low as 50%.

MoveAhead from Dr Jamie McGann and Dr Johann Issartel: MoveAhead is based on years of clinical experience from both founders, as well as practical research carried out with the GAA which has found that children’s movement skills are deteriorating in line with increased use of screens and technology. MoveAhead is the world’s first motion tracking and movement analytics platform built specifically for children, which informs games to assist with improving children’s movement skills.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) Identifier from Dr Brian Kent/St James’s Hospital: OSA Identifier is seeking to reduce the wait time for a sleep apnea diagnosis, which is currently up to two years. OSA Identifier has developed an app to provide at-home data which can be reviewed by clinical specialists and both inform and speed up diagnosis and treatment options for sleep apnea.

Jack Lehane, Smart D8 Ecosystem Manager, said:

“We were really impressed with the quality of applications for our most recent call for pilots. With the four successful projects we are confident that they have potential to address issues and conditions that are impacting large numbers of people. One thing which particularly stood out was the potential many of them have to scale. At the heart of Smart D8 is cross-sectoral collaboration that allows healthcare innovation to be fast tracked and these projects will greatly enable this.”

The Smart D8 consortium is led by The Digital Hub, St James’s Hospital, Dublin City Council and Smart Dublin, together with the Guinness Enterprise Centre, HSE Digital Transformation, Tyndall National Institute, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Trinity College Dublin Research & Innovation, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, National College of Art & Design, and Health Innovation Hub Ireland.

The initial work of Smart D8 focused on significant community research to measure unmet population health and wellness needs.

Following on from this research, a number of pilot projects were actioned to directly respond to this community feedback. A range of innovations have already been rolled out with positive impacts on population health and wellbeing – reaching over 5,000 citizens in and around the Dublin 8 district, before scaling nationally. These initiatives include Heart of Our City which aimed at improving awareness around and management of cardiovascular disease in the community, Civic Dollars which enabled people to earn digital currency through spending time in local parks, and Ways To Wellbeing which boosted the wellbeing and mental health of elderly people by giving them the chance to connect with young people in their community in a meaningful way.

[ This Call for Pilots is Now Closed ]

Following two years of success in engaging Enterprise, Academia and a range of relevant stakeholders, the Smart D8 initiative has delivered 8 impactful and scalable pilots. In 2023 this engagement will continue with a third open call for pilots.

Continuing to focus on the measured health and wellbeing needs of the 25,000 strong diverse Dublin 8 population, this call will focus on three themes namely:

• Positive and Healthy Ageing,
• Connected Patient in the Community, and
• Population Health.

Smart D8 seek to support the development of impactful, scalable and sustainable pilots involving enterprise, academic and other relevant public and private stakeholders. The pilot proposals should be ready to deploy with end users and should be in a position to measure impacts within a six-month timeframe.

To apply, please submit your proposal here: https://smartdublin.ie/smart-districts/smart-d8/ by Friday, 05^th May 2023 at 23:00

Smart D8 Pilot Call Themes

Some examples of the types of pilots which would be relevant to the Dublin 8 population are given here for illustrative purposes. Smart D8 takes a very broad perspective on population health and wellbeing. Balancing preventative approaches with the support for patients in the community and in innovation in the delivery of healthcare, the pilot call is broad in the application areas.

Positive and Healthy Ageing

• General Preventative Health solutions that can be implemented in a community setting to maintain good health and wellbeing.
• Support for patients living in the community.
• Ways to better integrate the ageing population into communities.
• Providing support for the ageing population making a valuable contribution to communities.
• Health and wellbeing services focused on an ageing population.

Connected Patient in the Community

• Connected Patient in the Community
• Support for patients living in the community.
• Health and wellbeing services focused on patients living in a community.
• Chronic Disease Management which will allow people to manage chronic health conditions in the community.
• Social prescribing and related services.
• Support for community-based services.
• Approaches to Health and wellbeing education and learning.

Population Health

• Chronic Disease Management which will allow people to manage chronic health conditions in the community.
• General Preventative Health solutions that can be implemented in a community setting to maintain good health and wellbeing.
• Ways to encourage better exercise and nutrition.
• Ways to reduce stress in the general population.
• Approaches to Health and wellbeing education and learning.
• Health and wellbeing services focused on a general population.

Who Should Apply?

The pilot call is open to all Enterprise, Academy, Public and Private sector organisations, who:

• Offer innovative and scalable solutions (products, services or devices).
• Provides new practices/solutions/perspectives that address an unmet need in the community.
• Have a solution that is ready for end user deployment within six months.
• Can be enabled by a co creation and collaboration with the Smart D8 partners and beyond.

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to pilot and demonstrate the impact and scalability of your offering in a real-world community setting.
• Access to a unique collaborative ecosystem with established clinical, academic, public and private sector engagement
• Funding support available for selected pilots.
• Project management support
• Marketing and promotion support
• Access to free workspace in Dublin 8 during the pilot period.

