A workshop exploring how to design individualised and community-focused support for older people. Developed in partnership with ACH Group and delivered in Adelaide on 4th December 2014.
Have We Achieved Citizenship for people with Learning Disabilities?Citizen Network
This Greap Leap Lecture by Dr Simon Duffy was given to people, families and professionals, invited by Hertfordshire County Council. It explores what progress there has been to advance the real citizenship of people with learning disabilities and the challenges ahead.
The Sir Keith Wilson Oration, given at the Australian Association of Gerontology on 26th November 2014. Dr Simon Duffy explores the ideas that shape our public services and our attitude of respect towards people with disabilities and our elders. He advocates a fuller and more inclusive notion of citizenship and challenges professionals to see themselves as citizens, working on behalf of community and citizen action. He suggests that ideas like Consumer Directed Care are deeply problematic and need to be reframed around citizenship and community.
Citizenship of People with Intellectual DisabilitiesCitizen Network
This talk was given by Simon Duffy at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, in May 2014. It explores the barriers to citizenship for people with learning disabilities
Why Citizenship Matters - Lessons for Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Simon Duffy gave this talk on the importance of citizenship as an ideal and as a practical way of rethinking the purpose of social policy. This talk was given at the Achieving Full Citizenship 2015 Conference in Vancouver.
This was the first presentation in the international webinar series based around the Keys to Citizenship. Here Simon Duffy & Wendy Perez explain how the idea for the Keys to Citizenship evolved and what it means today.
Have We Achieved Citizenship for people with Learning Disabilities?Citizen Network
This Greap Leap Lecture by Dr Simon Duffy was given to people, families and professionals, invited by Hertfordshire County Council. It explores what progress there has been to advance the real citizenship of people with learning disabilities and the challenges ahead.
The Sir Keith Wilson Oration, given at the Australian Association of Gerontology on 26th November 2014. Dr Simon Duffy explores the ideas that shape our public services and our attitude of respect towards people with disabilities and our elders. He advocates a fuller and more inclusive notion of citizenship and challenges professionals to see themselves as citizens, working on behalf of community and citizen action. He suggests that ideas like Consumer Directed Care are deeply problematic and need to be reframed around citizenship and community.
Citizenship of People with Intellectual DisabilitiesCitizen Network
This talk was given by Simon Duffy at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, in May 2014. It explores the barriers to citizenship for people with learning disabilities
Why Citizenship Matters - Lessons for Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Simon Duffy gave this talk on the importance of citizenship as an ideal and as a practical way of rethinking the purpose of social policy. This talk was given at the Achieving Full Citizenship 2015 Conference in Vancouver.
This was the first presentation in the international webinar series based around the Keys to Citizenship. Here Simon Duffy & Wendy Perez explain how the idea for the Keys to Citizenship evolved and what it means today.
This slideshow documents the community service project of students at Ramona High School, the benefit of service and how it upholds human rights in the community.
Citizen Network Australia was formally launched in Perth, WA on 21st August 2017. These slides were presented by Leanne Pearman, Rosie Lawn and Simon Duffy.
This is a great aid available to help us initiate and inform such conversations. It’s in the form of a flipbook called “Service To Humanity”. Themes like “Pathway of Service”, “Twofold Moral Purpose”, “Constructive and Destructive Forces of Society”, “Educating Younger Generations”, etc. provide compelling launch pads for rich, meaningful conversations with both youth and adults.
This is a slide created for a better understanding on the topic of humanitarianism and volunteerism. This include the definition of humanitarianism and volunteerism, what is and what is not humanitarianism and volunteerism, the difference and similarity between both and the example of each.
Dr Simon Duffy, of the Centre for Welfare Reform and Citizen Network gave this talk in Madison, Wisconsin on behalf of In Control Wisconsin. He explores the values, laws and social systems that support respect for ourselves as we age. He proposes that there are dark threats that require different levels of thinking and action - we need to get back to the foundational importance of love, family and community.
This talk was part of a day long seminar with the people of Christchurch who are starting the Enabling Good Lives programme. The talk explores how full citizenship for disabled people demands a very different social system. The final slide sets out the thoughts of the group on the kind of system of Self-Directed Support that people would like to see emerge in Christchurch.
