1. Learning the Language 24 February 2016
Jeff Lake,
Consultant in Public Health
Curate, St Bride’s Fleet Street
Jim McManus
Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire
FaithAction Advisory Council
FaithAction is a strategic
partner of the Department of Health

2. Abstract
If you want to be impressing and influencing the decision makers, then you need to know what to say and how to say it. Led by public health experts with in-depth experience of working with faith groups, this seminar will equip you with the tools you need. If you want to know how faith groups and public health agencies can get their message to each other, then you need to be at this.

4. Demographic pressure

5. Demand pressure

6. Weak Citizen Engagement

7. Place based health

8. Potential leaders

9. The Faith Covenant Developed by the APPG on Faith and Society
To support identification and development of faith communities social action
Sets out principles to support commissioning of services

10. déjà vu? Faith Communities and Emergency Planning Guidance 2008

11. Orientating yourself in a new landscape
Commissioners
Faith Communities
Lack of ability to understand religion and role in health
Lack of religious literacy
The least well done diversity strand in NHS (McManus and Brass,2008 and2 2013)
Suspicion about motives and standards of faith communities
Culture of do and deliver and worry about evidence and outcomes later
Not understanding the system
Not being able to articulate the benefits, challenges and outcomes meaningfully

12. Psychology of Expert Novice Differences
Faith Communities
Faith
Service
Commissioning
Sometimes safeguarding
Outcomes and evidence
Commissioners
Performance
Sometimes outcomes and evidence
People with very different knowledge sets trying to work together. Need people skilled enough to translate between the two

13. Key knowledge to be effective
Population Need
Policy
Outcomes
Service
Delivery
Diversity, Equality,
Safeguarding
Role of Faith
Intrapersonal, interpersonal, social
Working against a background of very low religious literacy on the parts of many commissioners

14. Understand what you’re about to try – a public health mindset
Understand what you’re about to try – a public health mindset. From understanding need to showing you’ve met it
What population?
Where are we? Intelligence, JSNA
What issue/need?
(Needs Assessment)
Where do we want to be?
What outcomes do we want?
(Strategy)
What interventions fit best?
(Prioritising, Planning)
How do we get there?
How do we know it’s working?
(Evaluation)
Are we there yet?

15. Thank you