Training

Training programme April 2010 to March 2011

The Health Promotion Service provides a broad range of training, The training offered is based on needs assessment. If those needs are not met by the training offered, please contact 01209 313419.

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Eatsome
Mental Health
Community Development
How to Choose Health
Sexual Health
Workplace Health

Eatsome

Level II Award in Healthier Food and Special Diets

Aim:     To provide knowledge and understanding of the benefits of healthy eating and how to cater for special diets

Objectives: To understand:

• The relationship between a balanced diet and good health
• The principles behind a balanced diet
• How to preserve the highest nutritional value of food
• Government policies and guidelines on healthier eating
• The different types of special diet
• Preparation, cooking and serving practices
• The role of the dietician

Brief Description:
Poor diet continues to hit the headlines as concern grows over obesity. However, diet-related ill health affects people of all ages in many different ways, ranging from high blood pressure to certain types of cancer. This is a level 2 qualification which provides an understanding of the nutritional principles behind preparing balanced diets for people of all ages, health and social circumstances, and dietary preference. This course includes a 45 minute multiple choice examination and certification.

Target Group: Anyone who plans recipes and menus, and orders and prepares food will benefit from this award – whether they are working in schools, elsewhere in the public sector, hospitality and leisure, health and community care or retail food outlets. It will also be helpful for people working in the food manufacturing industry and for those working in the community.

Trainer (s): Sophia Aston, Mary Dawe,
Venue (s): The Health Promotion Service, Kernow Building, Wilson Way.
Date (s): 13th May or 5th November 2010
Time: 9.00-5.00
Cost: £35 (includes lunch and examination paper)
Booking: 01209 313419

Eatsome "Get Cooking"
Promoting healthy eating through practical and realistic sessions

This two-day course is for both those working with community or voluntary groups and community members. The course is designed to assist those running or planning to run cooking sessions with their groups in the theory and practicalities of running a successful and healthy cookery club.

The course aims to:

1. Look at the key healthy eating messages and how to pass these on to your client group
2. Discuss the role and responsibilities of a cookery club leader
3. Explore useful resources
4. Offer a practical session in cooking run by the participants
5. Offer Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering (formerly Foundation Food Hygiene Certificate) 

TIME:   09.30-16.30

COST: £30 (£20 for day one and £10 for day two)  – to contribute towards the cost of lunch, a resource pack  and the exam paper - if your organisation is not able to pay, please contact us to discuss this further.

Course Directors: Sophia Aston, Mary Dawe, Amy Bromfield and Margaret Knight.

To book your place, please call the training department on 01209 313 419.

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Mental Health

ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skill Training)
Managing Anxiety
Managing Depression
Mental Health Awareness
Mindfulness Taster Day
Managing Work-related Stress
Understanding the relationship between substance misuse & mental health (implications for practice)
Promoting well being through activity

ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)

Aim:
To help reduce the number of deaths by suicide in C&IOS by providing Suicide First Aid skills to anyone who may come into contact with a person at risk. ASIST gives an introduction to the most widely used Suicide Intervention Model in the world, a model which is applicable in all situations requiring help.

Objectives:
To equip you – the caregiver- with the skills necessary to help a person at risk of suicide stay safe and seek further help.

Brief Description:
By the end of the 2 day course you will be able to:

1. Recognise that caregivers/healthcare workers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide
2. Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner
3. Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them
4. Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide
5. List the types of resources available to a person at risk of suicide,

including themselves

6. Make a commitment to improving community resources; and
7. Recognise that suicide prevention is broader than suicide first aid and includes life promotion and self-care for caregivers/healthcare workers.

