Strategic Headlines and Local Intelligence (West Norfolk)CANorfolk
This document provides updates on various topics related to volunteering, demand for social services, public sector reforms, and sustainability planning in Norfolk and Waveney, England. It notes that volunteering rates are unchanged while informal volunteering has dropped 5%. Demand for social services is increasing due to public sector failures and welfare reforms. The Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for health and social care in the area has been submitted but with little community engagement. It outlines strategies around prevention, community care, integrated services, acute care sustainability, and cost-effective delivery. It also discusses market shaping efforts, the need for cultural shifts in partnerships, sector leadership, and increasing collaboration to strengthen organizations and benefit those they serve.
The document discusses trends in the region including rising costs of living, growing income inequality, and environmental crises. It then outlines the role of community economic development (CED) in generating solutions to issues like poverty and building community sustainability through local economic opportunities and leadership. CED approaches address social, economic, and environmental challenges through community-led and holistic solutions like rebuilding local economies, small businesses, cooperatives, youth entrepreneurship, and community investment funds.
This document summarizes a meeting about integrating health and social care in Sheffield, England. It discusses the Thriving VCF Leadership Group, which aims to strengthen relationships between voluntary/community organizations and the public sector. The group will hold quarterly workshops and provide reports to the Sheffield Executive Board. The document also summarizes a presentation on the Better Care Fund, which allocates £3.8 billion nationally to local health and social care priorities. In Sheffield, £42 million will be spent on areas like preventative care, rehabilitation, independent living support, and long-term high-needs care. Attendees then discussed current and potential challenges, opportunities, and ways to overcome challenges through collaboration.
What is Community Economic Develompent? Presentation prepared by the Canadia...Michael Toye
The Canadian CED Network is a national, member-driven organization that promotes community economic development (CED) as an alternative model to address social, economic, and environmental challenges. It has several thousand member organizations across sectors and provides capacity building, research, policy development, and networking support to members. CED involves local communities creating economic opportunities and enhancing social and environmental conditions, particularly for marginalized groups, through a sustainable and inclusive approach.
10.10 care sector, primary and acute collaboration jacqui burrow and bernad...NHS England
The document discusses the journey towards integrating health and social care services in Salford, England. An Integrated Care Organisation (ICO) has been established, with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust as the prime provider, to deliver £96 million in community health, acute care, and social care services through direct provision and subcontracting. The ICO aims to promote prevention, provide person-centered services, deliver more community-based care, and pool resources more efficiently. Neighbourhood teams are being developed to improve access to GPs and community services. Nursing plays a key role in coordinating care to improve outcomes through integrated teams that bring different skills together to best support individuals.
ISF Presentation for Skills for Care CEO network Chris Watson
- Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are transforming commissioning by shifting power and control to individuals through personal budgets.
- ISFs allow assessed funds to be held by an organization chosen by the individual to arrange flexible support outside of a traditional commissioned package.
- Key benefits of ISFs over commissioned support include increased choice, control, and flexibility to adjust support as needed without going through commissioners.
Direction of Health and Social care in Norfolk CANorfolk
The document discusses the creation of an Integrated Care System (ICS) for Norfolk and Waveney to improve how the NHS, social care, and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector work together. Key points:
1) An ICS will take collective responsibility for resources, standards, and population health. It aims to improve health equity, coordinate care, and make the area the best place to work in health and care.
2) Care will be increasingly integrated at the neighborhood and local place levels involving primary care, acute care, mental health, social care, and VCSE organizations.
3) A proposed ICS Partnership Board and VCSE Assembly are discussed to strengthen partnership working
This presentation was given to a webinar on addressing poverty and also contains some suggested waymarkers for response. It is based on local experience and the lessons in the LGA/ADPH Annual Public Health Report 2023
How will Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) help deliver the Five Year Forward View?
Matthew Swindells and Simon Enright, NHS England, and Julia Ross, North West Surrey CCG
Day One, Pop-up University 7, 10.00
This document summarizes the proceedings of a National Volunteering Forum organized by NCVO and AVM. The forum focused on engaging volunteers and paid staff. It included presentations on developing shared principles between volunteers and staff from sector perspectives, as well as case studies from organizations on their approaches. Breakout discussion groups also took place on making decisions around paid and volunteer roles, and challenges faced. The forum concluded with reflections on recognizing, reconnecting and reimagining volunteering in the future, the role of volunteer leadership, and next steps.
