Kate McHendry

Development Manager @SCDC_Org, managing Health Issues in the Community (HIIC); passionate about action research and empowerment.

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

This National Hygiene Week we're celebrating an amazing project, sparked by the Health Issues In the Community course and led by some amazing young people in Castlemilk! 🥰

https://t.co/wI04ZHPavP

@thehygienebank #HygienePoverty #HIIC25

[COPEScotland @COPEScotland]

During #CoProWeekScot we wanted to share wee booklet https://t.co/OEq7fEcfdD gives overview of our journey in past 30 years & why working together & listening to the voices of lived experience matters to us, as none of what we have achieved would have been possible without that

[SCN @ScotCoPro]

Too often things are designed by people who don’t have direct experience of what it’s like to need or use them and ultimately, decisions are made for people, not with them.

Using a co-productive approach, we can do things differently 🙌

#CoProWeekScot

https://t.co/VIZwlZLan7

[Glasgow Women's Library - follow us on Bluesky @womenslibrary]

.@Glasgow_Live spoke to @syma_ahmed about the 10 year anniversary of the groundbreaking publication, She Settles in the Shields: untold stories of migrant women in Pollokshields. Read it online here ⬇️
https://t.co/MkeMWwOcdi

[SCN @ScotCoPro]

Day 2 of #CoProWeekScot, let's be having you 💪

View all the events and blogs happening from network members and partner organisations.
https://t.co/t3z9VOgist

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

We continue to create a space for our HIIC tutors to support one another during this time. To have a go at how to adapt exercises for online.

As always the sessions are full of happy faces, useful tips and encouragement🥰

More about HIIC ▶️ https://t.co/rEnQRxbzYz

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

Another brilliant HIIC tutor training with a brilliant bunch of HIIC tutors in the making!!!

Well done👏👏

[Sam Jordan @SCDC_Sam]

Rare opportunity to join the great team here at SCDC 👇

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

"Suddenly, from all the grimness of lockdown and the staleness of news comes this wee gem of a collection - words from folk who live at the sharp end of life in Scotland."

Foreword from @LesleyRiddoch for this new collection of writings about poverty: https://t.co/L68iMn7Zy5

[Lisa P @EllePats]

Critical work from @SCDC_Org and partners ‘words from folk who live at the sharp end of life in Scotland’

[Fiona Garven @SCDC_Fiona]

This is a new, powerful collection of writing highlighting the lived experiences of people living with, and tackling, poverty in their communities. We need to hear more of these first hand testimonies to properly shape law and policies which make a difference in peoples lives👂👇

[@SCDC_org @SCDC_Org]

Latest child poverty stats are a stark read - even before the pandemic.

We think lived experience is a huge part of challenging poverty.

With this new collection of writing, HIIC students' are doing just that: https://t.co/pllHmcOCWB

[Sam Jordan @SCDC_Sam]

Listening to Kirsty from @YouthComplexCYC talk about her amazing HIIC students as part of day 2 of the @CHEX_Org conference.

Great video about their work around hygiene poverty here: https://t.co/Jj541c7nRr

[Jo Kennedy @JoAnimates]

Highlight of the week so far chairing the CHEX conference, being on a platform with the inspiring Jane Jones author of Health Issues in the Community and hearing some of the stories below

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

We were delighted to have so many people join us for our annual conference this year online exploring the impact of Health Issues in the Community across Scotland.

We're writing up our reflections and will sharing the conference report very soon. #chex2021

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

How do you plan strategically for a bottom-up action-oriented course such as HIIC?

Our #CHEX2021 workshop, ‘Top-Down vs Bottom-Up’ will hear from tutors in Falkirk, Dundee & Glasgow. Giving different perspectives on how to plan & deliver HIIC.

https://t.co/ddqqWhm7jE

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

This HIIC group who meet at the Douglas Community Centre in Dundee share their HIIC journey & the impact is has had on their lives so far in this short video.

https://t.co/ShkM1lO8QA

[CHEX @CHEX_Org]

🎉Our conference is just days away & we're so excited to be joined by Jane Jones, the original author & driving force behind HIIC; author of ‘Private Troubles & Public Issues: A Community Development Approach to Health’ & the founder of @PiltonComHealth.

https://t.co/SeTzv8Z1xY

[David Allan @SCDC_DavidA]

It was very powerful to hear so many people talking about how important co-production is in helping us to 'build back better'. This was reinforced at local level yesterday in Renfrewshire where the same messages were coming through strongly from the emerging local network.

[Fiona Garven @SCDC_Fiona]

#CoProWeekScot great to spend some time yesterday with folks passionate about doing things with people, not for. Best key message for me was 'don't be scared of the community, talk to us!!' Wise words indeed 👍👏 @ScotCoPro @SCDC_Susan @redpath42 @CommEmpower