ACKNOWLEDGING AND THANKING COMPANIES FOR THEIR SUPPORT

Health Psychology Management Organisation Services would like to acknowledge and thank the following companies for their generosity in donating goods and equipments to our charitable cause in supporting people in need around the globe. Each year we continue to advance the cause of our charitable objectives through donation of goods and equipments as we are dedicated to enhancing the quality and content of the lives of people. The contribution of goods and equipments exemplifies our philosophy, and demonstrate to many potential people in need that we are trying to diminish poverty and provide meaningful experiences to those who otherwise would be destined for despair and hopelessness.  

We acknowledge and thank the following Companies:

• Cannon
• 3M
• BT Community Connections
• thetrainline.com
• Dalebrook
• Sisley UK
  

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Health Psychology Management Org. Services Awarded BT Laptop

   
  
Health Psychology Management Org. Services is celebrating having received a laptop and a year's free wireless broadband access from BT Community Connections award scheme.

This community award scheme is run by BT to give community and charitable organisations the opportunity to access the online world of marketing, recruitment, fundraising, communication and networking. Health Psychology Management org. Services was among thousands that entered the award scheme across the UK and ROI and impressed judges with their ideas on how access to the internet would benefit both our group and the local community.

The award of a laptop would allow us to download a computerised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy software package on the laptop for community use to support people with mental long-term health conditions. The online therapy encompasses strategies, activities and interventions to develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and well-being of individuals.

We are absolutely delighted with our BT Community Connections award. This furthers our work directly with beneficiaries and frontline staff in providing psychological support for organisations and people in need.

Promoting Healthy Eating and Greater Physical Activity Among BME Groups (2009-2010)

HP - MOS is lunching a project - Promoting Healthy Eating and Greater Physical Activity among Black and Minority Ethnic Groups

• The main objective of the project is to provide a framework for a comprehensive Healthier lifestyle program for Black and Minority Ethnic At Risk-communities to
  address general and particular concerns of food nutritional contents, effective physical activities with a focus on health and well-being
• Being overweight can contribute or lead to a range of health conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, indigestion and some cancers. Obesity levels are becoming an increasing issue for BME groups, as greater numbers of people put on extra weight, through poor diet or insufficient exercise
• The project in particular will focus on structured self-help activities to offer BME groups the opportunity to combine advice on nutrition and physical activity with
  behaviour change techniques with the support of others in the same position to manage their weight concerns
• The project activities include a dietician and an exercise specialist to design nutritional information and physical activities to produce interactive DVD as a tool for
  promoting healthy eating in supporting Black and Ethnic Minority beneficiaries in communities.

Multilateral Grundtvig Project October 2008 – September 2010

HP - MOS and its 16 European partners are engaged in Research on social inclusion by means of art therapy: tested method and European best practices.

Project Title: PhD²: Personal and human Development: Psychodrama to help the disadvantaged

• The main objective of the research is: to study in depth the link between psychodrama, art therapy and social reinstatement of disadvantage people, to analyse the best practices in the field of art therapy in the UK.
• It is widely accepted that, depending on the different causes of social exclusion, educational policies plays a strategic role and it is an essential tool for social cohesion. In recent years, always most frequently, art therapy techniques are exploited in the social inclusion field or in the educational one.
• Psychodrama, in particular, is a method that, according to the different techniques adopted, becomes a very effective tool for research, social reinstatement, therapeutic paths, educational paths etc. Psychodrama resources are able to strengthen the social lives of people, to teach them adaptation strategies and to show them new ways in terms of emotional awareness and knowledge achievement.
• The PhD² project intends to develop and experiment an integrated video-therapy and psychodrama method within a context in which a number of users with different degrees and levels of social disability, disadvantage and social exclusion can re-discover relationship and communication competences (psychodrama workshops) as well as acquiring specialised skills (audio/video production workshops) which can be useful for the integration or re-integration into a working context.