Application Process and Timelines

• Process : Applicants must submit a completed application form through the Smart D8 website. Applicants can apply for more than one call.
• Call opens : Monday, 27^th March 2023
• Call closes : on Friday, 05^th May 2023 at 23:00
• Evaluation of proposals :
  Your submission will be reviewed by expert panel drawn from the Smart D8 partners.  A shortlist of applicants will be selected and will be asked to make a presentation to the evaluation panel. An update on the call outcome is aimed to be provided to all applicants by end-May.   
• Projects start : June 2023
• Projects present results/interim results : December 2023

Evaluation & Selection Criteria

Pilot applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria :

• Impact
  Smart D8 want to back projects which can produce and measure clear impacts.
• Innovativeness
  A level of innovation in terms of technology, service will be required. Innovation in the approach taken to pilot the advance with end users will also be evaluated.
• Scalability
  An evaluation will be made as to how scalable is your proposed solution after the pilot? Applications will be studied on the basis of the ambitions for scale and how will they be achieved.
• Team & Resources
  The Smart D8 evaluation panel will consider what resources and people are being supplied to the pilot and what the ask is in terms of people and resources from Smart D8.
• User-driven
  The evaluation team will look for proposal that are end user focussed. The measures of impacts on the health and wellbeing of the population of D8 will be scored.
• Alignment with the objectives of the Smart D8 project
  Smart D8 takes a very broad perspective on population health and wellbeing. Balancing preventative approaches with the support for patients in the community and in innovation in the delivery of healthcare, the pilot will be evaluated against these objectives.

• New call for pilot projects in three areas: Population Health, Positive and Healthy Ageing, and Connected Patients in the Community
• Latest call for pilots follows significant work undertaken in the community to date, with a €50,000 fund available
• Smart D8 is led by The Digital Hub, St James’s Hospital, Dublin City Council and Smart Dublin

‘Smart D8’ is an urban demonstrator providing opportunities for indigenous and international innovators to investigate how smart technology and innovative approaches can be used to improve health and wellbeing in an urban population.

Today, Smart D8 announces the launch of a new call for pilots.

Smart D8 is looking to engage and collaborate with private companies, academics, healthcare providers and public organisations who want to demonstrate their innovative solutions with the local community.

The initial work of Smart D8 focused on significant community research to measure unmet population health and wellness needs.

Following on from this research, a number of pilot projects were actioned to directly respond to this community feedback. A range of innovations have already been rolled out with positive impacts on population health and wellbeing – reaching over 5,000 citizens in and around the Dublin 8 district, before scaling nationally. These initiatives include Heart of Our City which aimed at improving awareness around and management of cardiovascular disease in the community, Civic Dollars which enabled people to earn digital currency through spending time in local parks, and Ways To Wellbeing which boosted the wellbeing and mental health of elderly people by giving them the chance to connect with young people in their community in a meaningful way.

Smart D8 is now seeking applications for a new round of pilot projects focused on Population Health, Positive and Healthy Ageing, and Connected Patients in the Community to continue health and wellbeing innovation in Dublin 8 and beyond.

Stephen Brennan, Head of Strategy and Partnerships at The Digital Hub and Chair of Smart D8, said:

“Smart D8 opens our third round of pilot project calls and is responding to real health and wellbeing needs of citizens in Dublin 8 and beyond – and looking for the best solutions to challenges in Population Health, Positive and Healthy Ageing, and Connected Patients in the Community. We are especially interested in working with those who want to demonstrate their products, services and research in real-world conditions.”

Jack Lehane, Smart D8 Ecosystem Manager, said:

“Community outreach has been at the heart of Smart D8 since its inception. This new call provides a great opportunity to expand this forward-looking approach to healthcare innovation. By providing access to communities and local infrastructures, we will provide a platform for innovation to thrive and taking a health and wellness approach will help reduce the number of people who get sick in the first place.”

Orla Veale, Academic Health Science Campus Director at St. James’s Hospital, said:

“Healthcare is changing rapidly and moving to a more preventative model that considers the wider determinants of health, outside of the traditional boundaries of the hospital environment. To address these challenges and realise opportunities for the Irish healthcare system, it needs to be a collaborative endeavour. St. James’s Hospital are delighted to continue our participation in Smart D8 and look forward to seeing the continued impact for the public.”

Jamie Cudden, Smart City Lead at Dublin City Council, said:

“The Smart D8 partnership is a unique collaboration that cuts across 12 public, private and academic partners who are backing these pilot calls with access to funding, expertise, know- how and wider organisational supports. Dublin City Council through our Smart Dublin initiative are excited to be supporting this pilot call which has such potential to bring innovative ideas and solutions to the Dublin 8 area.”