Talk for social work students at Huddersfield UniversityCitizen Network
Talk on personalisation, social justice, citizenship, individual service design and the welfare state. Given to MSc and BSc student social workers at Huddersfield University, November 2014.
Slides from a day-long workshop with My Place - a leading personalised support organisation in Perth, WA. The workshop explores the meaning of inclusion and citizenship and the threats and opportunities that lie ahead of us.
Talk by Dr Simon Duffy in Adelaide to leadership of ACH Group on the leadership challenges for those working in the aged care sector. The talk explores the dangers facing older people by failing to fully protect people's dignity and by treating people as consumers, rather than as citizens. It sets out some possible strategies for organisations such as ACH to explore.
This slide deck is my ammature try at explaining the different rules of community building. What community is, how should a community leader build and maintain a community etc.
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk in September 2018 to the National Social Care Conference in Cardiff. He argues that our concept of citizenship is confused, but the potential for creating communities of citizenship is enormous.
Slideshow from Simon Duffy's presentation to 2014 TQ21 Conference in Winchester, 16th October 2014. Talk explores the practical steps we can take to be better citizens and support each other to be citizens. It explores how service providers needs to change and become more flexible and creative.
These slides are from Dr Simon Duffy's keynote and workshop at the National Advocacy Conference in Birmingham, 13th October 2016. He explores the challenge for advocates in an age of austerity and asks whether we need to ask deeper questions about the role of advocacy in advancing citizenship for all.
This slideshow documents the community service project of students at Ramona High School, the benefit of service and how it upholds human rights in the community.
Citizen Network Australia was formally launched in Perth, WA on 21st August 2017. These slides were presented by Leanne Pearman, Rosie Lawn and Simon Duffy.
This is a great aid available to help us initiate and inform such conversations. It’s in the form of a flipbook called “Service To Humanity”. Themes like “Pathway of Service”, “Twofold Moral Purpose”, “Constructive and Destructive Forces of Society”, “Educating Younger Generations”, etc. provide compelling launch pads for rich, meaningful conversations with both youth and adults.
This is a slide created for a better understanding on the topic of humanitarianism and volunteerism. This include the definition of humanitarianism and volunteerism, what is and what is not humanitarianism and volunteerism, the difference and similarity between both and the example of each.
Dr Simon Duffy, of the Centre for Welfare Reform and Citizen Network gave this talk in Madison, Wisconsin on behalf of In Control Wisconsin. He explores the values, laws and social systems that support respect for ourselves as we age. He proposes that there are dark threats that require different levels of thinking and action - we need to get back to the foundational importance of love, family and community.
This talk was part of a day long seminar with the people of Christchurch who are starting the Enabling Good Lives programme. The talk explores how full citizenship for disabled people demands a very different social system. The final slide sets out the thoughts of the group on the kind of system of Self-Directed Support that people would like to see emerge in Christchurch.
Talk for social work students at Huddersfield UniversityCitizen Network
Talk on personalisation, social justice, citizenship, individual service design and the welfare state. Given to MSc and BSc student social workers at Huddersfield University, November 2014.
Slides from a day-long workshop with My Place - a leading personalised support organisation in Perth, WA. The workshop explores the meaning of inclusion and citizenship and the threats and opportunities that lie ahead of us.
Talk by Dr Simon Duffy in Adelaide to leadership of ACH Group on the leadership challenges for those working in the aged care sector. The talk explores the dangers facing older people by failing to fully protect people's dignity and by treating people as consumers, rather than as citizens. It sets out some possible strategies for organisations such as ACH to explore.
This slide deck is my ammature try at explaining the different rules of community building. What community is, how should a community leader build and maintain a community etc.
Dr Simon Duffy gave this talk in September 2018 to the National Social Care Conference in Cardiff. He argues that our concept of citizenship is confused, but the potential for creating communities of citizenship is enormous.
Slideshow from Simon Duffy's presentation to 2014 TQ21 Conference in Winchester, 16th October 2014. Talk explores the practical steps we can take to be better citizens and support each other to be citizens. It explores how service providers needs to change and become more flexible and creative.
