Tools that support engagement when thinking about issues and working with other people.
Create your own personalised map of what is important in your life to help promote well-being
WITTY is a free iPad app which enables people to visually map positive assets and factors they have and can better engage with in day to day life.
Whilst we have provided this tool on an iPad you could create a paper version yourself using A3/A4 paper and images and objects you have to hand.
Difficulties, decisions, deliberations
This is a series of 22 process cards. Of these nine are ‘think’ cards for planning and preparing for difficult discussions, and 13 are ‘activity’ cards which present methods that can be done in a group. The cards explain what the process is, it’s purpose, how to engage in this process and what we thought did and did not work when engaging in this process. This is not a ‘how to’ guide, but a tool to help you explore new approaches and develop your own.
Defining what is meant by integrated working
In any discussion of integrated working, a first prerequisite is that all parties define what they are talking about. Integrated working is one of those terms that has come to mean different things to different people so it is essential to ensure that everyone is talking about the same thing.
Practising and sustaining the outcomes-focused approach in integrated working
Many people who receive support will be used to a service-
Understanding and promoting an outcomes-focused approach in integrated working
Introduction
This guide forms part of the Iriss Leading for Outcomes series. The guides are designed to support team leaders, managers and trainers to lead teams in the adoption and implementation of a personal outcomes-focused approach. The initial guide, Leading for outcomes: a guide, gives general evidence-based advice and support in leading this approach within the context of adult services.
A toolbox of resources relevant to an outcomes-focused approach in social services
Developed by Iriss in partnership with Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS), the Outcomes Toolbox brings together a range of resources and knowledge relevant to an outcomes-focused approach in the social services.
It includes:
An outcomes-focused approach with children and young people
An outcomes-focused approach in the context of parental substance misuse
Leading for outcomes: Parental substance misuse can be used in conjuction with Leading for outcomes, a guide. This guide is part of the Leading for Outcomes series and explores an outcomes-focused approach with families for whom parental substance misuse is an issue.
Exploring an outcomes-focused approach within the context of dementia
Leading for outcomes: dementia can be used in conjunction with Leading for outcomes: a guide. This guide seeks to explore how staff can be supported to effectively practice an outcomes-focused approach within the context of dementia. It provides information about dementia including key policies and legislation as well as signposts to other relevant resources.