Health and Wellbeing Conference 2012

 

'Healthy Lives For All - Our City'

Together making changes for healthier lives in Leeds – What can you do?

8th March 2012, Leeds Marriott Hotel, Leeds City Centre

Welcome to the 4th Annual Improving Health and Wellbeing conference. Public Health is a complex but rewarding field which requires a range of multi-disciplinary and collaborative approaches in order to bring about change within communities, organisations and individuals.

The theme this year aims to embed promoting healthy lifestyles into everyone’s role and will show-case the ambitious new initiatives helping the population of Leeds live more healthily. This includes improving engagement with and access to healthy lifestyle and behaviour change opportunities, workforce development, healthy places and outcomes intelligence. We will focus on how everyone has a role to play through:

• Strengthening self-esteem, confidence and access to a healthy lifestyle support
• Promoting ‘healthier’ behaviours and lifestyles from an asset based approach
• Adapting the environment to make healthy lifestyles easier

Who should attend the conference?

The conference welcomes everyone who’s work role can impact on improving health and wellbeing for the population of Leeds, including;

• Front line workers from:

- Health

- Local Authority (including arms length management organisations (ALMO’s), Education, Early Years

- Voluntary and Faith sector

- Commercial sector

• Operational managers
• Policy makers and
• Commissioners

Why you should attend

To be inspired by:

• A whole systems approach to enabling healthy lifestyles
• All the good work happening in Leeds to support widespread lifestyle behaviour change and how you can be a part of it
• Our highly engaging key note speakers Damian Edwards and Prof Mike Kelly. Damian is a nationally respected expert Speaker on the topics of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Addictive Behaviour, Motivational Interviewing, Stress and The Psychology of Change and is the expert trainer of our Making Every Contact Count training programme and Professor Mike Kelly, Director of the Centre of Public Health Excellence at NICE where he leads on the development of public health guidance. Who in 2010 was awarded the Alwyn Smith Prize of the Faculty of Public Health for his work on cardiovascular disease and alcohol misuse prevention
• Individual success stories
• Asset based approaches (Focus on solutions not problems)

And:

• To engage with the process
• To network with peers from a diverse range of roles and agencies across Leeds health and wellbeing role
• To have your questions answered with helpfulness and creativity
• To take part in interactive workshops and displays

What people have said about last year’s conference

"Very informative.  To continue to work hard and make an active difference to health and wellbeing and making an active change!!" (delegate from the 2011 Health and Wellbeing Conference)

"Inspirational speakers.  Reminds me why I do this job – never give up" (delegate from the 2010 Health and Wellbeing Conference)

“Importance of networking to improve health and wellbeing across Leeds” (delegate from the 2011 Health and Wellbeing Conference)

Sustainable conferencing:

• Delegates are encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint by walking, cycling, car sharing and using public transport
• Catering includes a locally sourced (where possible) menu made on site which includes creative vegetarian options.  In addition to this we will be supplying tap water
• Web site to access all information from conference
• Marketing of this event will be in an electronic format where possible

How to express your interest in attending

Please click on the 'Register an Interest' button below