The Community Health Educators Project
Jon Hindley is a co-ordinator for the Community Health Educators (CHEs) programme, which is part of the Healthy Living Network, Leeds. Jon provided a brief retrospective of the programme including origin, history and philosophy. The nature of the project was explained along with a description of its’ two main components: the training of community members, and CHEs sharing simple healthy living activities and messages with their peers. The presentation covered issues such as challenges facing the project in relation to its nature and set up, what worked well in terms of member retention, creation of the “CHEs family”, training, employability, community coverage and capacity building.  The presentation concluded with a brief summing up of the project, what has not worked well and an explanation of the projects’ current and future plans.

Further information can be found here. Click here to view the CHEs presentation.

Jane South (PI)

Anne-Marie Bagnall

Tim Bickerstaffe

Peter Branney

Dr Mima Cattan

Mark Gamsu

Marianne Kennedy

Karina Kinsella

Diane Lowcock

Dr Angela Meah

Martin Purcell

Sue Rooke

Dr Pinki Sahota

Jan Smithies

Judy White