Target Groups:

• Natural helpers and advisers
• Emergency service staff
• Counsellors, teachers and ministers
• Mental health practitioners
• Workers in health, welfare or justice
• Community volunteers
• People concerned about family, friends

Trainer (s): Karen Oldham, Phil Collier, Pat Ashwood, Michelle Ryan

Dates & Venues:
2010
April 29th & 30th  – Royal Showground Pavillion, Wadebridge
May 20th & 21st – Falmouth Hotel, Falmouth
June 24th & 25th – St Mary’s Hall Hotel, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly
July 22nd-23rd  –  Royal Showground Pavillion, Wadebridge
September 23rd & 24th  – Trevillis House, Liskeard
October 21st & 22nd - Royal Showground Pavillion, Wadebridge
November 25th & 26th – Royal Showground Pavillion, Wadebridge
2011
January 27th & 28th – YMCA, Redruth
February 24th & 25th – TBC
March 24th & 25th – TBC

Time: 8.45am – 5pm
Cost: FREE

Key Documents:
Forsight Report
New Horizons
CIOS Suicide Prevention Strategy

Managing Anxiety

Brief Description:
An introduction to anxiety including the causes, signs, symptoms, risk factors, screening/ diagnosis and treatment.
Trainer (s): David Angilley and Brian Smith
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 5th October 2010
Time: 9.30 – 16.00
Cost: £22.50

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 Managing Depression

Brief Description:
 Designed to develop your understanding of this serious condition, signs, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment are all covered.

Trainer (s): David Angilley and Brian Smith
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 9th November 2010
Time: 9.30 – 16.00
Cost: £22.50

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Mental Health Awareness

Brief Description:
What is Mental Health? What is Mental Illness? This course seeks to provide initial answers to there questions.

Trainer (s): Davis Angilley and Brian Smith
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 21st September 2010
Time: 9.30 – 16.00
Cost: £22.50

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 Mindfulness Taster Day

Aim: 
To provide practice and background information on the clinical and social applications of mindfulness for practitioners

Objectives:
To help people change the way they think, feel and act.

Brief Description:
Mindfulness helps people to break free from a downward spiral of negative thought and action, and make positive choices that support their wellbeing.
Mindfulness can help with recurrent depression, anxiety disorders and addictive behaviour – and other mental and physical problems including stress and chronic pain.  Anyone can learn Mindfulness. It’s simple, you can practice it anywhere and its effects can be life changing.

Target Group: For practitioners in health, residential and social settings who are interested in learning more about the approach.

Trainer (s): Paula Fairweather, Jim Lawrence, Jan Llewllyn & Sarah Hudson
Venue (s):  TBC
Date (s): Thursday 15th July or Thursday 11th Nov. 2010
Time:  9.15am – 16.30
Cost: £22.50

Key Documents: 

• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) now recommends Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) as a treatment for people suffering from recurrent depression.
• Dr Jonty Heaversedge is supporting ‘Be Mindful’ – a campaign by the Mental Health Foundation to raise awareness of the benefits of Mindfulness for overcoming depression.
• Mental Health Promotion Strategy C&IOS
• New Horizons
• The Foresight Report

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Managing Work-related Stress

Aim:
To help participants to more successfully recognise and manage work-related stress

Brief Description:
One in five people experience workplace stress, with half a million people nationally reporting they have fallen ill as a result. This course will help you to get to grips with work-based stress, by helping you to understand where it comes from, what it can do to you and what you can do about it. Over the day you will learn about the causes of stress, including job content and the working environment. You will understand the difference between positive and negative work stress and identify your reactions to work stress. You will learn ways to more effectively manage work-based stress, including developing a personal action plan.

Trainer (s): Brain Smith
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 2nd December 2010
Time: 9.30 – 16.00
Cost: £22.50

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Understanding the relationship between substance misuse & mental health (implications for practice)

Aim:
Promoting preventative practice with substance use and mental health issues

Objectives:

• Raise understanding of the links between substance use and mental health.    
• Consider opportunities for prevention, early intervention and support
• Address practice issues for appropriate roles and responsibilities

           
Brief Description:
This training is aimed at enabling you to work more confidently, appropriately and effectively with the combined issues of substances and mental health.  The starting point of the session is focused on the individuals you work with, their needs and strengths. You will have the opportunity to consider your own practice and what can further enhance your work in this often overlooked area of experience.