These slides are from Dr Simon Duffy's keynote and workshop at the National Advocacy Conference in Birmingham, 13th October 2016. He explores the challenge for advocates in an age of austerity and asks whether we need to ask deeper questions about the role of advocacy in advancing citizenship for all.
Simon Duffy gave this talk in Helsinki on why citizenship is the proper purpose of work in social services. It describes the seven keys to citizenship.
Making Freedom Real - Two Talk on Citizenship for GloucestershireCitizen Network
The two talks were given to citizens and professionals in Gloucstershire in December 2013. They explore how freedom and citizenship are for all - including people with severe disabilities and they set out the practical challenges of making citizenship real.
Key Concepts in Social Work - a personal and philosophical meanderCitizen Network
Social Work is in the social justice business. But what do we mean by social justice? How do overcome the dangers of paternalism and institutionalisation? What do we mean by citizenship? What is the link between needs and rights?
Exploring the challenges of achieving ordinary lives and citizenship for people with learning disabilities - talk to the annual conference of the Housing & Support Alliance (HSA)
Simon Duffy talked about why money - for all its limitations - is an important element of the Keys to Citizenship - not as a replacement for Love - but as a critical supplement.
In a day long workshop at Bromley-by-Bow Centre Simon Duffy worked with a range of community activists to explore whether a pro-community welfare state was possible - and if so under what conditions. Lively discussions and important ideas emerged - although we may have to do a little more work before declaring success. Thanks to Power to Change for supporting this event.
Sam Sly explains what the idea of citizenship really means and how good providers of support are able to help people achieve it. This talk was given in Dorchester, at an event where the Citizen Network was first opened up to citizens and organisations.
Networked Energy: Energy independence for AlderneyCitizen Network
by Chris Cook and Marcus Saul, Island Power
As Research Fellows at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security, at University College, London, Marcus Saul and Chris Cook researched and developed the Pacific Natural Grid resource resilience strategy.
Here they explain how Denmark has led the way in creating sustainable networks of community-based energy production and distribution.
This has been transformative for Denmark, enabling it to become independent from the oil and gas industry’s dominance. But it is also transformative for communities, who are now creating their own energy economies.
Dr Dave Beck gave this talk for Part 5 of the ‘Grassroots Policies for Farming, Food and Wildlife’ webinar series, hosted by Citizen Network.
In his presentation Dr Beck discusses the harms caused by the monopolisation of supermarkets in the food industry. He also explores the positive possibilities of local currencies.
Dr Beck is a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester.
The webinar recording is available to watch on Citizen Network's website at: www.citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy gave this presentation at the final conference of the UNIC Project, in Brussels in September 2023, providing an overview of personal budgets and the challenges ahead.
Sabrina Espeleta of War on Want outlines the enormous and growing level of world hunger. She explains how a few global corporations control the vast majority of food production and supply and markets exploit the food market, leaving communities, especially in the Global South at great disadvantage. Local peasant farmers are now organising to achieve food sovereignty, seeking to farm in ways in harmony with nature and to meet local needs. The Global North needs to respect the rights and autonomy of these people rather than to continue the pattern of exploitation.
This presentation was given on 6 July in Part 4 of a webinar series on grassroots policies for farming, food and wildlife.
Watch the recording at: https://citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy was asked by the Mayor’s Greater Manchester Charity and UBI Lab Manchester to talk at a recent roundtable event on the relevance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to the problem of homelessness.
These are the slides from that talk. In summary Duffy argued that UBI is relevant to reducing homelessness in two slightly different ways:
1. UBI would help prevent homelessness - UBI addresses the inequalities in income and housing that create the risk of homelessness.
2. UBI would help people escape homelessness - UBI gives people a vital tool which significantly helps people change their situation in times of crisis.
Find more free resources on basic income at: www.citizen-network.org
A presentation for the One Yorkshire Committee introducing Democratic Yorkshire - a voluntary alliance consisting of a group of organisations and individuals interested in planning a better future for our County through modern democratic means secured in a written constitution.
In this presentation exploring planning law, Laird Ryan talks us through the planning process, explores what we can and can't influence and helps us consider how best to create real, organic and local alliances that make the best use of our energy.
