Bronze Health Quality Mark

On Thursday the 19/3/26 Brid from NYCI visited the Task Force to present the health promotor Sophie and the team with the Bronze Health Quality Mark.

NYCI has developed the Health Quality Mark (HQM) as a health promotion initiative with a view to enhancing best practice and a high standard of quality in all aspects of health promotion in youth organisations.

The HQM is a set of quality standards in youth health promotion and takes the form of an award conferred on organisations that satisfy agreed quality criteria. The criteria, twelve in total, have been drawn up by the NYCI and are based on best practice in health promotion at a regional and national level, as outlined in various strategy documents.

Much of the criteria have been drawn from the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria that were developed for the Health Promoting Schools Initiative and adapted by the NYCI. As a result, varying levels of the HQM are available – bronze, silver and gold, according to the levels of the criteria achieved.

Sophie has been working on achieving the bronze award for the past few months with the help from the team!