Healthy City

Objective

Actions

Contact (Lead and Partners)

Action Ref. #

Support the Healthy Cities Strategy

Implement the actions in the Healthy Cities Strategy.

HSE , Cork City Council, LCDC, CETB, UCC, CIT, Cork Smart Gateway and other City Stakeholders.

2.1

Incorporate and support the implementation of the Healthy Cities initiative as a central role for the LCDC.

LCDC, HSE , Cork City Council, CETB, UCC, CIT, and other City Stakeholders.

2.2

Support Health Action Zones

Promote positive mental well being and promote physical activity across all age ranges and all population groups.

HSE and other City Stakeholders

2.3

Support the reduction level of consumption of alcohol in Cork City over the next 6 years, including the implementation of the Cork City Alcohol Strategy.

HSE and other City Stakeholders

2.4

Support the implementation of the Cork/Kerry Alcohol Reduction Strategy 2015

LCDC, HSE, CLDATF and other relevant city stakeholders

2.5

Investigate the feasibility of the creation a tobacco free city.

HSE and other City Stakeholders

2.6

Roll out the suicide prevention action plan for Cork City and County, that implements relevant actions set out in “Connecting for Life”, the new national strategy to reduce suicide 2015-2020

Healthy Cities, HSE, ETC, UCC, CIT, Pieta Cork and other City Stakeholders.

2.7

Support the Cork Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force Strategy (CLDATF)

Develop engagement and create links with the CLDATF.

LCDC and other City Stakeholders

2.8

Support the Cork Food Council's Strategy

Develop a food charter in partnership with relevant stakeholders and enable organisations in the city to transform their food culture.

Food Council and other City Stakeholders

2.9

Continue to support and expand the empowerment of people to grow and cultivate their own food locally within the city.

Cork City Council, Food Council and other City Stakeholders

2.10

Support the Cork City Sports Partnership

Support the implementation of the “Cork Sports Partnership Plan”, 2015-2021 within the city.

Cork Sports Partnership, Cork City Council and other city stakeholders.

2.11

Strengthen and promote Cork’s Maritime activities by achieving the Cork Tourism Strategy (2016) vision to become “Ireland’s Maritime Paradise”

Investigate the development of a Maritime centre to promote greater use of the river in the City.

Cork City Council and HSE.

2.12

Investigate the development of a Maritime City Strategy to promote tourism, employment around river based activities in the City.

Cork City Council and Community Groups.

2.13

Investigate the feasibility of a City Maritime festival with links between river activities and on-shore river bank activities.

Cork City Council and Community Groups.

2.14

Create a better quality of life for city residents.

Review the existing Cork Recreational Needs Study (2003) and Cork City Parks Strategy (2000).

Cork City Council and other relevant community groups.

2.15

Identify and support greater recreational amenities in the city, including walking and cycling links and local parks, through the review of the Cork Recreational Needs Study (2003).

Cork City Council, Cork Smart Gateway and Community groups.

2.16

Source funding for the development for multi-agency activity camps for children and young people.

Cork City Council, CETB, HSE, Community Groups, Cork Sports Partnership and other.

2.17

Advance and support the development and well-being of people with disabilities through participation in creative arts and providing access to art making.

Continue to establish new and innovative ways of working with people with disabilities, by working with local and national partners.

Cork City Council, HSE, Community Groups, Cork Smart Gateway and other stakeholders.

2.18

Work with local partners in developing a network of arts and disability practitioners. 

Cork City Council, HSE, Community Groups and other stakeholders.

2.19