Learn how to have impactful conversations with the communities you work with, providing advice and brief interventions on health and wellbeing
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is a practical tool designed to turn everyday conversations into meaningful discussions about health and wellbeing. Widely accepted across the UK, MECC aims to improve population health by empowering staff and volunteers with the skills to guide individuals towards healthier choices by using brief interventions, sharing key health messages, and signposting individuals to appropriate support services.
Our Motivational Interviewing course introduces key principles and behaviour change tools to equip frontline staff with the skills to support individuals in addressing unhealthy behaviours. This workforce training successfully improves client outcomes through supporting staff to deliver effective behaviour change interventions.
Using brief intervention and motivational interviewing techniques to effectively communicate with people about vaccinations and immunisations. Participants learn to understand someone’s reasons for not taking a vaccine and how to employ conversational techniques that could motivate them to engage with vaccination programmes.
Using marketing tactics to create social value through delivering successful behaviour change and social marketing projects
An overview of the basic principles of social marketing, how it can inspire behaviour change, the process of developing and delivering initiatives using this approach.
A practical course designed for practitioners responsible for initiating, developing and implementing behaviour change projects.
A course for staff that are looking to track the impact of their interventions, participants are equipped with a rounded understanding of the importance and purpose of evaluation, introducing them to practical tools and resources.