To find out more about the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement please visit: https://neighbourhooddemocracy.org
Citizenship is our Business - The Avivo StoryCitizen Network
Avivo is one of the founding organisations in Citizen Network. they are also pioneers in self-direction and personalised support in Australia. Over the past few years they have been reorganising themselves around the principle that everyone is a citizen - and supporting everyone, including paid staff, to be citizens is their central purpose. Avivo are also leading Citizen Network's Rethinking Organisations programme and networking with other organisations on this journey.
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to Doncaster's Mental Wellbeing Alliance about the importance of thinking about what good help really means. He explored the importance of shifting power, resources and thinking upstream.
Markus Vähälä, CEO of Citizen Network, outlined the development of the cooperative as a framework to support the further development of Citizen Network as part of the 2022 Building Citizen network Together events hosted by Eberswalde University.
At BuildingCitizen Network Together in early 2022 Simon Duffy and James Lock discussed the development of Citizen Network and its current approach to membership and explored with members from all around the world next steps for its development.
These slides are from a talk Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network gave to Café Economique in Leeds, making the case for basic income. The argument set out is that UBI is one necessary part of a range of reforms necessary to support citizenship and strengthen community life. This talk preceded a (rather fiery) debate with Anna Coote of NEF who argued against UBI.
Simon Duffy gave this talk for Radical Visions on home, citizenship, institutionalisation and neighbourhood democracy. He explains why institutions are wrong and what we might be do to end the drive towards institutionalisation.
A presentation for the Estia International Confernce in 2021 from Dr Simon Duffy exploring personal budgets, citizenship and community and the challenges for services aiming to work in partnership with people with disabilities in Greece.
An example of good practice in inclusion in employment from Slovenia, shared at the Day Centres Without Walls conference, hosted by JDC in Lithuania. Day Centres Without Walls is an Erasmus+ project funded by the EU.
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
1. Citizenship & Creative Support
Talk by Dr Simon Duffy of The Centre for Welfare Reform
Day for ACH Home Care Team Advisors, 4 December 2014
2. • Why citizenship should be central
• How to achieve citizenship
• How to organise for citizenship
• How professionals can be citizens
3. For thousands of years people have
struggled to achieve citizenship - to be seen
as an equal and for the rights and duties
that go with citizenship. But, today we’ve
forgotten the true meaning of citizenship.
The welfare state, which should support
citizenship, instead treats us as tax payers,
service users, consumers or patients. This is
not just wrong, it is unsustainable.
It is time to see citizenship as the purpose of
the welfare state and to ensure our society
supports citizenship for all.
4. Citizenship is not the
whole of life. But it is
critical to the life we lead
together - in community.
If we ignore it we will find
ourselves in big trouble.
5. 3 negative questions
• If we are not enabling citizenship for others then
what are we trying to do instead?
• If we are not organised to promote citizenship then
what are we organised to promote?
• If we are not acting as citizens in our work then
what role are we playing?
7. Citizenship seems
so distant
• Politics used to mean
‘community life’
• Citizens were just ‘people of the
city’ or community (although
admittedly not all people were
allowed to be citizens)
• Now politics happens
‘elsewhere’
8. Our current understanding of
citizenship is unsustainable
• Voting - an activity that takes a few seconds every
few years.
• Passport - the ability to leave the community (and
then come back)
• Equal rights - being able to get help and protection
from others.
Citizenship can’t just be about getting
it must be about giving if it is going work.
9. Sustainable citizenship
• The ideal of citizenship must have value within the
community.
• The work of citizenship must be to practically
welcome people into citizenship.
• The conditions for citizenship must be available
to all - we must organise for it.
10. We regard wealth as being something to be
properly used, rather than as something to boast
about… Here each individual is interested not only
in their own affairs but also the affairs of the
community… We do not say that one who takes no
interest in community life is minding their own
business; we say they have no business here at
all....
... each single one of our citizens, in all the manifold
aspects of life, is able to show themselves the
rightful lord and owner of their own person, and do
this, moreover, with exceptional grace and
exceptional versatility. [Pericles]
12. • Dignity and respect are linked.
• Dignity means worth. We each have equal worth,
but sometimes our situation causes others to treat
us without worth, without respect, in an undignified
way.
• Respect means seeing someone in the right way.
