Poverty Awareness Training

Poverty Awareness Training 

Date Posted: 13/01/25 - Updated 06/05/25

Free Online Poverty Awareness Training - New Dates Coming Soon!

NHS GM and Resolve Poverty are working in partnership to tackle poverty as the primary cause of poor health outcomes and early death amongst our population.  As part of this commitment, Resolve Poverty are offering free Poverty Awareness Training to NHS GM staff and Integrated Care Partners that is aimed at exploring the relationship between poverty and health and the steps we can all take to make a difference. 

This training will be delivered in two parts, you can sign up to one or both parts of the training. If you are attending both parts of the training, you do not have to attend both parts on the same day.
Look at the course descriptions below and decide which parts of the training are most relevant to you.

Click the links below to sign up.

Poverty Awareness Training: Part 1 - Practical support

This session is all about how we can practically help people who are living in poverty.

This session is suitable for:

  • NHS Greater Manchester staff
  • Anyone working in health or social care in Greater Manchester
  • Anyone working in partnership with NHS Greater Manchester

At this session you will learn:

  • How poverty affects people and communities in Greater Manchester.
  • Best practice when offering support to people in need.
  • How to find practical resources you can use to support people in need.

Training dates available soon...


Poverty Awareness Training: Part 2 - Strategic responses to poverty

You do not need to attend the other session 'part 1 - practical support' in order to attend this session. 

This session is all about understanding how poverty affects the NHS system in Greater Manchester, and how we can tackle poverty through strategy and policy responses

This is suitable for:

  • NHS Greater Manchester staff
  • anyone working in health or social care in Greater Manchester
  • anyone working in partnership with NHS Greater Manchester

At this session you will learn:

  • What poverty is and how it affects people and communities in Greater Manchester.
  • How poverty affects the NHS system in Greater Manchester.
  • How we can design strategic and policy responses to tackle poverty within the NHS.

Training dates available soon...


Please contact Teniola Yusuf at Resolve Poverty with any questions: teniola@resolvepoverty.org