Make Every Contact Count (MECC) Training - Mental Health

Organiser: Voluntary Action Harrow

When

What

The Making Every Contact Count (MECC) approach encourages everyone to use the opportunities arising during their routine interactions with people, residents, patients, clients, beneficiaries, and service users, to have conversations about how they might make positive improvements to their health or well-being.

Part One - You'll learn or enhance your existing knowledge on:

• What is MECC
• Who's using MECC
• Why MECC
• MECC engagement models Ask, Assist, Act & COM B

Part Two - Mental health is a continuum which can change over time and in response to events:

• Overview of Mental Health
• Trauma-informed work
• 5 ways to Mental wellbeing
• Resources and information to aid conversation
• Links and access to support services to aid conversations

Who it’s aimed at? MECC is for anyone interacting with people to promote public health awareness.

Aim of the session: Make Every Contact Count (MECC) enables the delivery of consistent and concise health and wellbeing information and encourages individuals to engage in conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.

The fundamental idea underpinning the MECC approach is simple. It recognises that staff across health and care, local authority and voluntary sectors have thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing.

MECC is intended for anyone who has contact with people to “Make Every Contact Count” and develop public health knowledge.