What We Do Classic Photos From HOM

The HOM Team contribute to the health improvement of men and boys (aged over 10) in the Bradford and Airedale District. The Team carry out direct work (eg health advice and services with clients) and indirect work (eg training and support with a range of professional staff) around the following areas with an emphasis on an holistic approach: 

• Health Checks and MOTs

• Obesity

• Exercise

• Smoking Cessation

• Alcohol and Drug Use

• Sexual health

• Mental health and emotional wellbeing

The Team consists of health professionals (qualified nurses and health promotion specialists) who   delivers health services within environments which are outside of traditional health settings and therefore less threatening and more comfortable to men and boys. These include schools, colleges, workplaces, pubs, barbershops, retail outlets, betting shops, sporting clubs and a range of other male oriented venues

Some Current HOM Projects (2009) 

Nick Davy

• Lads Room drop-ins – Bradford City Centre & Keighley Connexions
• Primary Schools – yr 6 – inc. puberty health eating, exercise steroids, breastfeeding
• Upper schools yr 7,8 & 9 – inc. puberty, contraception, STI's
• bullying & homophobia   - in upper schools and also with excluded lads
• primary pupil referral unit – puberty
• MOTs – Tyersal taxis
• Mens Health – Young Dads
• Homeless project
• Work with yr 9 boys (in partnership with Turnaround   - a Barnardos project)

           re: Child Sexual Exploitation & keeping safe.

Chris Bradley

• Engage with Travellers/Gypsy/Roma ethnic group
• Client home visits – to aid self care
• Windhill drop In – for young people

           (all health matters, sexual health, Chlamydia screening)

• TIC-TAC Oakbank – yr 8/9 & Secondary school age drop in
• African Caribbean male health
• PSHCE – Steeton primary school
• Erectile Dysfunction clinic
• CVD risk assessment

 

Andrew Harrison

• Condom distribution & sexual health – Eccleshill Health Centre
• Shipley Pupil Referral Unit – sexual health sessions (STI's, TSE, etc)
• Baildon weight loss group
• Primary school puberty sessions
• Salts Grammar health drop In
• Immanuel School – 1:1 with young men (behavioural /alcohol/relationship difficulties)
• Shipley Job Centre Plus – drop in for health advice, condoms, specific tests
• Café Candia – weekly drop in

 

Pete Westwood

• Cardiac Rehab Group BD21
• APAUSE BD8 – sexual health programme
• Tong School TIC TAC Drop In
• Yr 6 School Puberty sessions
• Male health/sexual health – yr 8 & 10 Thornton Grammar school
• TSE/Sexual Health BD22
• Smoking Cessation – to young people at The Lighthouse Group
• Afro-Caribbean Men's Health

 

Dennis Jones

• MOTs with those on Probation, specifically drug users aged 20-40 who offend – an initiative to be introduced alongside regular health screenings through the nurse and checks for drug use.

• TSE classes – enabling young men to begin to discuss their bodies & male medical symptoms
• Recruiting men for “Mental Health First Aid' training
• Training Teachers, tutors   & youth workers to provide ‘Sex & Relationship Education' in Secondary schools

(Full description of our work can be seen in the annual report we produced)