ULSTER GAA: The worth of Wholesome Membership Officers

HEALTHY Membership Officers and Well being & Wellbeing Committees proceed to carry out a useful position in GAA golf equipment throughout the globe. How unbelievable it’s that individuals from all walks of life internationally are benefitting from the formal well being and wellbeing exercise that has been organised by their GAA membership?

In fact, we profit from being concerned within the GAA in additional methods than simply by means of formal well being and wellbeing exercise; and but the advantages have grown exponentially since golf equipment have begun to nominate Wholesome Membership Officers, and their committees.

Most golf equipment now have an appointed Wholesome Membership Officer, and the significance of the position has been more and more recognised.

A Wholesome Membership Officer doesn’t must have any medical {qualifications}, or expertise working within the well being sector. Fairly the position requires people who find themselves empathetic, are nicely organised and are good at reaching out to others to see what campaigns and help is already on the market. The position doesn’t imply having  to tackle to do tons extra actions within the membership. In reality, it’s most popular that golf equipment take a modest and smart method to it. Whether or not as an official GAA Wholesome Membership or not, the work of the Wholesome Membership Officer is a a lot valued one.

As soon as appointed Wholesome Membership Officers ought to inform their County Well being & Wellbeing Committees that they’re now within the position. This may assist to kind networks, as County Well being and Wellbeing Committees are linked into programmes from each Nationwide and Ulster GAA.

County Well being & Wellbeing Committees may be contacted by emailing chair.hwc.[insert county name]@gaa.ie. For instance: chair.hwc.tyrone@gaa.ie. Failure to tell your County HWC that you’re within the position will imply that you’ll miss out on essential info.

Ulster GAA’s Officer Growth programme will as soon as once more be delivered on-line for 2023. A Wholesome Membership Workshop will probably be delivered on-line on Thursday, January  29 2023 at 7pm, by way of Microsoft Groups. The workshop have to be pre-booked. Preserve an eye fixed out on https://ulster.gaa.ie/ and social media to register. Ulster GAA have a raft of programmes which golf equipment can use to implement nicely resourced, and well-supported programmes.

It’s massively essential to plan any actions that are as a consequence of happen. Taking a yearly method is smart, with sure programmes being extra related at specific instances of the 12 months. The 4 ideas of rolling-out any programme embody:

– The membership – set up the necessity inside the membership and what the advantages of any programme would deliver to the membership.

– Plan – utilizing a 12 months method plan your membership’s actions, based mostly round what GAA actions usually happen at varied instances of the 12 months.

– Companions – hyperlink along with your County Well being & Wellbeing Committee, and Ulster GAA along with your concepts about what must be finished, as oftentimes there are already partnerships in place to ship a sound programme.

– Exercise – work-out the logistics of the actions that may be delivered in your membership which enhance the day-to-day actions already on-going.

Ulster GAA programmes cowl a variety of matters, reminiscent of bodily well being, psychological well being, substance mis-use, screening, way of life, preparedness, and hyperlinks with charities. Golf equipment are inspired to make use of the microsite as a sound reference level about something regarding well being and wellbeing, each in Ulster and nationally.

Finally within the position of Wholesome Membership Officer you will need to keep in mind the extent of the place’s duty, which is to: Talk, Assist, and Signpost.

For extra info vist: http://ulster.gaa.ie/well being/.