Target Group:
Any staff engaged with individuals or families where there is vulnerability to or presentation of the dual issues of substance use and mental health problems.

Trainer (s):  Wendy McDonald
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Thursday Oct 14, 2010
Time: 9.30am – 4pm
Cost: £22.50

Key Documents:
Mental Health Promotion Strategy for C&IOS

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Promoting well being through activity

Aim:
To examine the connection between how individuals occupy their time and their health and wellbeing;
Seeks to raise the profile of viewing client occupational needs as vital to good health outcomes.

Objectives:
Engaging in meaningful occupations and activities helps us to feel confident about our lives. When we are engaged in meaningful and purposeful activities it helps us to feel in control and helps to take away the frustrations, boredom and monotony that exist when we are engaged in unsatisfying tasks.
The day will be full of opportunities to understand in an enjoyable way how important it is to peoples’ sense of wellbeing

Trainer (s); David Angilley and Brian Smith
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 11th January 2011
Time: 9.30 – 16.00
Cost: £22.50

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Community Development

Funding for Community Projects
Creative Ways to Evaluate
Laughter Workshop
How To Write a Good Business Plan
Royal Institute of Public Health

Funding for Community Projects

Aim:
To highlight priorities and criteria of funding avaiabke for community and voluntary groups

Brief Description:
 Are you involved in a community or coluntary group with a fabulous idea that needs funding to make it happen? Then this workshop will provide you with the ideas for funding generic community projects.

Target Group: Community and volunteer groups
Trainer (s): Alex Ollivier and Di Warren
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 18th May 2010
Time: 9.30 – 12.30
Cost: FREE

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Creative Ways to Evaluate

Aim:
To help you feel comfortable and understand the main issues around monitoring and evaluating by using creative approaches to encourage user involvement. Believe it or not, it can be fun.

Objective:
To understand the importance of monitoring and evaluating and what it can do for your project.
To understand qualitative and quantitative methods.
To "take away" creative tools of monitoring and evaluation.

Brief Description:
This half day workshop will allay your fears of monitoring and evaluating and will encourage you to go away excited about using these new tools.

Target Groups:
Community and voluntary groups.

Target Group: Community and volentary groups
Trainer (s): Alex Ollivier and Di Warren
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s):Thursday 1st July 2010
Time: 9.30 – 12.30
Cost: FREE

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Laughter Workshop
    
We all know that laughter makes us feel good, but did you know that it really does do your health good and there is research to prove it?

The training will cover understanding how laughter can improve your health:

• Learn "LAUGHTER YOGA" techniques used by laughter clubs international
• Learn the latest international research results on the laughter/health links
• Learn to use laughter to boost your energy
• Discover the healing power of laughter
• Learn to use laughter as a stress-busting tool
• Learn to use laughter to stimulate your natural creativity

Target group
To anyone who wants to laugh and justify laughing more!

Trainer (s): Alex Ollivier and Di Warren
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 14th September 2010
Time: 9.30 – 12.20
Cost: FREE

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How To Write A Good Business Plan

Now, writing a business plan can sound scary, dull and uninteresting. We will, as far as possible, make it fun to:

• Understand the basic principles
• Why do you need a business plan
• Exactly what is a business plan
• What can a business plan do for us
• What do I need to include
• What I need to leave out
• How can I make my business plan "leap out" at funders
• Using the same principles to write a funding application

Target Group:
Anyone who is looking to develop their project and / or need to write a funding application.

