Community Health Champions Outreach Service
VANEL’s Community Health Champions (CHC) will be visiting a number of locations across North East Lincolnshire over the coming months.
The programme, which is funded by North East Lincolnshire Lifestyle Services and The Morrisons Foundation, aims to increase awareness of the health and wellbeing interventions that are available locally. It is hoped that by providing members of the public with this information, they will be encouraged to visit their pharmacist, GP or other health practitioner, before unnecessarily venturing to their local a&e department. Equally, the programme aims to motivate people to take responsibility for their health and wellbeing, and reduce the number of people developing long term chronic illnesses which are preventable.
Community Health Champion Project Coordinator, Vickie Ehret has secured a regular spot at Morrisons in Laceby, and will be holding a CHC stall. Here, members of the public can receive free information on, and be signposted to, organisations that can offer them support with specific health related matters. For example, if a member of the public was to express that they would like to find out more about diabetes, or join a support group, the Community Health Champion’s programme would provide them with the contact details of an organisation which provides such a service locally. You will not be asked to provide any personal information or contact details for using the Community Health Champions service.
The dates and locations of upcoming Community Health Champions stalls around North East Lincolnshire can be found on the VANEL calendar.
For more information about the Community Health Champions programme, or to apply to become a Community Health Champion volunteer, please contact CHC project coordinator Vickie Ehret. Email Vickie@vanel.org.uk
Tel: (01472) 231 123
Facebook: @nelhealthchampions