Our Air, My Lungs: Respiratory Health Ambassadors Training Programme aims to enable health visiting team members to become iHV Respiratory Health Ambassadors. Equipped with knowledge and understanding to become placed-based leaders in raising awareness of air pollution and its impact on health and chronic respiratory diseases in children under the age of 5 years.
The iHV has been supported by The Burdett Trust for Nursing to develop a programme of training for health visitors and skill mix teams to become iHV Respiratory Health Ambassadors.
The training was co-produced by parents and professionals to support practitioners in their roles as placed-based leaders in raising awareness of chronic respiratory disease in children under 5-years-old with colleagues and families.
- This co-production work highlighted that families wanted health visitors to have a basic understanding of their child’s respiratory health condition.
- Families wanted conversations with health visitors about air pollution – connecting them with trusted parent-friendly advice and resources.
- A survey of health visitors highlighted a gap in training to support them in their role.
- Health visitors wanted easy-to-understand evidence-based information and resources to support them in their conversations with families, and access to resources and training to support their continued professional development.
Ambassadors training
Ambassadors are distinct individuals with attributes of:
- A passion for the subject area
- An aptitude for teaching their colleagues (not necessarily a formal qualification but experience and confidence to teach groups)
- The support of their organisation to allow them to share resources and a short awareness session with their colleagues.
To enable health visiting team members to become iHV Respiratory Health Ambassadors. Equipped with knowledge and understanding to become placed-based leaders in raising awareness of air pollution and its impact on health and chronic respiratory diseases in children under the age of 5 years.
Specifically:
- pre-term chronic lung disease
- asthma
- cystic fibrosis
- To increase knowledge and understanding of air pollution and its impact on respiratory health
- To increase relevant knowledge and understanding of pre-term chronic lung disease, asthma and cystic fibrosis in children under the age of 5 years
- To support health visiting team members to become place-based leaders, with relevant tools and learning resources to:
- raise local awareness of respiratory health in children under the age of 5 years with families and colleagues
- continue professional development
Participants will be introduced resources including: Good Practice Points, Parent Tips, films, case studies, parent and child stories, along with collated research and literature to support a broader knowledge base and provide quality assured resources that families can be signposted to. Finally, there is a PowerPoint Awareness session Ambassadors can share with colleagues.
🏷️ Cost: £180 (iHV Member) / £200 (Non-member)
🕒 Duration: 4 hours
👥 Suitable for: Health visitors and skill mix
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