Trainer (s): Alex Ollivier and Di Warren
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Tuesday 2nd November 2010
Time: 9.30 – 12.30
Cost: FREE

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Royal Institute of Public Health
Level II Understanding Health Improvement

Aim:
This unique award – supported by the Department of Health – equips people to motivate and support individuals to adopt a healthier lifestyle, and is open to all as no pre-course entry requirement is necessary.
The Award provides an introduction to the fundamentals of health and wellbeing, of the barriers to making a change of lifestyle and how to help people make changes to improve their health.
The aim of this award is to equip candidates with a knowledge and understanding of the principles of promoting health and wellbeing and of how to direct individuals towards further practical support in their efforts to attain a healthier lifestyle.

Objectives:
Candidates will know and understand:

• The importance and benefits to public health of promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace and community settings.
• The factors that facilitate and create barriers to health improvement.
• The principles of behaviour change and maintenance and of how to apply them in helping people to make changes.
• The responsibilities associated with handling confidential and sensitive information.
• Methods that may be used to evaluate a programme to promote healthier lifestyles.

Brief Description:
Healthcare is changing. The emphasis is shifting from just treating illness, to promoting good health and individuals taking responsibility for their own health and wellbeing – whether it be quitting smoking, doing more exercise, losing weight, drinking alcohol wisely or eating five pieces of fruit a day.
The RIPH developed the Understanding Health Improvement qualification in direct response to the government’s Choosing Health: Making healthy choices and tackling health inequalities agendas.
The Understanding Health Improvement qualification is a two day training course with a 45 minute multiple choice assessment (exam).
Employers may wish to use this award as part of core staff and management training, to which further training specific to workplace needs can be added.
This Level 2 qualification is a stepping stone to the Level 3 City & Guilds Health Trainer certificate, or ideal as a taster/introduction for those considering a health improvement role.
PCTs around the country are delivering this qualification to health visitors, district nurses, health trainer and health improvement volunteers, gym and studio instructors, patient transport staff and librarians. It is also suitable for GP/surgery nurses and health care assistants, nurses working with healthy workforces or prisoners, as well as pharmacy, optician and dental staff.

Target Group:
It is suitable for organisations of all types and sizes in the private, public, not-for-profit and voluntary sectors and:

• supports the health and wellbeing of staff/employees, with all the associated business benefits
• enhances work in the community e.g. corporate responsibility initiatives
• provides “added-value” customer service for front-line staff involved with ‘health promotion’ directly or indirectly

Trainer (s): Alex Ollivier and Di Warren
Venue (s): Health Promotion Service
Date (s): Monday 28th & Tuesday 29th June 2010
              Monday 11th & 12th October 2010
              Monday 17th & 18th January 2011
Time:  1000- 1600 each day

Cost: £89 per candidate, this includes the exam costs. There will be some places free on each course for the community and voluntary sectors and those who are unemployed.

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How to Choose Health

Brief Intervention Training
Weight Matters - "Shape Up" Groups

Brief Intervention Training

Healthy Lifestyle Brief Intervention Training

Aims
To provide an opportunity for participants to understand the key health
messages and the process required to support individuals in making lifestyle
changes around healthy eating, smoking, weight management and physical activity.

Brief Description         
More than 50% of premature deaths in western countries are attributable to
lifestyle.  There is a great need therefore for individuals to have the
opportunity to consider the possible impact of their behaviour and change
their health related habits.
A ‘brief intervention’ involves opportunistic advice, discussion, negotiation or encouragement in supporting individuals in making these changes and can be used by anyone working with adults on a one to one basis alongside their everyday work
Key Objectives:

• Understand the model of Behaviour Change and the need for a behavioural approach to encourage lifestyle changes
• Feel confident about raising the issue and supporting people to change their health behaviours, when you only have a few minutes to spare.

Target Group
Those working on a one to one basis with the opportunity to support their client to change their health related habits

Trainer
Sally Hayes

Venue
Brief Intervention training will be running throughout the year at various venues across the county. If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive future training dates please email Emma baker at emma.baker@ciospct.cornwall.nhs.uk

Cost Free

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Weight Matters - "Shape Up"

Aim:     To provide information and resources to help you support adult clients who want to manage their weight more effectively.  We will be using the Shape Up Weight Concern Programme which can be used for individuals or as a 8 week group intervention.

