Activities

CHEX Team supports the network and partners by undertaking the following activities:

• supporting community health projects and initiatives to shape and influence health and social policies
• developing and running training based on the needs of community health organisations
• developing and promoting the 'Health Issues in the Community' training course
• developing and running a seminar programme on policy and practice in community development approaches to health improvement
• networking and collaborative working with health related networks
• contributing to the 'Healthy Communities: Meeting the Shared Challenge' national programme and developing resources generated by the programme
• establishing and maintaining a database of community health projects and initiatives in Scotland
• producing quarterly editions of  hard-copy newsletter, CHEX-POINT
• producing a fortnightly e-bulletin, CHEX-Point Snippets
• responding to daily information enquiries

(last updated 16 September 2009)