Here you will be able to access supporting resources, log your valuable engagement and feed info from the system to communities.

We want to ensure that Champions are equipped to deliver key messages around support and self-management for CYP with diabetes. Consequently, allowing us to create an informed community of voluntary organisations, community ambassadors, parents and families who understand, are better informed and able to manage their child’s diabetes at home, however, are able to recognise and escalate care swiftly when necessary.

As part of the champions training, they are given the tools as part of our delivery model to engage with service users, communities, other partners, and agencies to actively seek feedback in relation to the success and delivery of the project. As part of their role community champions will carry out the following as part of their role:

1. Consultation: Active exchange of information with communities, where community members advice on planned interventions may be sought, e.g., consulting Community Champions on appropriate, innovative, and effective ways to engage and deliver key health messages to targeted communities.
2. Participation: Community Champions work and support broader and targeted communities to co-identify problems and implement solutions by empowering and supporting communities and structures to deliver change.
3. Community Empowerment: Community Champions consult widely with and involve communities in local health-related issues and use community structures for service provision, e.g., Community Champions liaise with community members and grassroots organisations to identify challenges and formulate their own solutions to challenges, locally owned and feasible to achieve a more sustained and accessible solution for communities.

As part of the consultation, participation and empowerment framework, our Champions are able to share and communicate with us what works, what doesn’t seem to work and what could/needs to be done to improve project delivery and achieve improved outcomes and impact as part of an informed system change.

Community Champions will contribute to existing pathways by offering an effective service in a community place-based setting. The main focus being on information sharing, awareness raising, signposting, 1-1 sessions, group sessions, drop-ins, outreach as an approach to early prevention activities to support safe management and reduce/avoid late admissions of young people experiencing acute health conditions.