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Social Inclusion
Bromley Stories
Develop wants your Bromley stories!
If you have a personal story to tell about Social Inclusion, and you'd like other people to learn from it, please send it to us at info@developbromley.com, preferably as a Word document. It can be long or short, don't worry, we can always edit it down to size if needed!
If you want other people to contact you for more information, perhaps because they would like to develop a similar project in Bromley, then please give us the contact details that you would like to share, and we can act as intermediaries.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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The provision of ‘safe space' for people with mental health problems is an important function of day services, but what it means and how it is created is by no means clear cut, and may be different for different people.
So what are the key features and characteristics of ‘safe space', what are the different ways it can be provided and how can it fit within a socially inclusive day service?
‘Defining Safe Space in Mental Health Day Services', which was recently produced through discussion between service users, trustees and staff at Bromley Mind, goes some way to answering these questions and taking forward a conversation about ‘safe space' in day services.
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At a an all-day conference in July 1997, people who had used mental health services and members of families of people with a mental health disability in Bromley talked frankly with professionals and policy makers about improvements they would like to see in local services. Senior people from Social Services, Housing, the Health Authority and Oxleas NHS Trust highlighted the importance of learning from service users and their carers experience in identifying what would matter most in implementing the local mental health strategy.
The conference, which included more than 90 participants representing the whole mental health community in Bromley, agreed a "Values in Action Framework" to be used as a compass for planning and funding decisions and to guide professional staff in delivering services. The Framework was designed to ensure that in the future, those people using mental health services would have better opportunities to recover from their difficulties and live valued lives in the community.
The Values in Action work has a direct pathway to the creation of Develop and many of the same people continue to be involved to this day.
The work of Values in Action and the two further VIA conferences held in 1998 and 1999 were presented at the Mental Health Foundation and Sainsbury Centre on-line conference on "The Role of Values in Mental Health" in 2003. The authors of the paper were original members of the Positive Futures Development group which facilitated the process that came to be known as Values in Action - they are Fabian Davis (Current Chair of Develop), Judy Turner-Crowson (Trustee of Community Options and author of the original VIA report) and Phil Jones (Current Recovery Co-ordinator with Community Options). All three continue to be partners within Develop. The original report and the paper presented at the on-line conference can be found below:
CSIP awards where Develop's Fabian Davis was shortlisted for "New ways of working" in Social Inclusion.
Listing can be found on page 21.
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Ben Taylor and Sandi Lowing of Bromley Mind wrote an article for Community Care regarding Day Service Modernisation in Bromley.
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This article from the Life in the Day Journal published by Pavillion Press is by Fabian Davis, Phil Jones and Sue Alder who are all members of Develop in Bromley. The article explores some service development practices that can help to promote social inclusion through day services modernisation.
It is based on their experiences as service providers and service user consultant in the the 1990's and the early days of Develop. This work laid some of the foundations for thinking about what has become a relatively successful transition from segregated, buildings-based all in-house day care services operating during working hours only to ones that are more individualised, person-focused and operate at times and in places used by the general public thus providing more individual, person-to-person support to enable recovery and quality of life in the wider community.
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Showcasing recognition of Develop's excellent work in promoting social inclusion.
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This is a time of huge change in the relationships between public sector bodies and the communities they serve. The momentum of change grows ever faster: the greater involvement of communities in shaping public services, and of community organisations in delivering those services, presents huge challenges for us all.
This publication features a range of case studies including Develop (on page 15) that show how different partnerships between Statutory and Third Sector organisations are working to meet these challenges.
In February 2007 Develop was nominated as a top London partnership by the London Councils & the Cabinet Office.
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Members of Develop held a PATH (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope) day to consider where mental health and social inclusion was going over the next few years on July 14th 2005.
The day was facilitated by Paula Edmondson of the National Development Team who also produced the nice graphics for the report which you can download from here.
The PATH is being reviewed in the light of Develop's social inclusion action plan for Bromley during 2008.
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Develop’s Fabian Davis talked about Mental Health Services and Community Engagement to Improve Social Inclusion at a national conference on Improving Adult Mental Health Services on the 15th of July, 2009.
During this presentation, Fabian discussed the background and history of the Develop project and the website. This was well received by all who attended and it is thought that the day raised Develop’s profile very successfully.
Presentations and packs:
Powerpoint presentations from 2001, 2002 and 2009(converted to PDF), charting the development of Develop, its policy and evolution.
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The Developing Valued Lifestyles Partnership (Develop) is an informal consortium of local organisations, mental health service providers, people with mental health problems, their families and associates who are all working together to promote social inclusion for people with mental health problems in the London Borough of Bromley.
Develop is co-ordinated by the Bromley Social Inclusion Forum which is currently reviewing the current action plan which you can download from here.
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Article on the evolution of Develop extracted from the NHS Choice and Mental Health Programme newsletter:
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Final report to the NCCRM published in 2006, including contributions made by Develop's Fabian Davis.
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This paper on the potential roles for governors and lay members of NHS Foundation Trusts in promoting social inclusion was drawn up by Dr. Fabian Davis (Chair of Develop), Mike Edwards (Director of Horizon House - Oxleas), Davina Sellick (Choices in Mental health Project Manager - Oxleas) and Amie Barker (PA to Fabian Davis) in response to the Oxleas NHS Trust's application for Foundation status.
These ideas formed the basis for a National Social Inclusion Programme project known as Communities of Influence published by Pier in 2009 (see adjacent listing for the full publication) in which Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust played a considerable role.
Further information about Communities of Influence can be found on the www.socialinclusion.org.uk website.
Conference held in July 2008 by Survivors of Depression in Transition (SODIT), in which Develop's Fabian Davis was one of the speakers for the day.
His listing can be found on page 7.
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Psychosocial News (which then became Outlook), was the newsletter of Develop's predecessor, the Bromley Psychosocial Rehabilitation Forum, and was published between 1998 and 2000.
You can download the full archive from the links below:
Whole systems approach to socially inclusive person centred clinical practice for people with severe and enduring mental illness, written by Develop's Fabian Davis.
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