Community Connecting

We offer a two day introduction to community connecting, and also a more indepth programme to create change within organisation.

We jointly developed the Standards for Communtiy Connecting. These offer a way to ckeck your progress in community connecting, at an individual service, team and organisational level.

Michelle Livesley has been working in partnership with two local authorities, one in the North West and one in the North East on Community Connecting programmes.  In both the standards are used to set direction for change and evaluate ongoing progress and learning.

Read Chapter 12 from the book In Community, Standards in Community Connecting.

 

Books

The minibook Commnity Connecting.

Commnunity connecting minibook

 

In Community: Practical lessons in supporting isolated people to be part of community. by Carl Poll, Jo Kennedy and Helen Sanderson.

In community

Click here to preview In Community.

 

Both books are availiable from the HSA Press website or by calling 0161 442 8271.

 

Papers and Articles

Standards for Community Living.

There are many definitions of 'community' and no agreed definition of 'a good community life'. For organisations that want to help people have a good life in the community, it can be hard to know how successful they are. These draft standards are a first attempt to give some shape and definition to success. We hope you will help us to improve them by suggesting changes.

There are two parts to the standards:

  • Outcomes for people
  • Processes - what supporters do

To read this booklet from In Control see the downloads box on the left

Examples

Community Membership. The basics of one page profiles.

At Northstar Services, they have already created One Page profiles for the individuals they support.

Now they are thinking more consciously and creatively about how to support each person to be a valued community member. Developing a One Page Profile for Community Membership will, Northstar believe, help to focus their thinking.

To read this booklet from Northstar, see the downloads box on the left