Browsing Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories are a collection of case studies from 6 Altogether Better Projects. Each case study focuses on one Community Health Champion and details their personal journey as well as the positive ways they have impacted on the health of their community.
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Date posted: 07 January 2010
Christine Campey's motives for becoming a workplace community health champion were to understand possible ways of improving the mental health of workers in the construction industry and to expand her skill has a human re ...
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Date posted: 07 January 2010
A desire to give something back to his comunity prompted Waqas Khawaja Hameed to join Sheffield Community Health Champions.
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Date posted: 07 January 2010
Patrick Nolan joined Healthwise Hull after deciding to adopt a healthier lifestyle. A year later, he has become a committed community health champion and is about to make a fulfilling career change.
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Date posted: 07 January 2010
Mandy Hodgson had tried Tai Chi before, but it took a challenge from the Leading the Way to Active Lives project for her take her involvement with the traditional Chinese system of exercise and relation to the next level ...
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Date posted: 07 January 2010
Attending an Altogether Better course to help her cope while caring for a sick relative was the catalyst for Denise Dobson to confront issues that had been affecting her for years and to start to change her life around.
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Date posted: 07 January 2010
After taking an Altogether Better course in Mental Health First Aid, Mandy Torbitt helped a woman deal with shock after witnessing a suicide.
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