About Chex (Community Health Exchange)
We promote and support community-led health - where local communities identify the issues that are important to them and organise to take collective action to address these issues and improve their health.
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We're just a day away from the #CHEX2020 Conference! We can't wait to see everyone at our celebration of 20 years of CHEX and community-led health orgs across the country!
Follow us on twitter CHEX_Org. We'll be tweeting all day tomorrow!
We were delighted to be involved in this new Evaluation Support Scotland resource which looks at how the third sector contributes to tackling health inequalities:
Read it here http://evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/r esources/510/
The latest news for community-led health is here! Read and subscribe to CHEX-Point Snippets:
https://mailchi.mp/97cfbead43ef/fyjeho4u2 e-3825717…
New!
As we mark 10 years of SCDC as an independent organisation, Elspeth Gracey shares some of her reflections of 10 years at CHEX - the Community Health Exchange.
Read our penultimate #TenFor10.
... https://www.scdc.org.uk/…/…/ten-for-t en-community-led-health
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Snippets is out this Thursday and we would love to hear from you.
If you any news you would like to share with 1400 readers from across Scotland send us a DM 🗨
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Does your organisation work in partnership with NHS boards in 🏴 to engage volunteers in NHS settings.
If so Voluntary Health Scotland want to hear from you. Your feedback will help inform future volunteer strategies within the NHS/voluntary sector in 🏴.
Survey closes on 21 Feb! https://www.research.net/r/PKL6RP5
The climate emergency is the most urgent issue facing humanity just now.
In this briefing, we make the links between community-led health and climate action.
http://www.chex.org.uk/…/where-action-c ommunity-led-health…/
Campaign launched to tackle the stigma around periods.
A new groundbreaking campaign has been launched to challenge the stigma around periods and encourage more people to talk openly about them 👏👏
https://www.gov.scot/news/lets-call-perio ds-periods/
Ten for 10: Taking a community development journey through HIIC
As we mark 10 years of SCDC as an independent organisation, Kate McHendry shares reflections on managing the Health Issues in the Community course.
"I must admit to being surprised at the strength and force of transformation that HIIC can have on people and their communities, and this is down to the skill, experience and commitment of our amazing tutors as well as the courage and determination of our participants.... "
Read it here 👇://www.scdc.org.uk/news/article/2019/ 12/12/ten-for-ten-hiic
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Join us for our annual conference celebrating community-led health and a chance to mark 20 years of CHEX! 🥳
We've got loads of great speakers and workshops lined up. 25th February, Glasgow. Register your interest: http://www.chex.org.uk/…/register-your- interest-chex-confe…/
The next CHEX-Point Snippets is out on Thursday! Got something you want shared with 1400 readers from across Scotland? Send us a DM 🗨
You can read the latest issue and subscribe here: http://www.chex.org.uk/snippets-e-bulleti n/
Our new briefing argues that #ClimateJustice should now take its place alongside social and economic justice in our work. And the new Communities Call for Climate Action is the perfect place to start.
Read more at http://www.chex.org.uk/…/where-action-c ommunity-led-health…/ #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
Are you struggling to make your social media more accessible? Look no further! Thanks to @InclusionScot for putting this fantastic guide together, we have found it extremely helpful. https://inclusionscotland.org/accessible- social-media-guide/
CHEX turns 20!
Mark your calendars 🗓️Our next conference will be on on Tues 25 Feb for a celebration of community-led health & a chance to mark 20 years of CHEX.
... We're already busy working on putting together an inspiring programme for you. Get involved➡️https://bit.ly/337D0DQ
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Last week we had the pleasure to see the live performance of a part 1 Health Issues in Community group from Dundee. And what a brilliant performance it was.
Discrimination was the hot topic & the Dundee group courageously told their stories of facing discrimination while also performing their interpretation of the well-known exercise ‘Living in Pregudica’ and renamed it 'Welcome to Discriminatia".
The play was powerful & allowed us and everyone in the room to see things fro...m a different perspective.
The beauty of HIIC! Learn more about HIIC here https://www.hiic.org.uk/
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Do you have the evidence to have influence? That's the starting point for this new resource, ‘Engaging with Evidence’ from the Knowledge Translation Network.
This guide introduces what is meant by communities engaging with evidence and why it is important http://www.chex.org.uk/…/do-you-have-ev idence-have-influen…/