Transcript CDHN Pathways to Health

CDHN Pathways to Health
• Seamus Ward, General Manager of
Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum
• Healthy Living Centre in Derry
• Presentation on our experience of
Building Social Capital
Building Social Capital – A
definition
• ‘Social capital means the set of norms,
institutions and organisations that promote
trust and cooperation among persons in
communities and also in wider society’.
(Durston, J 1999)
• ‘the social networks and the norms of
trustworthiness that arise from them”
(Sander et al 2006)
Building Social Capital – Why?
• The core concept of social capital is that
social networks matter, both for those in
the networks as well as sometimes for
bystanders as well.
• At the core of social capital is trust
AntiDiscrimination
and Equality
Social
Justice
Working/
Learning
Together
Values and Practice
Principles of
Community
Development
Collective
Action
Community
Empowerment
BBHF- How we developed Social
Capital
• Development of programmes into projects
(OPSF/Pink Ladies/Born to Run)
– Support and corporate development to enable
community ownership
– Encourage successful programmes and the
people involved to ‘take final ownership’ of
programmes
BBHF- How we developed Social
Capital
• Development of participants to become
facilitators
– Training and support offered to participants to
offer services for and in our community.
– Local people gaining experience of facilitation
to gain confidence and experience
– Encourage facilitators to accept more
responsibility for promotion and public
speaking
BBHF – Social Capital
2007 -2015 what’s changed?
2007
Advertised and recruited specialist
facilitators on needs basis for
programmes
2015
Commitment to train and develop
volunteers and participants (we
look within)
Limited staff resources
Large bank of local, trained volunteers
for health related facilitation
Passive recipients
Building on peoples learning and
experiences and putting this to
work
Delivering services
Supporting things to happen and
catalyst change
Engagement with the community
Community part of the decision
making
In a nutshell….
• In 2007 BBHF had a bank of 5 facilitators,
3 for physical activity and 2 for Older
peoples services. Two were from the local
area. We now have a bank of 25
facilitators. 23 are local people. 23 are
previous participants in our programmes.
They are all part of the fabric of BBHF.
How has the approach helped
• Increased number of
participants
• Increased number of
classes
• Additional ‘next step’ for
participants who have life
changing experiences
that can help others
• Closer relationship with
the community
• Redirecting local £ to
local people
Consideration for Social Capital in
Health
• Community-led health is an “approach” to
health improvement rather than a
particular “technique” or “method”. It is
fundamentally different from the provision
of community-based health services as it
is concerned with community, or
neighbourhood, as the focus of, and
mechanism for, change rather than
community as a setting for health practice
Questions?