- The document discusses asset mapping and provides examples of how it could be used in different contexts like working with primary care teams, developing personal networks, helping self-management champions, and maintaining mobility and community contact for older adults. - It gives an example of how an asset mapping session could be structured and provides tips on materials, potential participants, and follow-up activities that could result from asset mapping. - The overall document serves as a guide for facilitating asset mapping conversations and discussions in community settings.

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Thinking about asset-mapping
Notes for a conversation

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Topics to tackle together? contexts
It’s more than an
event: planning and
follow-through
What would a
Martian see on
the day?
Collecting the
data
sharing
examples
Mapping as a
platform
And then
maintaining the
data
[practicalities]
A couple of key things

3. You might be:
…working with Primary Care teams wanting to work better with their
local community*
* The ‘Improving Links’ Project: http://www.improvinglinks.scot.nhs.uk/

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Mapping personal networks. Discussed in helpful detail at:
http://www.iriss.org.uk/resources/social-assets-action-evaluation-report?
…developing work with people’s personal
networks, on access to services…

5. …helping self-management champions get going…

6. …talking with someone about their social network
and support…

7. …or even helping older people think about maintaining their
mobility and community contact, getting out and about.

8. All of these contexts involve health assets: what are health assets?
With thanks to ID&eA ‘A glass half-full: how an asset approach can improve community health and well-being’

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A key principle:
“Communities have never been built upon
their deficiencies.
Building communities has always depended
upon mobilising the capacities and assets of
people and place.”
Kretzman and McKnight (1993) Building Communities from the inside out

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Asset-mapping in Annan
http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk/index.php/archives/1583

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ALISS in Action – collecting data
The technology at work:
• A short (1 min 20 sec) overview
• A wee bit longer (4 mins 46 sec)
‘screencast’ of the ALISS Engine being
used to build a local info collection.
– It’s silent (not everyone has good sound
available on their PC/Laptop) but includes
commentary in subtitles.
– Local links if no web access:
Overview; building a collection

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ALISS in Action – maintaining data 1/3
• ALISS is not building a duplicate copy
of original sources, so no need to fret
about keeping things like opening
times, contact details, etc in kilter
• But services can change their focus
radically, they can move locations, and
websites can be re-structured too (it’s
called ‘link rot’)…

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ALISS in Action – maintaining data 2/3
What’s the task?
– Building a collection (new resources; adopting others)
– Keeping individual resources shiny
Looking at the internal structure of a typical resource:
• Does the link still work (or has the original source deleted
the page or re-structured their website?).
• Has the key focus of the resource changed radically
(often noted in the free text description)?
• Have key aspects changed – sometimes people create tags
with the name of the activities one can get involved with, for
example
• Has the resource moved location?

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ALISS in Action – maintaining data 3/3
Who might be involved within and what
context? Sources of possible involvement/help to
look out for locally as it were. In no order of
priority:
– Local librarians
– Anyone who runs an IT evening /adult
learning class.
– School students –
– Local Associations of e.g. Mental Health.
– ‘Community Engagement’ teams
– Topic-specific ‘champions’
– Volunteering-opportunity agencies

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It all starts with conversations
Examples:
– Kirkintilloch – an assets-based approach to MH & WB
Commissioning
– Craigmillar – Improving GP: community Links
– Nairn - Improving GP: community Links
– Annan – Innovation workshops with the Community Engagement
Team
– Service-providers
– In a tent
– NE Angus
– Blairgowrie and environs, on a snowy day
– Personal networks
– Thinking about Mobility

19. As part of taking an assets-based approach to
commissioning services for mental health and well-being:
• The East Dunbartonshire CHP, with its partner
agencies, wanted to involve people with its
commissioning process
• So they asked IRISS and Snook to facilitate a
series of workshops where people talked with
each other about what kept them well
• It’s all written up in detail here:
http://www.iriss.org.uk/resources/using-assets-approach-
positive-mental-health-and-well-being

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Here, we were adding
notes to photos of local
assets, and keeping
tabs on any we hadn’t
included yet

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During the conversation, looking at a
photo that one of the project team had
taken of the local canal, one
participant talked about his enjoyment
of walking here.

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Afterwards, we
found a handy
web page

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The mention of the canal-bank reminded another participant of the
local Seagull trust cruises on the water, which they’d enjoyed…

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…which in turn prompted another participant to recall getting chips for their
trip…and the ever-friendly staff.

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And here’s a
web page for it
we found later. It
mentions the
chips!

