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For some time the Eastern Regional Collaboration Project has identified the need to explore some alternative men's activities within the region as a way to connect with male consumers of the community care system.

We are facilitating the Men's Activity Forum and we hope to have as many males attend as possible. The forum is open to anyone from anywhere. However due to limited space we do have a priority of access procedure in place. Register early to have the best chances of attending!

There is significant evidence to indicate that males are under represented in accessing community services and community based activities. A number of Men's shed type activities have highlighted that the development of "intentional" community based activities better attracts men to engage in such programs.

Quantitative data indicates a current under representation of males utilising main stream care services. Contributing factors include current urban planning practices and the transition of males into new living and care arrangements that involves the loss of familiar social points of contact and associated valued roles.

The Eastern Region Men's Shed was developed from this data, however some anecdotal conversations with potential future consumers highlighted that a 'shed' type service was not attractive to them.

The exploration of alternative intentional community based activities will potentially lead to a number of new collaborations between stakeholders.

The outcomes of the forum include:

• Deliver possible alternate men’s activity models for implementation
• Sharing what may already be in place
• Broaden the application from what it means to be a male to an applied dimension
• Recognize that this is a starting point to the journey and could be a spring board
• Listing the barriers for men, and developing some solutions.
•  What may need to happen to enhance or improve the access to services for men.
• Gaps and needs identification
  

Forum Program

• Men’s Activity Models (presentation)
• Men’s Health and Wellbeing models (presentation)
• The Eastern Region Men's Shed (presentation) 
• A Male Carer perspective (presentation)
• Workshop to identify alternative activity based models that are male specific

Forum details

date: Friday 19 June
venue: Burnside Ballroom, 401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore
time: 12 till 4:30ish

All the presentations will be interactive with the audience and we assure you that it will also be a fun day that will get your weekend off to the right start!

TO REGISTER FOR THE FORUM CLICK HERE

Further information is available from Lui DiVenuto on 08 8304 6153

PLEASE FORWARD THIS INVITATION TO ANY BLOKE YOU THINK WOULD BE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING