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Hi team,
The Staffordshire Community of Practice will be meeting on the evening of Thursday 25th February for a chat and update on all matters SFP.
We will be meeting in Stone, Staffordshire. Time and precise venue to follow.
All the best,
Steve
Steve Freeman,
Research Nurse, Solution Focused Approaches Manager, Clinical Effectiveness Support Unit.
Lecturer Keele University.
01782 441653
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Hi Steve, my first few steps through my Community Arts MA has been to explore the history of community development, mainly in the context of regeneration. Although this may seem a world away from working in the health context there are many parallels when viewed through an SF lens.
Much of the literature into community capacity building indicate the failure to engage with the resources (social capital) that exists in every community. The approach tends to be from a pathological perspective i.e "This community is deprived and need outside help to fix it's problems which are....".
Evidently stakeholders have been overlooking the true assets that exist, the kinship, relationships, networks, knowledge and community's ability to find localised solutions, sounds familiar?
Now the big shift in policy has been to discover and tap into the resources inherent in communities however this requires a shift in thinking from being the expert parachuted in to fix the problem to expert in discovering the experts.
Where does art fit in? Well, let's just say that if you give people the choice to attend a meeting with suits, minutes, fixed agendas and bureaucracy or to engage in activities that creatively tap into their expertise then you tend to find the latter wins!
Carl Plant (RMN)
Caseload Manager
Condition Management Programme
NHS North Staffordshire
07809586183
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