All-island Food Poverty Network: Social Prescribing
Does it have a role in tackling food poverty and how can community food projects support it?
Does it have a role in tackling food poverty and how can community food projects support it?
Date: Tuesday 24 September, 2019
Time: 09.45am – 14.50pm
Venue: Sean O’Casey Community Centre, 18-26 St Mary’s Road, North, East Wall, Dublin, D03 AY74. (Open the location in Google Maps)
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Workshop overview
The event explored the positive impact that social prescribing has had on individual health and wellbeing. Presentations highlighted how the role of social prescribing within healthcare could be extended to tackle food poverty within the local community. The event also included examples of community-based approaches and case studies and how food in the community could support social prescribing.
A new afternoon session was added to the workshop which provided an opportunity for academic institutes to showcase research in the area of food poverty on the island of Ireland.
Agenda
Time |
Programme |
Speaker |
| 9.45 - 10.30am | Registration | |
| 10.30 - 12.45am | Conference session | |
| 10.30 - 10.35am | Welcome address | Ray Dolan, safefood |
| 10.35 - 11.00am | Social prescribing: a simple but effective link between the health service and communities | Tony Doherty, Social Prescribing Network Ireland |
| 11.00 - 11.20am | Connecting people, building communities and improving lives through social prescribing | Leeann Monk, Elemental, The Social Prescribing People |
| 11.20 - 11.40pm | Coffee break | |
| 11.40 - 12.00pm | Social prescribing – experience from general practice | Darach Ó Ciardha, General Practitioner |
| 12.00 - 12.20pm | Social prescribing: connecting people through cooking | Margaret O’Neill, Health Service Executive |
| 12.20 - 12.45pm | Roundtable discussion and closing remarks | Ray Dolan, safefood |
| 12.45 - 13.15pm | Lunch | |
| 13.15 - 14.50pm | Research session | |
| 13.15 - 13.20pm | Session introduction | Joana Silva, safefood |
| 13.20 - 13.35pm | Trainee teachers’ perceptions of food poverty during school-based placements | Sinead Furey, Ulster University |
| 13.35 - 13.50pm | Disparities in the cost and availability of a healthy food basket for rural dwellers | Natasha McClelland, Ulster University |
| 13.50 - 14.05pm | Food poverty: experiences in Ireland | Michael Drew, University College Dublin |
| 14.05 - 14.15pm | Charitable food provisioning in the Republic of Ireland: exploring the contribution of surplus food towards a fairer food system | Tara Kenny, University College Cork |
| 14.15 - 14.35pm | Measuring food poverty in Ireland: the importance of including exclusion | Amy Erbe Healy, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick |
| 14.35 - 14.50pm | Panel discussion & closing comments | Fionnuala Close, Food Standards Agency NI |