This document is a prospectus from West Midlands ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services) outlining their vision and approach to improving adult social care in the region. Their vision is to create a sustainable health and care system that supports thriving communities and promotes independence. The prospectus describes their model for improvement which focuses on self-awareness, mitigating risks, collaboration with partners, and using data to demonstrate good outcomes. It provides details on the scope of adult social care in the region and their strategies to develop new models of social care through community assets, digital innovation, and leadership development programs.
This document provides an overview of a report by the Carnegie UK Trust on rural services and engaging communities in service delivery. It discusses the challenges rural areas face in accessing services due to centralization and budget cuts. It advocates for rural communities to have a role in determining what services are provided and moving away from viewing residents as passive recipients. The report examines examples of successful community involvement from the Trust's rural action research. It stresses the need for public sector organizations to work collaboratively and engage communities to develop innovative solutions to delivering services.
Oakville Community Foundation 2016-2018 Strategic Plan SummarySarah McPherson
The Oakville Community Foundation connects philanthropic donors with community needs to make Oakville a better place. It supports individuals and organizations who want to make a positive impact. The Foundation's strategic plan for 2016-2018 focuses on building effective philanthropy, growing stability and funds, improving performance, and increasing community impact. Key goals include facilitating solutions to local issues, reviewing investment practices, and doubling grants to charities.
The London Voluntary Service Council (LVSC) has released a manifesto for the new London Mayor to recognise and value the VCSE sector.
For London to lock in and leverage these economic, social and personal benefits the VCSE sector needs a workable plan built around the following proposals:
Ensure that the VCSE sector is recognised and included in GLA policy and delivery
Co-produce a London VCSE strategy
Collaborate on the implementation of equalities practice
Innovate GLA commissioning and procurement
Facilitate private sector donations to VCSE groups
Embed the benefits of digital technology.
NCBOR 2014 | How social enterprises work in the (green) maintenance of public...CROW
In de UK is het veel gebruikelijker dat bewoners en bedrijven (mede)verantwoordelijk zijn voor hun directe leefomgeving. Premier David cameron maakt zich hard voor het ontwikkelen van de "Big Society" om locale gemeenteschappen meer kracht te geven. Onze hoofdspreker Steve Clare van Locality, een Britse netwerk van vijfhonderd buurtbeheerorganisaties, vertelt ons over zijn praktijkervaringen in de UK. Hoe zijn de locale bewoners actief in het beheer van hun buurt? Wat levert dat de buurten en de gemeente op? Met welke wetgeving en organisatievormen hebben ze dat voor elkaar gekregen? En wat kunnen wij in Nederland van hen leren? Doen wij al veel aan bewonersparticipatie, of staan wij pas aan het begin van een onomkeerbare verandering...?
The document discusses growing the local social economy through place-based investment using Local Impact Funds. Key points:
1) Local Impact Funds combine business support and growth investment to connect social investment supply and demand at a local level, supporting jobs and growth.
2) Two pilot Local Impact Funds will launch in early 2014 in Liverpool and Northamptonshire, drawing on funding from the EU, Big Society Capital, and local public/private investors.
3) The funds will provide tailored support and financing to local charities and social enterprises, with a goal of establishing up to 20 Local Impact Funds across England by 2020 to strengthen local social economies.
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Networked Energy: Energy independence for AlderneyCitizen Network
by Chris Cook and Marcus Saul, Island Power
As Research Fellows at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security, at University College, London, Marcus Saul and Chris Cook researched and developed the Pacific Natural Grid resource resilience strategy.
Here they explain how Denmark has led the way in creating sustainable networks of community-based energy production and distribution.
This has been transformative for Denmark, enabling it to become independent from the oil and gas industry’s dominance. But it is also transformative for communities, who are now creating their own energy economies.
Dr Dave Beck gave this talk for Part 5 of the ‘Grassroots Policies for Farming, Food and Wildlife’ webinar series, hosted by Citizen Network.
In his presentation Dr Beck discusses the harms caused by the monopolisation of supermarkets in the food industry. He also explores the positive possibilities of local currencies.
Dr Beck is a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester.
The webinar recording is available to watch on Citizen Network's website at: www.citizen-network.org
This document discusses key issues in disability and aged care systems and proposes ways to advance citizenship rights through self-directed support. It advocates for personal budgets and upstream solutions to prevent crises. It also highlights the need for innovation from communities, professionals, and individuals to develop sustainable and inclusive systems that respect people's freedom, support, participation, and citizenship.
Sabrina Espeleta of War on Want outlines the enormous and growing level of world hunger. She explains how a few global corporations control the vast majority of food production and supply and markets exploit the food market, leaving communities, especially in the Global South at great disadvantage. Local peasant farmers are now organising to achieve food sovereignty, seeking to farm in ways in harmony with nature and to meet local needs. The Global North needs to respect the rights and autonomy of these people rather than to continue the pattern of exploitation.
