Building healthy communities - a talk by Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network and the Centre for Welfare Reform on behalf of Inclusion East - 4th March 2019 - Newmarket

1. Health needs Citizenship
Inclusion East, Newmarket, 4th March 2019

2. Preparing for these Qs.
• When we go back home to our own local areas what can we do to
help advance people’s health?
• After we go back home what can we do to be stronger, connected
and more effective?
• What can we do to help local community groups to change their
relationship with local government?
• What can we do help local government reconfigure its relationship
with the NHS?
• What can we do to advance citizenship, political action and
voting?

3. Strange & Difficult
Times

7. Thinking about
Citizenship & Health

8. Health cannot
be separated
from power
and power
cannot be
achieved
without active
citizenship

10. Conditions for good health
1. Personal development
2. Freedom
3. Sufficient income
4. Good housing
5. Support
6. Contribution
7. Love and relationships

11. Jargon, Jargon, Jargon
• Individual Service Funds OR Not doing it all yourself
• Local Area Coordination OR starting early in community
• Place Based Commissioning OR deciding things locally
• Self Help or Peer Support OR doing things yourself
• Community Sourcing OR buy local
• Political Participation OR make yourselves powerful

12. INDIVIDUAL SERVICE
FUND (ISF)

17. LOCAL AREA
COORDINATION

19. PLACE BASED
COMMISSIONING

23. SELF HELP &
PEER SUPPORT

25. COMMUNITY
SOURCING

28. POLITICAL
PARTICIPATION

30. Come and join us…

31. Focusing on health
• What are the most important things for people with
learning difficulties locally?
• Who are our natural allies?
• What opportunities exist for influence?
• What are the 3 most important messages to support our
local work?
• What will we do next?

32. Becoming more effective
• What can we do to improve our own work?
• What are our strengths as a group?
• What opportunities are there for us locally?
• What one discipline might make us stronger?

33. Changing power systems
• What is our vision for our own community?
• Who shares this vision?
• How are we playing our part in the development of
stronger and healthier communities now?
• What can we do to change things?

34. Getting political
• What does political action mean to us?
• What fears do we have?
• What can we do despite our fears?
• Check out: https://www.citizen-network.org/sharing/
campaign/everyone-vote/