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Making Every Contact Count (MECC)

Sorry Registration for this event ended on January 13th, 2026 1:00 PM
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Making Every Contact Count (MECC), this is a behavioural change technique which is now commonly used by health and social care staff during their day-to-day interactions or health appointments with individuals, although you don’t need to be in one of these roles to attend the training, it can be beneficial to anyone.

The training session will give you tips on how to ask the right questions, what questions to avoid asking, how best to approach a situation, and where to signpost individuals to find further support on making healthy changes to their lives if it's appropriate. It isn’t about telling individuals what to do, it’s about working with them to find what’s best for them and their situation.

 

 

When
Jan 13, 2026 from 10:00 AM to  1:00 PM
Location
Seaview Project, Southwater Centre
Hatherley Road
St Leonards
Hastings, TN37 6LB
United Kingdom

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Delivered by One You East Sussex. Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is a behaviour change approach that utilises the millions
of day-to-day interactions organisations and individuals have with people to support them in making positive changes to their physical health and mental wellbeing. MECC enables the opportunistic delivery of healthy lifestyle information and enables conversations about health at scale across organisations.

Jackson Hall
5 March 10:00AM
To 5 March 1:00PM

Members of the team at Seaview who have experience in delivering training agreed to support a group of people with lived experience of substance misuse to develop their own training programme, raising awareness about drug and alcohol-related issues among the wider workforce. Thanks to a small grant awarded and support from Dr Daren Britt, Principle Lecturer in Criminology and substance misuse at Brighton University, Seaview were able to recruit the peer trainers who developed training with a unique lived experience perspective with support from some experienced trainers. The result is Connect, lived experience drug and alcohol training.
Please send an email to [email protected] to reserve a space.

Hatherley Road
10 March 9:30AM
To 10 March 4:30PM

This session focuses on pathways into volunteering for young people. Whether via work experience, family connections, T-Levels, or placements, we will discuss how organisations can work with colleges and schemes to provide volunteering opportunities for young people. We’ll explore how placements can be tailored to suit organisations and what support is provided to make it easy.

161 Bexhill Road
11 March 12:00PM
To 11 March 2:00PM

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