BLESST Centre Building Community Relationships & Research
The aim of the project was to engage with communities in local wards to try to understand their needs around access to health screening, generate relevant research projects to develop a local impact in the future, and enable communities to inform the health department such as the Villa Vision Project, of ways to address their needs while looking to develop routes to communicate for future engagement. BLESST saw this as an important part to support our community relationships and community learning with others and research where we share and learn from each other through participation on a levelled ground of meaningful engagement. We further supported the campaign by engagement in helping to create and capture the key themes from the community in this short film documentary. ​
YMCA Young People Mental Health Awareness Stories
BLESST support young people by giving young people a platform to sharing there lived experiences of mental health in our BLESST centre digital recording studio, using story telling and music as the tool which resulted in young people creating a podcast on mental health.