Creating Choice & Tackling Multiple Exclusion Homelessness Ann Forsyth Homelessness & Asylum Service...
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Creating Choice & Tackling Multiple Exclusion Homelessness Ann Forsyth Homelessness & Asylum Service Manager Hunter Street [email protected]
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Creating Choice & Tackling Multiple Exclusion Homelessness
Ann Forsyth
Homelessness & Asylum Service ManagerHunter Street
AimsTo create a space to consider choice and to question
our practice / our behaviour by;
1.Considering how creative we are in the services we provide and in the way we provide them to promoting choice.
2.Considering the implications in the choices we are offered and the choices we offer others.
3.Considering how individually and as organisations we can work in a choice based way.
Creating, Create1. to cause to come into being, as something unique that
would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
2. to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.
3. to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design:
Dictionary.com
Choice1. Choice involves mentally making a decision; judging the
merits of multiple options and selecting one or more of them. One can make a choice between imagined options (‘what would I do if...?’) or between real options.
2. It involves preference.
3. If arrival at a choice included more complex motivators, cognition, instinct and feeling can become intertwined
Wikipedia
Choice can be simple or complex
Simple Choice
Complex Choice
Considerations in creating choice
Power Information
Risk
Aspirations Empowerment
Person centered
Priority Decision making
Ability
Capacity
Options
Round Table Discussion
If to create choice we have to do something unique as it won’t just happen. What steps can you take
1. As an Individual
2. As an organisation
to give choice now and in the long term to service users?
Quick wins & longer term
