Asset-Based Community Development

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1 Asset-Based Community Deveopment Using what s strong to dea with what s wrong, and making what s strong stronger. The community is a spontaneous pace But systems Hey! Let s make are not! things happen! OK! WE coud... OUCH!!... Training Programmes 2016

2 The Approach ABCD stands for Asset-Based Community Deveopment, an approach deveoped by Professors John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann in Chicago. After decades of research they set up the Asset-Based Community Deveopment (ABCD) Institute in 1996 at Northwestern University and have supported the growth of ABCD across the word every since. ABCD considers oca assets as the primary buiding bocks of sustainabe community deveopment. It offers a robust evidence-based framework for socia change, chaenging us to consider the foowing questions: What is it that communities can do best? What do communities require hep with? What do communities need outside agencies to do for them? The ABCD approach heps us to find answers to each of these questions. It can aso show us how to make better use of the resources that we a have or have access to, and how to support one another to use them to the benefit of whoe communities. ABCD is the way by which we can buid heathier, safer, prosperous and more incusive communities. The Training Offer We have yet to find a sector, topic, organisation or community in which ABCD cannot be appied. It s the beauty of the approach. Its reevance to everyone and to pretty much anything in our communities, means that we Nurture Deveopment are invited to train, create and impement deveopment programmes with hundreds of organisations across a wide range of areas. Our one and two day workshops can focus on the foowing areas: 1. Whoe Community Transformation. 2. Heath and We Being. 3. Socia Care. 4. Safer Communities. 5. Housing & Community Spaces. 6. Ageing we in pace. 7. Recovery.

3 Our Team Pau Macey has deivered presentations, trainings and workshops across the UK in paces such as the Ise of Wight, Bangor and Ayrshire. He aso supports our work in Thurrock. Pau Macey Pau has been a Community Buider for in Croydon Vountary Action for over 4 years. His work in Croydon has payed a major part in a range of community-driven activities, incuding the annua Thornton Heaths Arts Week and the Vaey Park Heathy Living Space. Pau has been a Community Deveopment Worker for over 25 years. He has worked as an equaities consutant, a trainer, and a journaist. He has written for pubications that incude The Voice, The Guardian and The Independent. Jennine Baiey has been mentored by Cormac Russe since 2010 and she now mentors and coaches other Community Buiders in areas such as Cirencester, Thurrock and Matson. Jennine Baiey Jennine has deivered training sessions and workshops for commissioners, councis and vountary sector organisations. She has aso worked as a Community Buider in various ABCD initiatives with Croydon Vountary Action. Her work in the West Croydon Socia Recovery initiative deveoped a movement of citizen-ed action, auded by the Greater London Authority as a huge success. She is aso a Director of Success Through Art, which works to support chidren and young peope to gain quaifications through the arts. If you have come to hep me, you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your iberation is bound up with mine, then et us work together Lia Waston

4 The Trainers Pau Macey has deivered presentations, trainings and workshops across the UK in paces such as the Ise of Wight, Bangor and Ayrshire. He aso supports our work in Thurrock. Pau Macey Pau has been a Community Buider for in Croydon Vountary Action for over 4 years. His work in Croydon has payed a major part in a range of community-driven activities, incuding the annua Thornton Heaths Arts Week and the Vaey Park Heathy Living Space. Pau has been a Community Deveopment Worker for over 25 years. He has worked as an equaities consutant, a trainer, and a journaist. He has written for pubications that incude The Voice, The Guardian and The Independent. Jennine Baiey has been mentored by Cormac Russe since 2010 and she now mentors and coaches other Community Buiders in areas such as Cirencester, Thurrock and Matson. Jennine Baiey Jennine has deivered training sessions and workshops for commissioners, councis and vountary sector organisations. She has aso worked as a Community Buider in various ABCD initiatives with Croydon Vountary Action. Her work in the West Croydon Socia Recovery initiative deveoped a movement of citizen-ed action, auded by the Greater London Authority as a huge success. She is aso a Director of Success Through Art, which works to support chidren and young peope to gain quaifications through the arts. Interested in reading more... Cick on the icons beow for inks to bogs, artices and resources to we think you' find usefu:

5 The Experience We bring the foowing to our training: We are recognised thought eaders Our thinking on ABCD has been pubished in academic journas and pubications in the UK and abroad. Cormac continues to work with Professor John McKnight and other members of the ABCD Institute facuty on the ongoing deveopment of the approach. We have a conceptua and on-the-ground understanding of ABCD that ensures that we can advise and train at both poicy and practice eves. We are estabished trainers in both the UK and abroad During 2015 we have deivered over 100 workshops and keynotes to 10,000+ peope. We have worked on a diverse range of subject matters, incuding pubic safety, pubic heath, incusion, chidren and young peope, oder peope, socia care, community housing, prison reform, recovery and many others besides. A of our workshops are informed by what we are earning in neigbourhoods throughout the UK and beyond, where we have spent severa years working side by side with practitioners and oca residents. We understand what works (and what doesn t): Since 1996 we have buid up practica knowedge and experience in the impementation of ABCD and other strengths-based approaches in Europe, Africa and North America. We have had successes and faiures and beieve in sharing our earning from both. There is no one right way to do ABCD and we have earned, through experience, how to navigate the different socio-poitica environments. We are doing it in a broad range of communities across the UK today. Currenty, as we as deivering workshops, we are working directy with Community Buiders, oca residents and commissioners to focus on what is strong, not what is wrong. This aows us to bring rea exampes and stories of how ABCD is working in a wide variety of communities. Learning by doing Our workshops are dynamic and interactive. We beieve that peope change their ives by doing, not by passivey istening, and our workshops refect that beief. During our sessions we introduce and use the toos, activities and exercises that we have deveoped, to bring ABCD aive in communities and neighbourhoods. The community is a spontaneous pace But systems are not! Hey! Let s make things happen! OK! WE coud... OUCH!!...

