Every drop-in centre in Frederikshavn Municipality, together with the residential facility Mariested and the local treatment centre, has been sports-certified by the Danish Workers’ Sports Association and Idræt for Sindet, a sports body for people living with mental illness. The certificate commits each place to at least three movement activities a week.
In practice that is a fixed walk after a meal, cycling, curling, garden games and cognitive and physical exercises, adapted to what each person can join in. Twenty-five municipal employees and managers took the course. The certificate was handed over at the Frederikshavn drop-in centre on 17 August, with chair gymnastics on the programme. The municipality says the aim is to build a bridge to the town’s own sports clubs, and two more places follow this autumn.
So…:
Which good habit in your own place survives only if somebody remembers it?
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