CATHIP – CAHN

CAHN health hours have been delivered every Saturday since May 2020 and reached thousands of people on Zoom, facebook and YouTube. Our programme developed in response to the ‘Stay at home’ directive where CAHN could no longer go into churches and community spaces to reach our communities with health education and screening activities.

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This programme reflects our goals

Lead

Enhance

Educate

Support

Advocate

The CATHIP Health Hour sessions on Saturday mornings use medical consultants, GPs and other professionals such as nurses and pharmacists to engage community members providing information about prevention, management, and treatment. The programme also bring into panel discussions others that are important influencers of health such as faith leaders.

CAHN’s model of user engagement has been used to develop the Caribbean African Targeted Health Improvement Programme (CATHIP) which is aimed at the Black community.

This programme focuses upon those areas where there are significant risks to health.

CATHIP is a collaborative educative and empowering health literacy programme that reaches people where they are to enable them to take control of their health and to support others. We are working with our partners

How the programme works

We bring relevant health topics that matters to our community

Online Education and discussion with medics and others on what you need to know about specific health issues and how you can take control of your care

Uses the evidence to support the programme and lived experiences.

Will leave you feeling empowered and enabled to self-care and self-manage aspects of your own health and wellbeing

Evaluation and feedback essential to ensure we are always listening to people

All CATHIP partners have a health & wellbeing focus and support the Caribbean & African community in dealing with the disproportionate impact of health problems.

Thousands of people have enhanced their knowledge through the health hours so far, we are reaching more people and this is what some of our attendees have told us since CATHIP

❝ This is an experience I have never had in my lifetime and I am 80 years old, to be able to turn on my TV and watch this on a Saturday morning from my living room is truly incredible, at my age I have learnt so much, than you for bringing this to us, we need it ❞

❝ I love this, I came on when there were over 250 people on zoom to hear about a big problem of fibroids in Black women, truly fantastic, I am now able to confidently speak to my GP about the next steps for treatment ❞

❝ The one hour has made a big difference to me and how I manage my diabetes, I brought a few people along with me to watch it from home and we are so grateful for what the consultant shared with us ❞

❝ The health hours continues to be a great source of information, thanks to you and the team, God Bless ❞