This presentation was given on 6 July in Part 4 of a webinar series on grassroots policies for farming, food and wildlife.
Watch the recording at: https://citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy was asked by the Mayor’s Greater Manchester Charity and UBI Lab Manchester to talk at a recent roundtable event on the relevance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to the problem of homelessness.
These are the slides from that talk. In summary Duffy argued that UBI is relevant to reducing homelessness in two slightly different ways:
1. UBI would help prevent homelessness - UBI addresses the inequalities in income and housing that create the risk of homelessness.
2. UBI would help people escape homelessness - UBI gives people a vital tool which significantly helps people change their situation in times of crisis.
Find more free resources on basic income at: www.citizen-network.org
A presentation for the One Yorkshire Committee introducing Democratic Yorkshire - a voluntary alliance consisting of a group of organisations and individuals interested in planning a better future for our County through modern democratic means secured in a written constitution.
In this presentation exploring planning law, Laird Ryan talks us through the planning process, explores what we can and can't influence and helps us consider how best to create real, organic and local alliances that make the best use of our energy.
To find out more about the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement please visit: https://neighbourhooddemocracy.org
Citizenship is our Business - The Avivo StoryCitizen Network
Avivo is one of the founding organisations in Citizen Network. they are also pioneers in self-direction and personalised support in Australia. Over the past few years they have been reorganising themselves around the principle that everyone is a citizen - and supporting everyone, including paid staff, to be citizens is their central purpose. Avivo are also leading Citizen Network's Rethinking Organisations programme and networking with other organisations on this journey.
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to Doncaster's Mental Wellbeing Alliance about the importance of thinking about what good help really means. He explored the importance of shifting power, resources and thinking upstream.
Markus Vähälä, CEO of Citizen Network, outlined the development of the cooperative as a framework to support the further development of Citizen Network as part of the 2022 Building Citizen network Together events hosted by Eberswalde University.
At BuildingCitizen Network Together in early 2022 Simon Duffy and James Lock discussed the development of Citizen Network and its current approach to membership and explored with members from all around the world next steps for its development.
These slides are from a talk Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network gave to Café Economique in Leeds, making the case for basic income. The argument set out is that UBI is one necessary part of a range of reforms necessary to support citizenship and strengthen community life. This talk preceded a (rather fiery) debate with Anna Coote of NEF who argued against UBI.
Simon Duffy gave this talk for Radical Visions on home, citizenship, institutionalisation and neighbourhood democracy. He explains why institutions are wrong and what we might be do to end the drive towards institutionalisation.
A presentation for the Estia International Confernce in 2021 from Dr Simon Duffy exploring personal budgets, citizenship and community and the challenges for services aiming to work in partnership with people with disabilities in Greece.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Ngo Causes Together we can bring positive changeSERUDS INDIA
Seruds is an NGO helping children whose parents abandoned them were affected by deadly diseases like HIV, cancer, AIDS, and rare viruses. Some lost their parents and some lost their families in floods, which were caused due to climate change. Due to lack of education the children are choosing the wrong path, getting involved in drug rackets, addicted to alcohol, losing their consciousness, fighting with people and behaving like a rogue.Seruds is providing them with education and assisting these people, empowering them with knowledge, skill, and empathy, such that they can have a meaningful life.
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Donate for a Poor Elderly Woman's KurnoolSERUDS INDIA
Seruds is taking care of nutritious food thrice daily, accommodation, timely healthcare, clothes, recreation like tv, radio, devotional music, etc. By providing her with these minimum basic things, she is able to live with dignity and she feels grateful to Seruds for their support. In this regard, she also needs your support and for her well-being so that she can lead the rest of her healthy life happily
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Abridged V22 CHK Ron edited - Solving the US Water Crisis.pptxRonald C Tocci
We're lucky to live in a nation that can rocket people into space, land them on the moon, and reel them safely back to earth. Surely, we can find a way to mitigate the ravages of national disasters and human misery.
Our nation stands at a crossroads, where raging floods meet scorched earth. This is not just a challenge—it's our clarion call to greatness. We must unleash American ingenuity to create a revolutionary water redistribution system that defies nature's extremes. Imagine floodwaters instantly quenching wildfires, parched farmlands blooming anew, and no community ever thirsting again. This isn't a pipe dream—it's our imperative.
