Workshops - CHEX Conference 2024

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Workshop A: Creating Hope Together with Communities
Penumbra & COSLA 

The Creating Hope Together Strategy sets out a visions to reduce deaths by suicide whilst tackling the inequalities which contribute to increase risk of suicide. Communities and community led health organisations have a key role in supporting this vision.

This workshop will provide an opportunity to hear from Isobel Murray from Penumbra and Haylis Smith from COSLA about the work currently being delivered through the action plan including, learning opportunities, peer support and Time, Space, Compassion. It will also be an opportunity for you to influence and explore what this could mean for communities, and community-led health organisations. 

Workshop B: 24 years and counting: Yipworld’s support for young people and families in East Ayrshire 
Yipworld

CHEX network member Yipworld in East Ayrshire is recognised as an innovative and creative model of youth provision providing a wide range of formal and informal activities that promote the social, emotional, personal and educational development of children, young people and their families. An example of their recent work is ‘The Living Room’, a purpose built space for work with families and young people experiencing a range of challenges such as loneliness, isolation and hardship, anxiety and depression.

In this workshop, Janice and Robbie from Yipworld will highlight some of the initiatives and ways of working Yipworld has delivered over the past 24 years, providing a positive insight to running a social enterprise/charity/youth initiative. 

Workshop C: Community led health in collaboration - Together we can make a difference
Maud Village Trust & NHS Grampian 

In this workshop we will look at how more effective partnership working between community organisations and the public sector may be the key to better success in impacting on the health & wellbeing of our communities.

Jill Smith from NHS Grampian Public Health and Victoria Brown from Maud Village Trust will share their experiences of how this works in practise and the success they have achieved in developing and delivering community led health initiatives together.

Workshop D: “Vicarious Trauma? Burnout? Nah, it’s just every day in here…” 
NHS Lanarkshire 

Morning only

This workshop considers all aspects of psychological trauma, focussing on its impact on us, the helpers. 

Whether paid or unpaid, the burden of listening to, and attempting to support and empower others in distress is a high one. The current economic crisis and widening inequalities gap means that we work with an increasing number of people experiencing the trauma of financial poverty and its consequences. 

Come along and learn more about trauma and its impact, potential sources of learning and support for us and those around us, in an effort to become more trauma-informed in how we are with others, and how we are with ourselves. 

This workshop will be created and delivered by Fiona Douglas, a HIIC Tutor and NHS Lanarkshire Trainer who has worked in this field for more than 18 years. It is underpinned by the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Trauma Training Framework and its accompanying materials.

Workshop E: Youth participation and the power to make change - How HIIC makes a difference
Castlemilk Youth Complex 

Afternoon only

As we see inequalities continue to grow and our communities and workers face the rising cost of this. It is now more than ever that we need resources like Health Issues in the Community that help our communities see that these inequalities are not accidental and understand that things can be different and challenged.  

Come along and find out how Health Issues in the Community course can help your community. We will focus on young people but it will be transferable to all communities and settings. 

We will try out some HIIC exercises as well as look at the impact of HIIC, and the changes and challenges that it can bring.  This Workshop will be run by Kirsty Chapman from Castlemilk Youth Complex who has many years of delivering HIIC to young people.