The lead partners are joined in the Smart D8 consortium by the Guinness Enterprise Centre, HSE Digital Transformation, Tyndall National Institute, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Trinity College Dublin Research & Innovation, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, National College of Art & Design, and Health Innovation Hub Ireland.

Applicants can apply here at https://smartdublin.ie/smart-districts/smart-d8/

Smart D8 is pushing boundaries through innovative approaches to bees and data.

Bee8 is a community-driven social enterprise supported by The Digital Hub, National College of Art and Design, St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services and Tyndall National Institute. The project is developing a link between society, nature and wellbeing using bees and data. By integrating sensors into beehive sites, the health of the bees, local air quality and CO2 levels offer local residents and the hive managers insights into Dublin 8’s biodiversity.

 

Impact

By January 2023, Bee 8 :

• Integrated 22 sensors into over 60 beehive sites
• Provided insights into a sustainable model for community-led bee keeping and honey production at scale
• Generated a diversity of online material to promote health, wellbeing and environmental sustainability

To keep updated on the plan and progress of the Bee8 project please visit bee8.ie

If you would like to learn hear more about the project or get involved please contact info@smartd8.ie.

Smart D8 has launched its largest pilot project to date with the introduction of a new ‘Civic Dollars’ community currency to encourage use of public parks and drive better health outcomes for the community.

The project, led by Dublin City Council, will use a smartphone app to reward visitors with the new Civic Dollars for spending time in participating Dublin 8 parks, which can then be exchanged for goods and services from local businesses or gifted to local community organisations.

Civic Dollars is the brainchild of Moai Digital founder Stephen McPeake and has already been successfully rolled out in Belfast. Over 3,000 hours of activity have been registered in participating Belfast parks, with 1,530 Civic Dollars redeemed and 1,043 donated to community groups.

 

Project Activities

Companies participating in Civic Dollars by offering direct rewards to users include Epic Ireland, The Bike Hub, Mobility Genie, Little Bird Café, Adonis Flower Designers, Bite of Life Café and CBRE Ireland. In addition, users can gift their Civic Dollars to participating community groups and organisations who can exchange these for a range of useful services such as marketing advice, IT consultations, legal consultations, and graphic design work. Participating companies include VAVA Influencers, Little Bird Yoga, Core Tech IT, Paul Saxon Consulting, and Éire Graphic Design.

Community groups participating in Civic Dollars include Warrenmount Community Education Centre near Newmarket, Robert Emmet CDP who supports communities around Bridgefoot Street and Oliver Bond House, Solas Project which has a range of programmes focused on skills for young people, Fatima Groups United, which supports the community of Fatima and Herberton, Focus Ireland, Common Ground, 61st Merchant’s Quay Scouts and Shannon’s HopeLine.

9 parks in Dublin 8 are participating in the pilot: St Audoen’s Park, St Patrick’s Park, Weaver Park, Oscar Square in The Liberties, Grattan Park in Inchicore, The Memorial Gardens, Grand Canal, Turvey Park and St James Linear Park. Some of the parks have seen recent investment by Dublin City Council who aims to roll the scheme out to other parks under its control if it is a success. The Civic Dollars pilot will run for 5 months, and the team are hoping to attract 1,000 users in the first 2 months.

The app does not measure steps or distance that the users accumulate in the park, just the time spent in a zone, ensuing that users with mobility or health issues are not discriminated against and can participate fully.

Lord Mayor of Dublin Alison Gilliland said:

“Dublin’s parks are an asset to the city, and during the pandemic many Dubliners have realised the importance of access to green space for recreation and leisure. We need to encourage increased use of our parks, and the Civic Dollars project will do that while having the added benefit of contributing to local businesses and community organisations. Civic Dollars and the wider Smart D8 project are prime examples of community-focused innovation which will improve the health and wellbeing of our citizens.”

The technology used for Civic Dollars is non-invasive and privacy-friendly, by only using GPS data and allowing users to opt in once they enter a park. Data is anonymised, and a user’s session will end automatically once they walk out of the park geo-fence. Data gathered will be used by Dublin City Council to analyse park usage and allow for future planning and infrastructure improvements.

Impact

The project goal is to decrease health inequality and help citizens who are not currently active to take part and improve their wellbeing. Since the launch of Civic Dollars, the app has encouraged people to spend more time in parks in Dublin 8. It has also encouraged 43% of people to donate their civic dollars to local charities and community groups. The app has also allowed app users to report issues found around the various parks.

By March 2022, we reported

• 1,185 app users
• 1,509 hours of park activity generated
• 3 issues reported

For more information on Civic Dollars click here.

If you would like to learn hear more about the project or get involved please contact info@smartd8.ie.

