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It’s for Everyone!
A one-day workshop examining:
Effective Support for Self Determination in Social Care
Good Lives for the most Excluded People
Tuesday April 8th: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
The Gloucester Resource Centre,
City Works, Alfred Street, Gloucester, GL1 4DF
Background:
From April 1st elderly, and in most communities, disabled people will be offered a choice if they need significant social care support. In due course it seems inevitable that all beneficiaries of social services will enjoy the same opportunities.
The choice will be, as applies at present,to be assessed for access to services or to be assessed in respect of entitlement to monies (Individual Budgets) which can then be used by the person and their family in the context of a very tailored response to the individual’s wants and needs.
This presents a wonderful potential for creative solutions:
for elderly people to live out their lives in their own communities instead of “God’s Waiting Room”
for truly person-centred, responsive, and developmental support arrangements, combining natural and paid support components, around disabled people
and for collaborations between families in local communities to establish the services and mutual arrangements that enhance Do-It-Yourself Community Care.
The people and organisations contributing to this Seminar have all been wrestling with these concepts for many years and, most importantly, engaging in the learning by doing action research that differentiates aspiration from experience. They have all developed very different but complementary approaches.
A LivesthroughFriends Launch Seminar in collaboration with Studio III and Beyond Welfare (USA)
http://studio3.org/data/events/livethroughfriends.gif (http://www.livesthroughfriends.org)
Who should attend?
Policy Makers, Social Care Professionals, Families, People who Use Services, Commissioners, Providers, and Voluntary and Community Organisations to spend a day hearing about, discussing, and reflecting upon the radically different future we can choose to build.
The organisers:
Beyond Welfare: from Iowa is a ‘user-led and inspired’ community organisation that frees the leader in everyone and builds “communities of caring across lines of difference so that everyone has enough money, friends, and meaning.” (www.beyondwelfare.org (http://www.beyondwelfare.org/) - see the streamed video!)
Studio III: are leaders in low arousal approaches to assisting people with very challenging reputations to pursue fulfilling, contributing and included lives (www.studio3.org (http://www.studio3.org/))
LivesthroughFriends: is new, founded by serial social entrepreneurs who have nearly seventy years of disability oriented community development experience between them, and devoted to building a diversity of local, effective, and empowering support arrangements for people, families, and communities who choose to self determine or, without the jargon, Do It Themselves.
Costs:
Professionals and Organisations £65 + VAT
Family Members, People Using Services, Unwaged £30 + VAT
To Book a Place:
Download the .pdf and return the Booking Form with Payment to:
LivesthroughFriends CIC, Peplins Hollow, Top Road, Upper Soudley,
Forest of Dean, GL14 2TY.
For further information email info@livesthroughfriends.org (info@livesthroughfriends.org) or leave a message at 01594 826700.
Directions to venue www.grcltd.org (http://www.grcltd.org/)
A one-day workshop examining:
Effective Support for Self Determination in Social Care
Good Lives for the most Excluded People
Tuesday April 8th: 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
The Gloucester Resource Centre,
City Works, Alfred Street, Gloucester, GL1 4DF
Background:
From April 1st elderly, and in most communities, disabled people will be offered a choice if they need significant social care support. In due course it seems inevitable that all beneficiaries of social services will enjoy the same opportunities.
The choice will be, as applies at present,to be assessed for access to services or to be assessed in respect of entitlement to monies (Individual Budgets) which can then be used by the person and their family in the context of a very tailored response to the individual’s wants and needs.
This presents a wonderful potential for creative solutions:
for elderly people to live out their lives in their own communities instead of “God’s Waiting Room”
for truly person-centred, responsive, and developmental support arrangements, combining natural and paid support components, around disabled people
and for collaborations between families in local communities to establish the services and mutual arrangements that enhance Do-It-Yourself Community Care.
The people and organisations contributing to this Seminar have all been wrestling with these concepts for many years and, most importantly, engaging in the learning by doing action research that differentiates aspiration from experience. They have all developed very different but complementary approaches.
A LivesthroughFriends Launch Seminar in collaboration with Studio III and Beyond Welfare (USA)
http://studio3.org/data/events/livethroughfriends.gif (http://www.livesthroughfriends.org)
Who should attend?
Policy Makers, Social Care Professionals, Families, People who Use Services, Commissioners, Providers, and Voluntary and Community Organisations to spend a day hearing about, discussing, and reflecting upon the radically different future we can choose to build.
The organisers:
Beyond Welfare: from Iowa is a ‘user-led and inspired’ community organisation that frees the leader in everyone and builds “communities of caring across lines of difference so that everyone has enough money, friends, and meaning.” (www.beyondwelfare.org (http://www.beyondwelfare.org/) - see the streamed video!)
Studio III: are leaders in low arousal approaches to assisting people with very challenging reputations to pursue fulfilling, contributing and included lives (www.studio3.org (http://www.studio3.org/))
LivesthroughFriends: is new, founded by serial social entrepreneurs who have nearly seventy years of disability oriented community development experience between them, and devoted to building a diversity of local, effective, and empowering support arrangements for people, families, and communities who choose to self determine or, without the jargon, Do It Themselves.
Costs:
Professionals and Organisations £65 + VAT
Family Members, People Using Services, Unwaged £30 + VAT
To Book a Place:
Download the .pdf and return the Booking Form with Payment to:
LivesthroughFriends CIC, Peplins Hollow, Top Road, Upper Soudley,
Forest of Dean, GL14 2TY.
For further information email info@livesthroughfriends.org (info@livesthroughfriends.org) or leave a message at 01594 826700.
Directions to venue www.grcltd.org (http://www.grcltd.org/)