Engaging in Effective Community Advocacy Online Workshop

On Wednesday 1^st February, Voluntary Health Scotland (VHS) is hosting “Engaging in Effective Community Advocacy”, an online interactive workshop on community advocacy in public health and health inequalities.

Taking place via Teams, 10am – 12pm, the workshop will be led by Public Health Scotland (PHS) and aims to explore what engagement in advocacy means in a public health context, how this can mitigate health inequalities and what this means for attendees’ own role.

Attendees will be encouraged to consider a range of advocacy approaches to mitigating health inequalities for different kinds of communities. There will be a number of examples from third sector organisations, who will speak about their own use of community-based interventions to support people’s health and wellbeing.

Speakers include:

• Stuart Brown, Physical Activity Co-ordinator and Sophie Bridger, Policy and Campaigns Manager, Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
• Ese Johnson, Development Manager for Minority Ethnic Health, Waverley Care
• Elizabeth Rowlett, Partnership Integration Engagement Officer, Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise
• Claire Stevens, Chief Executive, VHS
• Moira Davies, Senior Learning and Development Officer, PHS

By the end of the session, attendees should have:

• an improved understanding of how advocacy can mitigate the impact of health inequalities
• more confidence about identifying and working with community and third sector advocates
• ideas for developing their own community advocacy role

To book your place, or for further information, please visit the VHS website.