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Health Champions Programme - Ealing

Health Champions Programme - Ealing. Jane Darroch Public Health Specialist 0208 825 6121 DarrochJ@ealing.gov.uk. What are Health Champions ?. Lay people who include basic, key, health messages into daily encounters Provide sign-positing into key services Develop own knowledge and skills

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Health Champions Programme - Ealing

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  1. Health Champions Programme - Ealing Jane Darroch Public Health Specialist 0208 825 6121 DarrochJ@ealing.gov.uk

  2. What are Health Champions ? • Lay people who include basic, key, health messages into daily encounters • Provide sign-positing into key services • Develop own knowledge and skills • Evidence suggests Health Champions can improve health • Not new – many people do this naturally • A co-ordinated programme offers support, sustainabilityand consistency

  3. How to become a Health Champion • Attend 1 day accredited training • Training includes basic health-related information • Pass RSPH Level 1 training • Be able and keen to embed basic health advice into job/community/daily interactions • Attend (at least) 3 follow up support sessions

  4. Progress to date • Community safety team, Ealing Council trained – 14 health champions • Interest from other teams – Youth Offending, Adult Social Services • In Hounslow over 200 people trained from community and voluntary sector

  5. How can we develop a Health Champion programmes across Ealing? • Your ideas about Health Champions in Ealing

  6. More Information • Royal Society for Public Health website www.rsph.org.uk • South et al., (2010) Community Health Champions: Evidence Review (www.yhpho.org.uk/resource)

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