communities
IRISS is pleased to host a morning with Paul Morin, Professor of Social Work at Sherbrooke University (Quebec, Canada) on 7th September from 10am – 12pm.
Paul has a wealth of knowledge and experience about how assets-based approaches have been used for a variety of different purposes across different settings e.g. in Kansas, Quebec and Italy. Paul’s most recent research in this area has focused on neighbourhood interventions and their links to mental health.
On Thursday, 24th May, the Social Assets in Action project was launched - a project that continues the work done with East Dunbartonshire CHP, Community Care, NHS GGC and others in an advisory role, to promote a strenghts-based approach to supporting individuals, by developing an asssets-based model in community mental health services.
Community Catalysts is a Community Interest Company established in January 2010 by and working in close partnership with the charity Shared Lives Plus, an organisation that promotes the effective provision of accommodation, care and support for vulnerable adults within very small-scale family and community settings. Community Catalysts works to harness the talents of people and communities to provide imaginative solutions to social issues and care needs, giving them greater choice in the way they live their lives.
Beth Weaver is lecturer at the Glasgow School of Social Work, University of Strathclyde. Here she talks about research she has been working on with Sarah Armstrong (University of Glasgow) entitled 'What the punished think of their punishment'. The research involved speaking with 35 men and women ranging in age from 19 to 55 about their experiences of punishment. The aim was to accurately describe the experience for offenders of doing a short sentence, in prison or the community. Here Beth talks about the key findings from the research and the implications for policy and practice.
A project managed by the charity, Rock Trust, and funded by Communities Scotland, Scottish Social Networks has been created in response to recommendations in the Homelessness Task Force Final Report to raise awareness of the need for positive social networks and to support the development and integration of befriending, mentoring and mediation services for people affected by homelessness or at risk of homelessness.
Professor Lena Domenelli, Durham University. Culturally competent social work : why bother? Glasgow 5 November 2010.
Mike Naulty is Associate Dean, School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, University of Dundee.
This talk was delivered at Personalisation and Community Capacity, a joint seminar and workshop by the Perth and Kinross Council and University of Stirling Partnership, held at the University of Stirling on 4 December 2009.
Kirstein Rummery is Chair of Social Policy at the University of Stirling.
This talk was delivered at Personalisation and Community Capacity, a joint seminar and workshop by the Perth and Kinross Council and University of Stirling Partnership, held at the University of Stirling on 4 December 2009.
Annette Thain, NHS e-library. e-learning in the workplace - taking learning to the learner, Glasgow Science Centre, Monday 29 January 2007. The workshop will demonstrate the NHS Scotland e-Library, how to access it and how to register for a password; the Shared space tool which provides a virtual workspace to support the sharing knowledge and learning; how to use the online discussions; Discussion of the role of communities of practice in supporting elearning and how the tools could assist the development of these communities.