Training Opportunities – Sign Up Now! 

As mentioned above, the Regional Support Network launched it’s training programme at our event last week, and the first sessions are fast approaching. 

You can read more about the training programme, including venue information and a description of each session, by downloading the programme from www.targetwellbeing.org.uk 

We are currently taking bookings for the following sessions:

1) New Starters & Trouble-shooting
With Target: Wellbeing Regional Support Network
10.30 – 15.00, Thursday 28th August 2008
At Groundwork Northwest Office, Manchester 

2) New Starters Session Only
With Target: Wellbeing Regional Support Network
10.30 – 12.30, Thursday 28th August 2008
At Groundwork Northwest Office, Manchester

3) Trouble-shooting Session Only
With Target: Wellbeing Regional Support Network
13.00 – 15.00, Thursday 28th August 2008
At Groundwork Northwest Office, Manchester

4) Evaluation (Inc. lunch)
With the North West Public Health Observatory
10.00 – 15.00, Tuesday 9th September 2008
At Oldham Voluntary Action, Oldham 

5) Evaluation (Inc. lunch)
With the North West Public Health Observatory
10.00 – 15.00, Thursday 11th September 2008
Venue TBC, Preston

6) Evaluation (Inc. lunch)
With the North West Public Health Observatory
10.00 – 15.00, Monday 15th September 2008
At Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool

7) New Starters & Trouble-shooting
With Target: Wellbeing Regional Support Network
10.30 – 15.00, Thursday 25th September 2008
At Groundwork Northwest Office, Manchester

8) New Starters Session Only
With Target: Wellbeing Regional Support Network
10.30 – 12.30, Thursday 25th September 2008, at Groundwork Northwest Office, Manchester

9) Trouble-shooting Session Only
With Target: Wellbeing Regional Support Network
13.00 – 15.00, Thursday 25th September 2008, at Groundwork Northwest Office, Manchester

10) Wider Determinants of Health
10.30 –13.00, Friday 29th September 2008
At St Helens CVS, St Helens

To book simply follow this link and fill in the form
(once you have submitted the form you will receive an email confirmation of your booking). 

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Resources

- Counting Beneficiaries

Sue Bliss, the Programme Lead for Target: Wellbeing’s Ellesmere Port programme, had put together a really useful powerpoint presentation to help projects identify beneficiaries, complete with examples. Click here to read.

- The Empowerment White Paper, ‘Communities in Control: Real People, Real Power’, has now been published and can be found at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/communitiesincontrol

- The Strategic Health Authority has outlined plans to increase life expectancy by 11% for men and 16% for women by 2011. Read its report, ‘Healthier Horizons for the North West’, here: http://www.northwest.nhs.uk/projects/healthierhorizons/

- The ‘Health Inequalities: Progress and Next Steps’ report was launched on the 8th June. In this report the Government sets out its commitment to tackle health inequalities and help the most deprived communities. Read the report here.

- The new Local Authority Health Profiles have been published. The Health Profiles provide a snapshot of health for each local council in England, using key health indicators to enable comparison locally, regionally and nationally, as well as over time. You can find this information at www.healthprofiles.info

- The Department of Health has launched its social marketing and Public Health strategy ‘Ambitions for Health’, which is a strategic framework for maximising the potential of social marketing and health-related behaviour. It sets out plans to embed social marketing principles into health improvement programmes. Read it here.