SO Europe Eurasia Foundation is a not for profit organization that provides year-round public health services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities through grass roots sports training and competition, multi-disciplinary health screening and intervention programs, promoting public health and early childhood development in all 28 EUan Union Member States, serving over 450,000 participating athletes. SO Europe Eurasia Foundation (SOEEF)supports public health activities operating from offices in Dublin, Brussels and Warsaw, and supports the presence of national Special Olympics offices in all 28 Member States, SO cooperate and assist local services, agencies and organisations dedicated to the promotion of physical fitness and mental well being of people with intellectual disabilities and develops activities and programmes across EU and across borders that enables Special Olympics athletes to take a fuller and more active role in their community and society in general.
SOEE plays an active role in supporting the development of 28 National Special Olympics Programmes in EU- assisting them to become better known, better funded and more successful in both expanding and improving physical and mental health through sports opportunities and other initiatives which include
The Healthy Athletes program - multidisciplinary public health screening and intervention program for all participating Special Olympics athletes. Healthy Athletes is designed to improve the athlete`s ability to train and compete, as well as offer positive health outcomes for their daily lives. It has become one of the world`s leaders in offering specialized health training courses on the health status of persons with intellectual disabilities, as well as how to treat this often marginalized population. Healthy Athletes consists of seven disciplinary screening programs, including: vision care, oral health, hearing care, physical therapy, standard sports physicals, podiatric medicine, and nutrition counseling. Special Olympics has the potential to provide a number of health interventions to provide sustained positive impact.
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The objective of JAMIE is to have by the end of 2013 in the majority of MSs a common hospital based surveillance injury system in operation enabling EC and MSs to monitor injury risks. JAMIE will:
- refine the current methodology for collecting hospital based injury data with a view to allow data collection also in less resourced settings and to ensure that the quality of data will meet the EuroStat-quality requirements; and
- incorporate in 26 out of the eligible countries (EU31) into the European IDB monitoring system and into the IDB-exchange mechanism.

The Joint Action will make available national capacities and resources for applying a pro-active approach to Member States, by offering assistance: such as standardized trainings for national data administrators, twinning programmes, on-site consultations and country specific coaching for countries which still have to start or restart a system, continuous supervision, and joint monitoring actions levels of implementation in each MS.

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This project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) in all countries within Europe. It aims to do this by developing guidance on best practice for the care of children with CP for use by both health professionals and lay carers (e.g. parents), and by improvements in the collection, recording, description and use of clinical and epidemiological data.
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