Sharon Dale and Luke Wilkinson (Derby County) present Team Talk programme
We are excited to reveal that Sharon Dale, Health Manager and Luke Wilkinson, Health Team Leader, representatives from Derby County Community Trust, will both be presenting at our 14th EFDN ‘#Morethanfootball’ Conference.
Sharon Dale has been working at Derby County Community Trust for the past eleven years as the Health Manager. Her role is to have a strategic overview of the health department and develop innovative programmes which support local community members to improve their health and well-being. The health departments programmes aim to reduce inequalities within areas of deprivation, using physical activity as a mechanism for change. Supporting local communities to improve their social, emotional and physical health is the foundation of everything she does.
Luke Wilkinson has been employed at Derby County Community Trust for twelve years. His role as Health Team Leader includes working with older people to reduce social isolation, delivers walking football for inactive older people and manage the Team Talk programme which works with males who suffer mild mental health problems. Luke has extensive experience around coaching, motivational interviewing and delivering physical activity programmes to targeted individuals and groups.
Sharon and Luke will be presenting an overview of the Team Talk programme delivered in UK and how the programme was initially set up, including the recruitment of participants, retention, things that went well, things that needed to be changed and what next looking forward to the future. It will provide the audience with an open forum to discuss good practice within their area of work and explore ideas of using this to improve the current programme and offer.
