Trust & Mutual Respect
Supporterman vs The Substituter
This video features actors from the Outside Voices Theatre Company and shows how everyone needs a little support to make decisions. Sometimes people need help understanding information and help understanding their options. However, no one should make a decision for another person or substitute a person’s own decision.
Wellsprings of Person Centred Planning
John O’Brien talks about the history of the meaning of Person-Centered Planning and acknowledges the hard dead layers of habits of social exclusion. John describes how to find wellsprings of possibility by listening deeply to explore how people might experience more belonging, greater respect, choice, control and opportunities to share their gifts with their families and communities.
Being Me Being You: How I need you to be, to be with me.
This reader has been made to help people and their supporters to talk together about the different ways we can be with each other. It aims to help start a conversation about the different ways people with developmental disability and complex communication needs want others to be around them.
WAiS Supported Decision Making Principles
The Principles of Supported Decision Making in an easy to understand one page resource.
The 3 R’s of Social Care Reform
How constructive risk taking, respectful relationships and a sense of reciprocity characterised a positive response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper draws upon the TLAP Insight Group report, A Telling Experience and subsequent meetings with regional ADASS branches, as well as interviews with people for the case studies. It also draws on some of the rich conversations from the Social Care Future Festival, the National Children and Adults Services Conference (NCASC), as well as the ‘fireside conversations held with TLAP Partners, all at the end of 2020.
The Relationships Framework
This kit of resources is designed to help councils sustain and enhance the community relationships that emerged during Covid in a way that empowers rather than controls citizens. It is also intended to help councils look ahead to reimagine their organisations and services with relationships at their heart.
Relationships Project – Turning to The Light
Relationships are essential to all of us, in all walks of life. From schools to GP practices and big businesses to grassroots organisations, everything works better when relationships are nurtured. Find out more about the importance of good relationships through our bank of case studies or our collaborative blog.
A World of Good Relationships
The Relationships Project have set out a plan in this Prospectus that takes us through the months of reflection and recuperation post Covid, into a period of renewal and new building and on towards a vision for a generation. More than ever, the big questions are all about relationships. Their substance and character will determine the direction and quality of our lives. Imagine a place where good relationships are the central operating principle, the starting point for all decisions, the mechanism by which change is realised, the outcome we all strive towards. Think of your place, an organisation perhaps, a neighbourhood, a school, a council: what would change?
Ben – A Supportive and Friendly Attitude
Ben describes how his friendships create a safety net of trust and respect.
Jack – Open and Respectful to All
Jack talks about being treated with respect to enable a sense of trust and belonging in the community.
Supporting Decision Making Principles
The Principles that surround Supported Decision Making.
Right Relationships
Michael Kendrick speaks at a presentation from Family Advocacy’s 2012 Odyssey Conference.
Is it possible to create a partnership between families and services that really works?
Towards Inclusive Cities and Social Sustainability
A scoping review of initiatives to support the inclusion of people with intellectual disability in civic and social activities. The aim of this scoping study was to map key concepts underpinning interventions to include people with intellectual disability in their local community, and the main sources and types of evidence available.
Belonging and exclusion in the lives of young people with intellectual disability in small town communities
The aim of this research was to investigate the lived experiences of belonging and felt exclusion for young people with intellectual disability living in regional (small town) communities. This article focuses on the findings from the project about how the young people’s experiences of connections to place, space and people influenced their felt sense of belonging and exclusion, and from this, implications for developing social policy which is more responsive to their priorities and lived experience.
Our Town: Catalysing Communities to Lead Local Change
Our Town is demonstrating the role that community plays in shaping mental health and wellbeing, and the roles that communities can play outside of formal service delivery to increase mental wellbeing. Our Town communities are demonstrating the shifts that are possible when you work at the level of local cultures, mindsets and economies. The initiative gives towns and regions the power and opportunity to define what’s best for their community, so that they can reclaim their mental wellbeing.
Co Design – Reflective Resource
In 2020, LELAN and TACSI worked in partnership with people from the South Australian lived experience community to co-create a Philosophy of Care to inform the new Urgent Mental Health Care Centre (UMHCC) in Adelaide. This was commissioned by the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist SA. This reflective resource will be helpful for people looking to understand how ready, willing and able they are to embark on an authentic co-design process.
SDM through Community Partnerships
As part of the Racial Equity and Supported Decision-Making Initiatives, Center for Public Representation worked alongside community partners to pilot trainings on SDM and other alternatives to guardianship for family members and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities within underrepresented and underserved populations in Massachusetts.
Our Lives, Our Voices: Reclaiming the Narrative
In the year that Ireland makes its first report to the United Nations under the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities(UNCRPD) there a number of issues relating to the full and active participation of disabled people in Irish society as equals. The media plays a crucial role in shaping discussions in relation to disability. “Our Lives, Our Voices” is the Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI) position paper, based on the facilitated discussions disabled activists held in December 2021 and their thoughts on how disabled people are currently represented, how disabled people would like to be represented and changes that are needed in the development and production of media in Ireland.
Seven Threads Prompt Book
This book provides practical prompts to help non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations engage First Nations Peoples and foreground First Nations’ wisdom, so that together, we can further reconciliation, self-determination and change.
Friends and Purpose: Evaluation of Camerados Public Living Rooms
Camerados is a movement of people in communities across the country helping each other through tough times and coming together in places and spaces called public living rooms (in this report referred to as PLRs) created and run by local people where they can form relationships that will lift them through a bad day or a life crisis. They are used by people at any end of the scale of tough times, from stressed students to bereaved relatives to homeless people. This evaluation has taken a mixed-methods approach, gathering quantitative and qualitative data to build a rich narrative on how, and why, the PLRs are making a difference to the people who are using them, and in the organisations and communities in which they are held.
Knowing as Fundamental to Interpreting Preferences
Dr Browning shares a story from her own research.
Understanding Will and Preferences
Dr Browning explains how the decision maker’s will and preferences can be understood and supported.
A Different Starting Point
Dr Browning suggests a different way of thinking about how we respond to people living with a disability.