Housing First Strategies for Transformative Change in Glasgow
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Welcome HOUSING FIRST GLASGOW
Welcome and IntroductionMartin Cawley, Turning Point Scotland
So why have an event like today? • Share learning and experience • Frustrations that issues are often dealt with ‘in silos’ • Lost potential of synergies in multi-agency, trans-disciplinary approaches if we don’t • Adopting a ‘whole systems’ approach in learning, planning and practice encourages whole systems thinking • Highlight the effectiveness of working with shared goals and objectives in an inclusive way • Achieve better outcomes and increased return on the investment
Is it all about poverty? • Financial poverty • Poverty of participation • Poverty of power and influence • Poverty of freedom, opportunities & choice • Poverty of status • Poverty of ‘belonging’ • Poverty of social relations
As a result of all this! There can be a Poverty of expectation • Amongst people who use services and others in society • Let’s try to avoid inevitability and fatalism • Transforming expectations is critical to achieving and embedding change, person centeredness and recovery
Peer Support Worker • Helps instil hope into practice • Supports the notion of social wellness • Helps build the knowledge and responsibility to self manage • Promotes a positive lifestyle as route to recovery • Means taking more risks • Encourages greater support
Housing First…What Next? • Prevention must be an integral strategy • Increase opportunities to employment, education and meaningful activity • Promote social community connections • Celebrate successes
What type of behaviours are needed to respond? • Be agile and flexible and embrace uncertainty • Innovate and continue to change organically • Challenge our/your own assumptions • Test creative ideas and accept risk • Prove what we do makes a difference • Establish strong external/connecting relationships