Ways to Wellbeing initiative launched to foster Positive Mental Health

Wellbeing initiative to focus on fostering positive mental health and connections among young and older persons

A new intergenerational project, Ways to Wellbeing, which aims to foster local connections and encourage students to learn about wellbeing and mental health from older persons in their community, has launched a pilot phase across six schools in the Dublin 8 area.

Ways to Wellbeing is a project by Walk in My Shoes, the flagship awareness-raising campaign of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, and was produced in collaboration with Smart D8, an initiative that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of citizens in Dublin 8.

Launching on 1 October to coincide with International Day for Older Persons, the project is tailored towards primary and secondary school students and aims to promote positive mental health, wellbeing, and learning through the facilitation of meaningful and rewarding conversations between young and older persons in the community.

Through participating in the project, students will seek to learn the following from the older population in their community:

• Ways to build and maintain wellbeing
• How to build resilience
• An important lesson that made a positive difference to their life.

The pilot phase of the initiative, which will see 306 students taking part, invites participants to interview family members from the Dublin 8 area; write letters to day centres or nursing homes; and utilise a range of mediums, such as podcasts, written stories, film or photography, to create engaging projects that showcase the connections between young and old, and what the students have learned.

To help them get started with their projects, all students, and their teachers, received a Ways to Wellbeing Project Information Pack outlining all the various approaches they can take.

The schools taking part are:

• Scoil Treasa Naofa,Donore Avenue
• Griffith Barracks MDS , South Circular Road
• Scoil Mhuire gan Smál , Inchicore
• St Enda’s Primary School, Whitefriar Street
• Presentation Secondary School Warrenmount
• Christian Brothers Secondary School Synge Street.

Amanda McArdle, Campaign Manager of Walk in My Shoes said: “Walk in My Shoes is delighted to collaborate with Smart D8 to launch this exciting and innovative new project on a pilot basis across schools in the Dublin 8 community. Ways to Wellbeing is an opportunity for younger people to learn about wellbeing and resilience from the diverse experience and expertise of older people, while also promoting positive mental health in the older population through connectivity and inclusion.”

Orla Veale, Lead at Smart D8 said: “Smart D8 is proud to partner with Walk in My Shoes and St Patrick’s Mental Health Services on the Ways to Wellbeing project. We are excited to see how this intergenerational initiative will impact positive mental health and wellbeing within the local community.”

At the end of the pilot, all students’ projects will be added to the Walk in My Shoes School Portal, an online platform that enables school staff to highlight and share what they are doing in their schools, classrooms, and communities to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. A number of winning projects will then be selected and displayed in an exhibition and digital display in St Patrick’s University Hospital, and Dublin 8 over January and February 2022.

Following on from the roll-out of the pilot project in Dublin 8, it is hoped that the initiative will launch in schools across Ireland from early in 2022.

For more information on Ways to Wellbeing click here.

Smart D8 announces first pilot call selections focused on Population Health & Mental Health

Smart D8 is a collaborative initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of citizens in Dublin 8 through innovation.

Bringing together public authorities, academia, healthcare, citizens and industry, Smart D8 applies a people-centred approach, with the engagement and active participation of the local community at its core. In late 2020, the first Smart D8 Community Survey was launched, capturing the needs and priorities of the local community

In response to this survey, our first call for pilots was launched in March 2021 and we are delighted to announce the selected pilots that will be implemented in Autumn 2021.

Category: Population Health 

Heart of our City 

In partnership with the Irish Heart Foundation and Novartis, Heart of our City is a population health program that will focus on heart health in Dublin 8.  This pilot project will connect people in Dublin 8 with a range of resources to support their cardiovascular health, building on existing social prescribing initiatives in the locality.

Social Currency Community Platform  

Civic Dollars is a social currency platform that is used by citizens to improve health through physical activity and also supports connection with their local community.

This pilot will allow people to earn rewards for time spent in local parks and open spaces.

Category: Mental Health

Ways to Wellbeing: Learning from Locals

In partnership with St.Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Ways to Wellbeing is a project that will support students in learning about mental health and wellbeing through engaging with the lives of the older community in Dublin 8.   The project is designed for students of both primary and secondary schools in the locality.

Virtual Reality Meditation Platform 

In partnership with SolasVR,  this project will pilot a Virtual Reality Meditation platform in the community.  SolasVR enables a micro-break to allow the users to create some time and space away from events or situations that are impacting them.

Mental Health Literacy 

The aim of this pilot project is to address the health literacy and digital health literacy challenges faced by adults with mental health needs. The aim of this proposal is to co-design solutions with people engaging in mental health services that will empower them in their treatment and decision-making.

 

Pilot Call 2

Thank you to all the organisations and people who applied for our first pilot call.  The next pilot call will be in November 2021 and the focus categories will be Population Health and Positive & Healthy Ageing. If you have any questions, please email info@smartd8.ie.