Sláintecare Healthy Communities Programmes

Stop Smoking Services

Stop Smoking Advisor

A Stop Smoking Advisor offers one-to-one support to smokers in the community who are trying to quit. They can provide Nicotine Replacement Therapy and support smoke-free environments.

Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to help you stop smoking

For more information on HSE Quit services, visit quit.ie

We Can Quit

We Can Quit is a friendly and supportive 7-12 week programme designed to help people quit smoking and stay quit for good.

It provides:

  • group behavioural support
  • nicotine replacement therapy
  • other stop smoking medicine

For more information on HSE Quit services visit quit.ie

Parenting programmes

The evidence based parenting programmes support parents' mental health and healthy child development.

Tusla are a key partner in the development of the programme. Their website offers resources on parenting.

Parenting 24 seven - tusla.ie

For more information about pregnancy, baby and toddler health visit My child.

Community Food and Food Poverty

Healthy Food Made Easy

The Healthy Food Made Easy (HFME) is a 6-week community cooking programme.

It helps people to have:

  • a healthy diet
  • plan meals on a budget
  • make easy-to-cook meals.

Community Food and Nutrition Worker

A Community Food and Nutrition Worker improves community health and wellbeing. They address the issues of poor diet and food poverty.

Social Prescribing

A Social Prescribing link worker aims to improve mental health and wellbeing. They link people who need support into community activities and services.

Find social prescribing in your area in All Ireland Social Prescribing.

For more information, visit Social prescribing

Making Every Contact Count

The Making Every Contact Count (MECC) programme supports people to make healthier choices.

The MECC programme works with local health professionals. The programme helps them to have the proper skills to intervene and give advice to patients about healthy behaviours.

Some of the topics they help with are:

  • smoking
  • alcohol use
  • physical activity
  • mental wellbeing
  • diet
  • nutrition

For more information, visit Making Every Contact Count

To find information about the areas, visit Sláintecare Healthy Communities Areas