Marshada and Holly are the Health Development Officers for the PYC Service with backgrounds in community development and public health. They deliver training around mental health, behaviour change, restorative practice, and safeguarding awareness. They also support the service with different projects that focus on health & wellbeing and link in with local and national wellbeing campaigns to support their delivery.
Kaz supports the PYC service from a substance misuse perspective by delivering information sessions to young people about drugs and alcohol. As part of the Drug & Alcohol Support Service (DASS), Kaz also provides one-to-one intervention sessions to young people, through our youth clubs and local schools. The DASS service also trains our PYC staff in identifying substance misuse issues so they are ready to support anyone who may be experiencing issues with drugs or alcohol.
Lin supports the PYC staff to deliver healthy food and growing initiatives to benefit the children, young people, and families accessing our service. From cultural cooking sessions to learning about sowing seeds at home, Lin is here to empower people to eat more healthily and encourage local communities to think more sustainably about food.
Links to growing & cooking videos coming soon so watch this space…
Our Holiday Food & Fun programme aims to improve family nutrition and wellbeing, whilst reducing some of the financial pressure and emotional strain on people. We provide access to food and healthy eating information across all the PYC sites, particularly during the school holidays when we all need that bit of extra energy!
This is all done through using different surplus foods that are available and educating families to eat well and live longer, happier lives.
We understand how important mental wellbeing is now more than ever! We ensure the PYC workforce is trained in Mental Health First Aid in order to support their local communities to stay well emotionally as well as physically.
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The Health Development Team work Monday to Friday from 8am – 5pm.
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