We can save countless lives, revitalize our economy, and propel America to unrivaled global leadership in environmental stewardship by making… …water work for America
Docuseries Pitch Deck "Priceless: Personhood, Protection, and Pride for Gende...mtorre3
What does gender-affirming care look like on a daily basis? The media and political discourse focus on the illusory danger of impulsive medical care; but in truth, accessing gender-affirming care is a far more nuanced experience for LGBTQ+ youth. The Free to Be Youth Project's (FYP) upcoming docuseries, "Priceless" explores the nuances of gender-affirming care from the perspective of unhoused and at-risk LGBTQ+ youth and legal advocates in NYC.
Gender-affirming care supports gender identity and expression holistically, addressing gender dysphoria and safety concerns for LGBTQ+ youth through medical procedures, legal support, and social transition. However, financial, social, and political barriers disenfranchise unhoused, street-involved, and at-risk youth from accessing the proven benefits of this care.
To overcome these barriers, our collaborators harness the power of the FYP’s free legal support and fashion show fundraiser. The creative thinking of legal advocates parallels our clients’ innovative and sustainable design process as we collectively work to increase access to life-saving gender-affirming care.
What is Person-Centred Experiential Therapy?donnytrakindo
Counselling and psychotherapy practitioners understand their work from a variety of perspectives. There are a variety of well-established 'models' or 'approaches' and these generally hold many insights in common, whilst also having their own specific contributions and characteristics (click here for a brief summary of these from BACP). My work is firmly but flexibly rooted in person-centred experiential approaches.
This approach to therapy originated in the work of psychologist, therapist, educator, and researcher, Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987), who was the initiator not only of what he called 'Client Centred Therapy' but also of innovative approaches to education, human relations, and community-building. In the decades since his death, the approach has been developed by practitioners and theorists in many parts of the world, and notably in Scotland. These developments have led to a number of different emphases in working, collectively now described as 'Person-centred and Experiential Psychotherapies' (PCE), which have a long-established,
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
2. www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
Health inequalities in Sheffield – Overview
Source: ONS/Indices of Multiple Deprivation produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Source: MHCLG via Sheffield City Council Annual Equalities Report 2020-2021).
3. www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
Our ambition is to empower communities in
north east of Sheffield to live happier and
healthier lives
• To connect people to each other in their communities
through increased investment in to local VCS organisations
• To build community capacity of individuals and
neighbourhoods to help them address issues that are
important to them
• To devolve power to communities
4. www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
How Sheffield is reducing health inequalities
• We have an ambitious 5 year plan for a North East (NE) Model Neighbourhood in
Sheffield.
• It sets out a new way of creating health, wellbeing and connection within our
communities.
• It builds on the Health and Care Partnership’s commitment to devolve power to
communities, strengthen connections and build community capacity to address issues
that are important to them.
• Communities have the knowledge, skills and assets which means they are best placed to
identify and respond to any challenges they face.
• We want local people to know their neighbours, have strong relationships and a network
of people who support and look out for each other. We want thriving community
infrastructure that will help attract investment into Sheffield, boosting the local economy.
• All evidence points to successful sustainable change happening at a grassroots level and
we will facilitate that.
• We want to change Sheffield, one neighbourhood at a time.
5. www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
Shift power to
communities; Focus
on what’s strong and
local, not what’s
wrong and external
Work alongside
communities on
identifying needs
and solutions
Devolve
power
Create the space for
connection and
conditions for
relational working
Non-medical model
based on
relationships and
connections, not
services
Prioritise
relationships
Be proactive in
reaching and enabling
diverse communities to
engage
Recognise
communities of interest
alongside
neighbourhoods
Readdress the balance
in funding for black,
minority ethnic
communities
Plans will be
community led and
community focused,
not system led
Focus on what’s
strong and local, not
what’s wrong
Recognise
community
strengths
Be radically
inclusive
Taking a locality approach – key ingredients
6. www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
True partnership working
• The voluntary community sector, voluntary sector alliance, NHS, city council, police, DWP,
primary care network and New Local are working together to co-produce a programme plan and
change the system.
• Four community plans will be produced by communities. Communities hold themselves to
account for delivery.
Stage 5:
System
change plan
Stage 4:
Finalise
community
plans
Stage 3:
Community
Engagement
Stage 2: VCSE
investment &
development
Stage 1:
Sensemaking
Stage 0:
Prog setup
Investment into the NE
Evaluation & policy
change
Micro and small grants
Growing capacity and
capability
7. www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
www.sheffieldhcp.org.uk
Four community organisations
Year 1
sustainability
investment:
• Drive and lead the community planning
• Capacity building to scale up community development approaches in north
east
• Scale up operational services including dance classes for Roma women,
free community gyms,
• Community researchers
• Administration of small grants