Just Enough Support

Building on the work described in "All Together Now", offering a highly practical, step by step approach to generating ideas, testing and implementing them. The aim is to proactively develop alternatives to paid support, promoting better outcomes for people and be in control as funding reduces.

As the impact of the economic downturn and the dwindling public finances from the credit crunch hit public services in the UK, there is a growing pressure that all of us will experience a reduction of funding over the coming years and possibly longer.

There are two options. We can either wait for central, regional or local government to come up with solutions and be passive recipients of this or we can be proactive and take this opportunity to make a concerted push around developing alternatives to just paid support, promote better outcomes for people and be in control of our own destiny as funding reduces.

Over the years we have provided support to people in a way that has been a barrier to fully contributing to their community. In the current climate, here are a number of questions to consider:

  • How do we develop alternatives to just paid support for people?
  • How do we continue to develop individually designed services at a time of reduced budgets?
  • How do we stay true to our values and prinicples whilst moving forward?
  • What hasn't worked, why not and how can we try it differently?
  • Looking in depth at a person's day/night and working out the where support comes from?
  • Does housing play a significant role in our thinking?
  • How can we use assistive technology to support people?
  • Who is the person and what do we notice about what they bring and what they can contribute?
  • What relationship does the person have that can be nutured, develop and can be reciprocal?
  • How do  we move from what currently is to what could be and test out the impact of ideas on the person and the service?
  • How do we find a balance of what is important to people whilst providing just enough support?
  • Action planning next steps

 

Who is it for?

Providers, commissioners and all people trying to create indiviually designed services in the current financial context. The workshops are at their most productive when there is a cross section from any organisation, support workers alongside their leaders and senior managers. This, together with the commissioning team, creates a real sense of partnerships working.

 

How much does this course cost:

UK costs £700 excluding VAT, materials and expenses. Please contact kerry@helensandersonassociates.co.uk

For more information regarding delivery and costs of this course internationally, please contact:

In the USA contact amandag@helensandersonassociates.com

In Canada contact juliem@hsacanada.ca

In Australia contact info@helensandersonassociates.com.au

 

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