A life of my own choosing,
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NE ADASS Learning set, January 16 2012.
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A life of my own choosing,
- 1. A life of my own choosing Ageing Well through the lens of Asset Based Community Development Cormac Russell, ABCD Institute
- 2. ABCD in a nutshell
- 7. Transition from village communities to the money economy
- 8. The Dilemma . . . Children and Families have deficiencies & needs Children and Families also have skills and talents On which should we focus most?
- 9. Fundamental Needs Security Autonomy Belonging Competence ? Emotional & Material Agency. Independence. Sense of efficacy in the world. Plus authenticity Community, Family & Friends, as giver & receiver Ability to sustain tasks of choosing, to contribute. Security Belonging Competence Autonomy Russell, C (2010)
- 11. Festival Day in Thornton Heath-Sept 18, 2011
- 12. And on the day people were invited to share their gifts….
- 13. This is Shirley with her neighbour...Shirley is a neighbourhood connector
- 14. Why have a meeting when you can have a party?
- 15. The connectors want to discover hidden treasure and build relationships….
- 16. They had already knocked on doors, and heard peoples stories like Mr and Mrs Ahmed…..
- 17. Paul Macey who is a wonderful Community Builder, and is facilitating the process on behalf of Croydon Voluntary Action and Croydon NHS sat with Peggy and heard her story….
- 18. And Peggy and Mr & Mrs Ahmed were connected
- 19. The connectors have experienced the power of connecting people…
- 20. And they have been mapping local associations too….
- 21. And seeing the huge potential for connecting these assets also….
- 22. And the older people will have plenty to teach the kids as well…
- 23. Bingo!!!!
- 24. Being intentional about the process of engagement, mapping: a) associations; b) capacity/contribution and then invitation
- 25. What gifts and talents would you like to share?
- 26. Wow! That many? What would happen if we had these conversations with everyone in Thornton Heath?
- 27. Young people are leaders of today, not tomorrow, we invite them in. The message on the day: Thornton Heath needs you, we can not do this without you…
- 28. And they stayed for the vision….
- 29. News flash: the streets of Thornton Heath were filled today with young people (and the young at heart) making fun…and Community
- 30. Even strangers are Twice as Likely to Assist as You Think Studies by Flynn & Lake (2010) of Columbia University show that people underestimate how likely others are to help by as much as 100%
- 31. ‘ You can’t know what you need, till you know what you have…’
- 32. The glass is half full…..
- 33. Social inclusion? Where it matters? Participation Friendship Intimacy Economic Exchange
- 34. Full circles indicate capacity to deal with life and are a powerful measure of health in our society.
- 35. Our Solutions are often not fit for purpose
- 36. Real change…
- 37. Person Centered Work The move is from services to clients to supports for citizens Community Centered Work Health
- 38. Doing work the old way
- 40. Before you reap the harvest…..
- 41. Strengths-based Community Development Methodology Discovering Strengths Organizing & Mapping Linking and Mobilizing Community Driven Initiatives Sustaining the Process
Editor's Notes
- The Asset Based approach looks at things through a different lens: it tries to understand where the opportunities are, and what strengths can be built on.
- Of course there are problems and a lot of needs to be addressed in Communities throughout Manchester and the Foundation’s money and resources are needed to do that. But there are also a lot of talented local people who as well as having problems have talents, resources and passion. As thing currently stand most of our attention is on the problems and little on the untapped capacities and resources in local communities. ABCD doesn’t ignore the fact that there are needs, it simply argues that there are assets as well, and if we’re serious about development we should give them attention.
- Too often the communities have received funding the terms of the funder, this is a transactional relationship, and is not respectful or reflective of the untapped potential that is to be found within every community. The fact is a community has more assets than anyone person or organisation can know. Nobody is talentless, everybody has something to contribute to developing a vibrant connected community. In the same way in spite of labels like disadvantage, marginalised etc, low income communities have hidden treasures waiting to be tapped.
- Lets look more closely at this. Starting with needs. Sometimes when people present ABCD they present it as a polemic between needs and assets. To me that somewhat of a superficial interpretation. ABCD is not suggesting that we ignore needs in preference for assets, but that we take care as to how we understand needs. Most psychologists now agree that there are four fundamental needs. See slide… So ABCD begs the question how do we as helpers address for example security needs in a way that does not harm autonomy, competency and belonging. Can you think of any examples from your own life experience when someone in an honest effort to help inadvertently undermined the need for autonomy, competence or belonging of the person or community they were endeavouring to assist?
- One that recognises that ‘we can never know what a community needs, until they know for themselves what they have’. We as a Foundation can start a new more empowering trend in how we use our assets to support communities to build real power for change, leaving behind us a legacy of competent, capable citizens working together in a way that includes everyone; instead of clients who depend solely on services and programmes. In this way the vision of Forever Manchester can come alive in every neighbourhood, home and organisation in the city. Imagine a Manchester where we all identify, connect and mobilse our assets towards a shared vision…..Forever Manchester..
- But this kind of change has to go with the grain of life and has to happen where people live their lives: in neighbourhoods.
- By doing this we change the old way of working which put us in the driving seat of the transaction.
- To a process of grass roots grant making and community building that puts citizens in the led. Of course we want to do this in a way that does not simply give gate keepers more power, and this is why Asset Based Community Development as a process matters so much: it shows us a clear way that everyone can be included and everyone’s voice can be heard.
- For policy makers as well as traditional community leaders the new starting point in my humble option is at the fire side, the one on one conversations, and the neighbourhood organising, that’s where Britain will begin to coproduce and re-weave its wellbeing and future in terms of its economic prosperity, it environmental sustainable and the welfare of all its citizen in real partnership with Government, the Third Sector and the Corporate Sector, that to my mind is the path from so-called Broken Britain to a truly Caring Society. But they cannot hope to reap that harvest until they plough the soil, and I think that’s where people like us come in. Thank you!