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Nairn: improving GP - community Links

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Asset-mapping in Annan
http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk/index.php/archives/1583

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‘Adding value to assets’
http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk/index.php/archives/1654
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centres
cafes
walks
groups
parks
schools
views
choirs
classes
churches
gardens
cycling
dancing

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16CL6bKVbJQ

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Blairgowrie, on a snowy day

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http://www.aliss.org/users/5034f4ffbaa2b1393600005b/

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Mapping personal networks. Discussed in helpful detail at:
http://www.iriss.org.uk/resources/social-assets-action-evaluation-report?

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IRISS development of iPad app:
See also ‘Social Mirror’: RSA Project

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Thinking about mobility
options
A social process

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At the LTCAS member organisation
The comms/engagement manager is
thinking about her group activities
calendar…
– …there’s a gap next month.
– How’s about using that ‘Mobility Options for
Older People’ toolkit??
– Now, where did I put it?…

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Images: Snook on Flickr

46. Where do we tend to go, and how do we get there and back?

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How about putting
these journeys
into a plan?

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49. Plotting the overall group journeys, from the workshop

50. Turning assessment into intention…

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…and collating an
aggregate picture of
individual intentions

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Sharing assets
Publishing – some examples:
– Dundee – Maryfield Medical Centre ‘lens’ on
ALISS
– Maryfield Medical Centre’s own site: patient
services page
– ‘Community Links’ example access point
– South Edinburgh neighbourhood resources
(remember to check the ALISS box beneath the map)

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What to do once you’ve mapped?
• It’s not a one-shot process – everyone has
something to contribute based upon their own
experience. So you can run lots of sessions
• Yes there’s the maintenance of the information
to think about. Even though it’s more or less just
a pointer to original resources, this still has to be
maintained.
• But one thing that asset-mapping can prepare
the ground for is ‘people-powered service-
design’. The next slides show some scenes from
an innovation workshop series we ran.

56. Service design
http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk/index.php/archives/1598

57. Open Innovation Workshops
people were empowered by the design process

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Getting started with asset-mapping
Some prompts

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Potential local contexts
Think about:
• Commissioning services
• Working with Local Area Co-ordinators
• Voluntary org regular get-togethers with their folk
• Self-management awareness sessions
• Your own learning opportunities
• GPs and social prescribing/community signposting
• Day centre activities/Care home activities
• Carers’ get-togethers
• School students hunter-gathering in the community

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An example* session structure
• talk in pairs about what helps to keep you well
• share your discoveries with your group (N tables of 8 -10 people)
• 10 minutes of feedback - people shout out things such as meeting friends, walking etc
• Now think about your area - share examples of support, organisations, places around here - what
does your area have to offer? Map these (post-its, sketch map, etc)
• [Natural break] Circulate around the room and take a look at other tables - see what others have
discovered. Lots of meeting and chatting and sharing at this point. An opportunity here to share
existing sources (directories) and mention other work underway.
• [Reconvene] Give a brief description of ALISS tech - not a demo, no slides - keep it to a
description about what it could do to help.
• [optional but v helpful] Now that you’ve shared your local knowledge and discovered new
resources through others (and heard a little about ALISS bringing it all together online) discuss in
groups what you would like to do with this information... we gave groups a large sheet of paper to
develop/list ideas together.
• Distil your thoughts into one idea to ‘pitch’ to everyone.
• Provide time - a few minutes towards the end – for people to talk a little about the services that
they provide - it makes a rare opportunity to talk to this gathering of key community connectors! 4
or 5 v brief descriptions of new services that have recently started or are about to start, fit well with
this context.
* These notes are derived from a write-up of an afternoon
session with Craigmillar Primary Care team and local
community resources in autumn 2012

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Materials you might find handy
Include:
• Tables
• Lining-paper
• Masking (or parcel) tape (to hold the paper down)
• Post-its
• Pens
• Local map (optional, folk are often as happy making a
sketch)
• Photos (nice to have as conversational prompts)
• Shortbread! (refreshments generally)

67. Other people who could help
(if asked nicely)
Include:
• Librarians
• Community (e.g. ‘Impact’) arts
• Students (esp Design)/senior school
• Vol sector providers
• Minister
• Carers’ groups
• And more…

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What might mapping lead to?
• Commissioning process?
• Service-design proposals?
• Signposting/social prescribing?
• LiU involvement??
• What other activities might flow from
mapping?
– E.g. Learning journeys & signposting – visiting
local resources & talking with them