GUEST POST - RSN "Targeting Health Outcomes" Training with MMU

Date of event: 9th Dec 2009

Organised by: Target:Wellbeing Regional Support Network and MMU

Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University

Reported by : Jane Harding, Age Concern Cheshire

This event was the 2nd in a series of 3 sessions. The 1st session introduced national and regional policies on healthy eating, physical activity and mental wellbeing.

There was a good mix of participants representing the voluntary and 3rd sector as well as a couple of Target Well:Being projects. It was really interesting to hear about other groups' work, and the problems they face. This session was all about promoting and improving health, and made me think about what I can do differently to try and achieve changes in behaviour in my client group. If you want to know why your clients aren't doing what you want them to - this session explains it all!

Also, if you don't know your twitter from your flickr, or your myspace from your blog, look out for the next Online Resources training session (another plug for Target:Wellbeing Regional Support Network training). I never thought I'd be blogging, but here I am!

[If you're interested in attending one of our free Targeting Health Outcomes training programmes get in touch with Rhiannon on 0161 237 3200 or at rhiannon.davies@groundwork.org.uk. There will be two more running starting in February]

Forthcoming Targeting Health Outcomes Training

Report by: Nancy Brown

Our projects improve health through lots of different activities and we want to give them the health knowledge to make the projects sustainable, so I am really excited about the new training that will be taking place over November - Febraury, which we designed with MMU's Health and Wellbeing Academy for our projects and other organisations.

I commissioned this course, and allocated a substaintial amount of our training budget to it, because there are no other course I know of which are sepcifically designed for third sector organisations to give them this knowledge and enable them to speak to health commissioners in their own language.

There are 3 sessions:
Session 1 focuses on how health affects people and what affects health.
Session 2 looks at how behaviour is changed to improve the health of service users.
Session 3 will cover pitching to funders and commissioners in their own language and what evidence will be needed to show the benefit of activities delivered.

For dates or to book e-mail rhiannon.davies@groundwork.org.uk

We'll also be looking for a guest blogger to tell us what they think here, so let us know if you're interested in writing a few posts.