Perth and Kinross Healthy Communities Collaborative

Community Led Health: Engaging Communities – Changing Lives

Aims : To give local people skills and confidence to work in partnership with professionals from a range of agencies and organisations Objectives : To use these partnerships to effect changes in communities, which would result in improvements in health care and social well being

The Community Action Model

(NPDT 2001) Topic Stimulates Desire for other topics Successful action Enhances Community Development

Who Are The Teams Made Up Of ?

  Community Members   Voluntary and Charitable Organisations   Health and Local Authorities

The Formula

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Understand the need

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Come up with some ideas

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Test those ideas (PDSA)

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Understand what works and do more of it!

Act

• What changes are to be made?

• Next cycle?

Study

• Complete the analysis of the data • Compare data to predictions • Summarize what was learned

Plan

• Objective • Questions/predictions • Plan to carry out the cycle (who, what, where,when) •Plan for data collection

Do

• Carry out the plan • Document problems and unexpected observations • Begin analysis of the data

Report findings Five main areas of influence

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Discrimination

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Relationships

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Physical Health

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Poverty

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Participation in meaningful activity

Benefits of this work

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Reduce isolation

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Promote Mental Wellbeing

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Promote active ageing

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Improve social capital

The HCC meets a number of National and Local Policies including

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Healthy Ageing – A Challenge for Europe - December 2006

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All Our Futures – Planning for a Scotland with an ageing population, March 2007

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National Standards for Community Engagement – May 2005

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NHS Tayside Health Equity Strategy “ Communities in Control” 2009

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2006-2020 Working Together for Perth & Kinross: Community Plan

Appendix 2 Program

: Healthy Communities Collaborative

Situation:

Lunch clubs

INPUTS OUTPUTS

ACTIVITIES PARTICIPATION  2 x ½ day staff  Hire of hall  Purchase of ingredients  Cooking equipment  Games equipment  Mobile phone  Lap top with remote internet  Partnership contributions = Stalls/info from Care and Repair, Tayside Fire, Community Police SCARF, Pensions agency, DISIP Monthly lunch club Light lunch Indoor kurling, Wii interactive computer game 1:1 mobile phone tuition 1:1 support to browse the internet Staff x 2 Older people from local community Partnership agencies Information stalls with opportunity to get specialist individual advice

Logic Model OUTCOMES / IMPACT

SHORT TERM/PROJECT Provide socialising opportunities in local community Provide exercise opportunities Provide an opportunity to build relationships Improved confidence at using mobile phones Improved confidence using computers Increased knowledge of services and benefits available LOCAL/MEDIUM TERM

Participation in Meaningful Activity

Somewhere to be, something to do

Physical Health

Participants become more active

Relationships

people look out for one another and become less isolated

Discrimination –

reduce inequality about new technology

Poverty

People are more aware of support agencies and what they provide NAT/LONG TERM Older people in the project area have improved mental health and wellbeing in later life (Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland) The gap in health inequalities in the project areas is reduced (NHS Tayside Health Equity Strategy)