We will work through the Shape Up Manuals taking the opportunity to try out some of the activities recommended as a group and discuss how they can be put into practice in our workplaces.

Brief Description: This half day will provide you will ideas about how to help people recognise their motivation for changing and ways of promoting a balanced diet.  There will be information on providing getting more active and recognising barriers and blocks to progress. 

Target Group: Any one who is working with adults who want to manage their weight more effectively or would like to offer group support.

If your organisation is interested in supporting people to manage their weight and if there are 6 or more people who would like to attend this training please contact Mary Williamson; 01209 313419.

Trainer (s): Mary Williamson
Venue (s): To be arranged
Date (s):     To be arranged
Time:        To be arranged
Cost:         FREE

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Sexual Health

HIV Awareness

Aim:

• To raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and related issues
• To enable participants to explore how attitudes and perception of HIV affect society & individuals

Objectives:

• Describe what HIV & AIDS is and the difference between them
• Explain how HIV is and isn’t transmitted
• Understand current epidemiology
• Dispel the myths and fear surrounding HIV
• Understand current treatment options
• Discuss social implications of living with HIV

Brief Description:
In the past 27 years since the first AIDS-related deaths hit the headlines, much has changed within the HIV/AIDS field. But did you know there are now more people living with HIV than ever before, and it’s now the fastest growing long term health condition in the UK? Our course aims to inform attendees of how things have changed in that time, and what implications that has for someone with HIV, and explore we can all do to be better informed around HIV issues.

Target Group:
This is a non-clinical course, aimed at those with a limited knowledge of HIV who would like to know more. The course is open to all from healthcare, social care & statutory/voluntary services background.

Trainer (s): Al Green
Venue (s): Training Room, Health Promotion
Date (s):  Thursday 29th July
                 Thursday 4th November
Time: 0930 - 1600

Cost: Free

Key Documents:
“The National Strategy for Sexual Health & HIV” – Department of Health

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LGB (Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual) Awareness

Aim:

• To raise awareness of the needs of  LGB (Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual) people, particularly when accessing healthcare.
• Understand some of the barriers LGB people face when accessing healthcare.

Objectives:

• Understand current UK legislation around sexual orientation, and how this affects services.
• To understand how to tailor existing services to be more inclusive towards LGB people.

Brief Description:
Healthcare and other professionals commonly assume that LGB people’s health needs are the same as those of heterosexual people, unless their needs are related to sexual health. LGB people do however, have unique healthcare concerns. Our course will look at those concerns, and how we as a provider can improve our practise (often in very simple but effective ways) to meet those needs and concerns.

Target Group: Service managers
Trainer (s): Al Green
Venue (s): Training room – Health promotion
Date (s): Thursday 3rd June
Thursday 2nd September
Time: 0930 - 1600
Cost: Free

Key Documents:
“Reducing Health Inequalities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people” – Department Of Health

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Invitation to Sexual Health Training

Working with Young People with Learning Disabilities in a Sexual Health context

Monday 18 October 2010
9.30am for 10.00am start to 3.00pm

Further details (click here)

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Workplace Health

Aim:
To provide training courses on a variety of topics based on improving the health of employees.

Brief Description:
A variety of courses offered dependent on the needs of individual businesses.  The courses may be delivered within workplaces and cover a variety of different health topics.
For example:  Stress in the Workplace & Alcohol & Drugs in the Workplace.

Target Group: Employers, Employee’s, Managers
Trainer:  Rachel Faulkner, Workplace Health Coordinator

If your workplace is interested in looking at the health and wellbeing of their staff and have some training needs please contact Rachel Faulkner, Workplace Health Coordinator on 01209 313419

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Health Promotion Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
Kernow Building, Wilson Way, Redruth, TR15 3QE
Tel: 01209 313419 Fax: 01209 314491

Email: info@healthpromcornwall.org