EPP (Expert Patients Programme)
The Expert Patients Programme (EPP) is a free course for anyone living with one, or more, long-term health condition in Croydon. The six-week course is designed to boost your health and wellbeing, find solutions to common problems and help you feel more confident to manage your condition.
The Expert Patients Programme complements the care and support you already receive from healthcare professionals and will make you aware of other services and resources available in your area.
Weekly sessions cover a range of topics including:
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Managing symptoms
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Dealing with pain and tiredness
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Coping with feelings of depression and anxiety
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Healthy eating
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Exercise
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Managing stress
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Planning for the future
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Communicating with family, friends and health care
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Finding other health services in the community
Capacity Building/Infrastructure Support
Our unique Capacity Building/ Infrastructure Support Programme is being funded Croydon Counci'sl Community Fund.
It is aimed at strengthening Croydon’s Asian voluntary and community sector organisations, in order to enable them to achieve long-term sustainability.
The Programme’s main objective is to assist these organisations in modernizing their structures and systems, so as to be capable of delivering better and more effective services to their constituent groups.
ARCC is ideally placed to understand the difficulties faced by the various Asian communities providing services in Croydon and as a result design innovative solutions to tackle their problems. Aided by a bespoke Health Check (Tool Kit) we seek to identify a given organisation’s Capacity Building needs in ten particular areas of organizational development.
After their initial assessment, we will make recommendations and draft an Action Plan working on a one-to-one basis with these groups, providing them with guidance and support in implementing their particular recommendations.
It is also an objective of the project to support organisations in obtaining a Quality Mark. We will provide the organisations with: -
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Free Professional Guidance and Support
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Free Assistance with Training and Development
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Free Information on Networks and other relevant Sources of Information
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Mentoring where appropriate
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Fundraising Strategy
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Business plan
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