MECC – Make Every Contact Count 1-Day Chat to Change Train the Trainer Course – Face to Face – Carer’s Link, Accrington

Free MECC Train the Trainer Chat to Change 1 Day Face to Face Course – Thurs 11th July – Carer’s Link, Accrington

Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle
information via brief or very brief behaviour change interventions, enabling individuals to engage in
conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations.
Colleagues who work across health and care within the NHS, local authority and voluntary sectors have
thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing.
MECC provides an opportunity to discuss health and wellbeing lifestyle pathways which can support and
enable behaviour change for key risk factors including smoking, alcohol, healthy eating, weight, physical
activity, hypertension and mental health.
Using your day to day contact with individuals as an opportunity to encourage and deliver key health
messages to improve their physical and emotional wellbeing, small changes can be made.
People cannot be forced to change, but by using opportunities for raising the issue of a healthy lifestyle in
a non- judgemental way, people’s awareness, confidence and motivation to make changes in their lives may occur
from a brief conversation.

Who is MECC TTT training aimed at?
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an approach to improving the health of the population that everyone can
use, it is not restricted to one person, specific profession or organisation. It is aimed at giving staff from a wide
range of organisations the skills they need to encourage individuals to make choices that will prevent illness and
improve their lifestyles and wellbeing

For Lancashire & S Cumbria organisations, MECC can provide staff with the leadership, environment, training
and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
For staff, MECC means having the competence and
confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages, to help to encourage people to change their behaviour,
directing them to local services that can support them.
July – Dec 2024 – MECC 1-Day TTT Course Dates
Arrival 09.15, start 09.30, finish 4.30pm
20 x places available per TTT course
Face to Face
MECC TTT FLYER – JULY – DEC 2024
Course Requirements:
The MECC 1 Day is a Chat to Change ‘Train the Trainer
course’.
 We recommend wherever possible that all
participants try to complete a MECC online elearning session in advance of attending the
MECC face to face course (This link is sent out as
part of your course info’s)
 Complete a pre-course and post-course selfevaluation. This is a link sent out to all
participants and takes no longer than 4 minutes
to complete for each evaluation. (This link is sent
out as part of your course info’s and after your
course has been completed)
 Attend any Train the Trainer modules that are
advertised by ourselves.
 Once your 1 day TTT training is complete we ask
you to deliver a minimum of x 6 MECC sessions
per year, in order to embed the MECC approach
within your own organisation/community or
third-sector.
This could be either a 7 minute brief
intervention, a 1 hour or a 3 hour MECC session.
These sessions can be delivered in a variety of
ways such as at team meetings, 1:1 discussions
with colleagues, group chat etc.
 Attend a half day follow-up workshop (approx. 6
months post-training- where possible)
 Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of the
programme on request including submitting
numbers and dates of any MECC training you
have delivered to the workforce/ community.
This would be requested every 3-6 months and
takes no longer than a few minutes to complete.
Course Registration:
To apply for a place on the 1-day MECC Train the Trainer
course please fill out the attached application form in full MECC TTT Chat to Change 1-Day Training Application Form – July – Dec 2024
and send to:
[email protected]