6 The Experience Some of our training commissioners workshops Big Lottery Fund, Loca Councis: Gasgow, Ise of Wight, Bristo, Thurrock, etc ABCD Mastercass, Groengin Congress. Scheidam, The Netherands, West London Menta Heath Trust, Nationa Socia Care, Department of Heath, Macmian Cancer Support, Conferences & keynote addresses Keynote address to Cambridge Counci and Community Engagement Team Directors at Cambridgeshire County Counci. Cambridge, UK, Keynote address at Nationa Federation of Socia Housing. Copenhagen, Denmark, Heath and Socia care conference at Housing and Community Care. Perth, UK, Power to the Peope Conference keynote address for consistence. Preston, Austraia, Faciitation of the conference for Southern Heath NHS Foundation Trust. Southampton, UK, CoAction Journeys in Partnership Conference. Cork, Ireand, Keynote address to Cambridge Counci and Community Engagement Team Directors at Cambridgeshire County Counci. Cambridge, UK, Keynote address at Nationa Federation of Socia Housing. Copenhagen, Denmark, Heath and Socia care conference at Housing and Community Care. Perth, UK, Power to the Peope Conference keynote address. Preston, Austraia, Faciitation of the conference for Southern Heath NHS Foundation Trust. Southampton, UK, The European Socia Network Conference. Dubin, Ireand, Aggregating Community Hep to Strengthen Famiies. Singapore, Singapore, The Haygarth Pubic Heath Lecture: Community Assets Determine our Heath & Webeing Far More than Access to Heathcare. Chester, UK, Nurture Deveopment Contact us at:

7 Whoe Community Transformation An Overview Whoe community transformation shifts the focus from one that is on separate target groups, such as the frai edery, youth at risk, ex prisoner etc., to one that connects peope positivey regardess of age or abe. The best context within which to connect peope this way is by working at neighbourhood eve. Neighbourhoods are the paces where potentiay everything can come together. In this workshop we show you how to use your resources to do that. Using ABCD principes and practices a Community Buider identifies, connects and mobiises oca assets, and supports the deveopment of a community wide vision for transformation that ooks 20 years into the future. This approach offers a number of additiona benefits: 1. It heps agencies work outside sios and beyond administrative boundaries. 2. The coser we get to peope s door steps they more they engage. 3. It motivate enduring change through citizen ed and owned action. Buiding Communities from Inside Out A One-Day Introduction to ABCD What wi you earn? This workshop wi: Give you an understanding of the history of ABCD, reating it to your experience of community deveopment. Identify the six buiding bocks or assets of community buiding. Expore how these buiding bocks can be more effectivey identified, connected and mobiised to action in oca neighbourhoods. Examine the reationship between institutions and communities using the Geometry esson (Circes and Trianges). Identify the ABCD Toos for Change: Learning Conversations & Asset Mapping. What wi you be abe to do after this workshop? Understand how ABCD can be taken into action in neighbourhoods in a way that stays true to the principes of the approach.

8 Whoe Community Transformation Whoe Community TransformATion from Inside Out A Two-Day ABCD Workshop What wi you earn? This workshop wi: Give you an understanding of the history of ABCD, reating it to your experience of community deveopment, focusing on incusion. Hep you identify where and how ABCD can change communities and peopes ives using the 12 Domains of Change exercise. Show you how to bring ABCD to ife in a neighbourhood using ABCD principes and practices. Use stories and case studies of ABCD in action from our Learning Sites, in the UK and around the word, with video input from citizens, Community Buiders and commissioners. Invove you in activities and exercises, e.g. Asset Mapping and Learning Conversations that you can then use to introduce ABCD to the neighbourhoods where you ive and/or work. Show you how to spread the approach across an entire county. Hep to make the strategic inks to strengths-based commissioning, strengths-based organisationa management, and unpack poicy impications in reation to heath, community safety, crimina justice, ageing we in pace, and environmenta and economic sustainabiity. Show you how to evauate the outcomes of ABCD. What wi you be abe to do after this workshop? Take ABCD into action in iving neighbourhoods in a way that is respectfu of the oca context; and utimatey create safer, heathier, more economicay and environmentay vibrant paces to ive. You wi be abe to use what s strong in the neighbourhood where you ive and/or work to dea with what s wrong, but aso make what s strong, stronger. I beieve that Nurture Deveopment is uniquey paced to provide thought eadership and practica support in promoting more pace based, citizen centred approaches throughout the UK and beyond. I highy recommend Nurture Deveopment and am proud to have them as strategic partners. Professor John McKnight, Co-Director of the ABCD Institute, Northwestern University, Iinois.