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Positive conversations, meaningful change: learning from Animating Assets
Dr Rachel A Harris#ScotPublicHealth #PublicHealthHour 2nd March 2016
• What are assets?• How about asset-based
approaches?• Why Animating Assets?• Research sites• What happened• What we learned• Find out more• Over to you
Overview
“any factor (or resource), which enhances the ability of individuals, groups, communities, populations, social systems and/or institutions to maintain and sustain health and well-being and to help to reduce health inequalities” (Morgan, Davies & Ziglio, 2010)
Morgan A, Davies M, Ziglio E. Health assets in a global context. Springer, London; 2010
Health ‘assets’
Asset-based approaches
• Values skills, knowledge & connections• Collective resources that protect & support• Realised and mobilised through actions, connections and
participation• Protective/promoting factors to buffer against life’s stresses
– individual level: resilience, self-esteem, sense of purpose– community level: supportive networks, community cohesion– organisational level: resources promoting physical, mental & social
health• Place-based, relationship-based and citizen-led• Redressing balance – needs and strengths
Why Animating Assets?
• Supported development of asset-based approaches to range of health and social issues – identified by local communities or partnerships
• Process of engagement, facilitation, co-creation and learning, that also applied theory from:– Action research– Appreciative inquiry
• Fresh ways of thinking about assets – real time / real issues• Call for more evidence on impact of asset-based approaches
Research sitesMilton, NW Glasgow
Barmulloch & Balornock, NE Glasgow
Edinburgh South
Edinburgh South West
Communities of Liberton, Gilmerton, Burdiehouse and Oxgangs.
Communities of Wester Hailes, Oxgangs, Currie and Balerno.
Girvan, South Ayrshire – Associate site Craigneuk, Lanarkshire – Associate site
Total Neighbourhood East, Edinburgh – Associate site
Supporting community capacity building in
Glasgow
Engaging with young people in a meaningful
way in Edinburgh
How we practised asset-based working
“Good links, good
relationships, finding
solutions in an amicable way.”
“Connected through
relationships.”
“Ice-breakers at the start of the meetings, I get a real lift from
them.”
“Seeing people at the
conversation café and here
today gives me hope.”
“…value of using a range of group work techniques to help people
look at the world differently.”
“…energy in the group for working
together and creating change.”
"What was originally an idea but it’s actually become a way of working with us now, which is about engagement with
young people in a meaningful way."
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What we learned about the nature of asset-based working
“there’s also something about taking our staff on a personal journey to reframe their thinking”
“showing we will be responsive... taking part does make a difference.”
Reframing towards a fresh perspective
“people led it, as opposed to it being talked down, it maybe was a more bottom-up approach, and I think people came to have a sense of equality as opposed to being told”
Developing a common agenda
“What I saw at first was people being unsure and not really quite getting the concept, me included. As we gradually worked through it together ... it helped create and build the relationships”
Recognising assets
there is “a whole network out there … that has made me think in terms of the role that I’ve got, about who is out there and who is working with young people and families locally and bringing all of them together”
Making connections to mobilise assets
Allow time
“You don't need to depend on
the council when you've
got a network of committed
people and organisation”
“We were able to attract other
partners that maybe we
hadn’t thought about”
“The fact that we’ve been recognised by you – that makes us hopeful and keeps us going”
“All the organisations here are putting the community first, and looking at how people can benefit from their project”
Signs of change
What else we learned along the way…
• The practical realities of adopting asset-based approaches?– National ambition v reality of local practice– Do asset-based principles reflect reality?– Creating the conditions - what enables and
constrains asset-based practice?– Levers for change
Find out more
• Research report:– Positive conversations, meaningful change:
Learning from Animating Assets http://tinyurl.com/AnimatingAssets
• Digital stories– Animating Assets reflections from Milton– Animating Assets in Barmulloch and Balornock
https://www.youtube.com/user/gcphonline
Over to you
• How have you applied asset-based approaches? (Or share an examples that has excited you from elsewhere.)
• What capacities, skills or values are needed to support asset-based working?
• How might organisations enable this kind of working?
The research team
Scottish Community Development Centre• Fiona Garven• Cathy Sharp • Joanna Kennedy• Kate McHendry• Elspeth Gracey
Glasgow Centre for Population Health• Jennifer McLean• Rachel Harris• Charlotte Mitchell• Valerie McNeice
The team