Making Every Contact Count (MECC)
The Making Every Contact Count (MECC) approach encourages effective brief interventions.
We know that telling people what to do is not the most effective way to support them to make positive changes for their health and well-being.
MECC is a skills based training opportunity for attendees to reflect on their current practise and use simple techniques to empower those they work with to come up with and implement their own solutions.
MECC also touches on both the wider determinants that can influence someone’s ability to make healthy choices and local signposting for more specialist support.
ELearning for MECC
MECC is for everyone, it is not restricted to one person, profession or organisation.
What does MECC mean for:
- organisations - it provide staff with the leadership, environment, training and information they need to deliver the MECC approach.
- staff - it gives the competence and confidence to deliver health and wellbeing messages, to help encourage people to change their behaviour and to direct them to local services that can support them.
- individuals - it helps them seek support and take action to improve their own health and wellbeing.
Elearning for Healthcare offer free online modules to develop an understanding of public health and the factors that impact of a person’s health and wellbeing.
This training can be found at Making Every Contact Count - elearning for healthcare (e-lfh.org.uk)
There are three online sessions:
1. What is MECC and why it is important
2. How to have a MECC Conversation
3. Signposting
and an optional learning 'Five ways to wellbeing' session.
There is also the MECC Toolkit designed to provide resources and information to help you understand what Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is, and to support people and organisations at every level to adopt the MECC approach.
MECC Link
MECC Link is an online signposting tool available to everyone in B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire to help find where support can be accessed for health and wellbeing.
