Social Action for Health (SAfH) have been building a strong and vibrant network of local organisations in Waltham Forest who will be delivering activities and running community sessions to develop local peoples ability to take community action around their health and wellbeing. SAfH have been doing this in partnership with a range of local community groups. The network represents the multi cultural communities that make up Waltham Forest and have attended a 3 day training course. SAfH have also trained 23 local Community Health Champions to work on this Project.

The people’s Network is a project which houses the Mental Health Guides Project and Foresight project within it’s framework. The project’s long term aim is to provide a User led, User run organisation which will comment on the voluntary sector in Hackney. In order to do this the project needs to build the capacity of it’s members via action groups, workshops and connecting to the outside world so that members feel that they have a place in the real world, outside of the system. It is a new and dynamic approach which is learning as it progresses but it has us all very excited here at SAfH!

Working alongside local people to increase take up of breast, cervical and bowel cancer screening services, this project aims to reduce cancer mortality rate by early diagnosis of cancers.

• Trains local people in screening process and practices
• Supports local people to take up the screening offer
• Works with GP’s to increase uptake in cervical and breast screening
• Delivers awareness sessions to local people around screening processes

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