Community Health Champions

This programme will help to develop your knowledge of key Health Improvement topics which includes: 

A 2-hour introductory session covering:

• What is a Community Health Champion?
• Making Every Contact Count. 

Six 1-hour bitesize sessions delivered weekly for 3 consecutive weeks covering

• Ageing Well
• Mental Health Awareness
• Sexual Health Basic Awareness
• Basic Substance Use Awareness
• Tobacco Control & Nicotine Vaping Products
• Overweight & Obesity.

The training offers practical tools and skills to enable you to pass on key health and wellbeing messages to clients, colleagues, friends and family and signpost people into services that will help them live a healthier lifestyle. 

In turn, we will: 

• Invite you to quarterly online meetings to connect with other champions and share information, ideas and feedback.
• Send you a regular newsletter via email to keep you up to date with relevant updates, community events and more.
• Send you a monthly email about upcoming campaigns to help cascade messages across our communities. 
• Offer you the opportunity to gain a nationally recognised qualification: Level 2 Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH): Understanding Health Improvement.

If you would like to know more, please complete an expression of interest form here. 

Or please email integratedwellbeing@northumberland.gov.uk.

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