• Citizenship is a way of living together as equals -
with mutual respect.
13. Mark Haydon-Laurelut and Karl Nunkoosing explored
what underpins abusive or positive relationships in
‘care settings’. They argue that:
• We tend to treat the challenges of dignity and
respect as merely a matter of acceptance or
affection - being nice.
• But it is possible to be nice to someone and yet fail
to respect them.
14.
15. • Acceptance must be combined with a positive view
of someone’s potential for contribution and the
community’s willingness to accept that gift.
• You can like them - yet protect them from life.
• You can also be positive without wanting to be with
them - controlling from a distance.
16. Alternatives to citizenship
Their analysis aligns well with philosophical thinking
about community and citizenship. Broadly the
alternatives to citizenship are:
• Individualism - protecting me or mine
• Collectivism - controlling them (workers,
consumers, service users etc.) for their own good
17. A philosopher from Mars
would hear a people
talking like rugged
individualists and
pretending they didn’t
need other people
(neoliberals).
But he would see
government taking
increasing control over
people’s lives in the
interests of their well-being
(utilitarianism).
18. The problem with
utilitarianism
• It flourishes despite deep philosophical flaws
• It dominates social science and social policy
• It seems democratic, but implies elitist control
• It’s linked to euthanasia: killing people to reduce
pain
• And eugenics: killing or breeding people to
improve happiness, race or IQ (pick your poison)
19. The citizenship alternative
• Citizen is both an independent individual and an equal
member of a community to which he or she is bound by
duties - responsibilities
• Thus citizenship opens up the door to reconciling our
fundamental need to be respected by others - as an equal
- in all our diversity.
• The dual nature of this ideal reflects the two modes of its
corruptions: liberalism (individualism) or collectivism
(statism)
• Citizenship remains a real possibility.
20.
21. We make citizenship real by
1. Finding our sense of purpose
2. Having the freedom to pursue it
3. Having enough money to be free
4. Having a home where we belong
5. Getting help from other people
6. Making life in community
7. Finding love
22. This protects our dignity
1. Our life is seen to have meaning
2. We are not on someone else’s control
3. We can pay our way - we’re not unduly dependent
4. We have a stake in the community
5. We give others the chance to give
6. We contribute to the community
7. We are building the relationships that sustain community
24. Citizenship is also very
practical
Everyone can be a citizen
Everyone can contribute
& the best support
strengthens
citizenship for all
25. 1. Purpose
• Citizen’s have a sense of
purpose - a meaningful life
• People’s sense of meaning
has many sources
• We must listen and look for
meaning in the right places
• We each have purpose - we
just don’t always know it
30. 2. Freedom
• People have a right to be free
• But we need relationships with
others to be free
• We need to provide help with
information, communication
and good representation
• A man in a desert is not free -
he’s just alone
35. 3. Money
• People need the resources
necessary to be citizens
• The chance to earn and save
• Money for services is really
the person’s entitlement
• People only do things for us
for love or money - why not
have both?
41. 4. Home
• People need a home of their
own
• That means living with the
people we want to
• Safe, secure and private
• Going into a home - means
losing your home
45. Then the old Vainamoinen put this into words:
“Strange food goes down the wrong way
even in good lodging;
in his land a man's better at home loftier.
If only sweet God would grant
the kind creator allow
me to come to my own lands
the lands where I used to live!
Better in your own country
even water off your sole
than in a foreign country
honey from a golden bowl.”
From the Finnish epic poem: The Kalevala
46. 5. Help
• Citizens need help - its not
independence that build
community but dependence
• But help must be good help
• Supporters need to
understand what good help
demands
• If you need nobody you're no
use to anybody
53. 6. Life
• Life is made by living
• Work, play, volunteering and
having fun
• Life happens in community
• But it really matters that you
are in the right community for
you
59. The lame rides a horse
the maimed drives the herd
the deaf is brave in battle.
A man is better
blind than buried.
A dead man is deft at nothing.
A Viking Poem from the Havamal
63. 7. Love
• We all need love - life without
love is hell
• Love comes in many forms
• We need to understand how to
nurture and encourage love
• Love is what creates
citizenship and new citizens
74. 1. Get good at listening for direction
2. Build relationships that liberate people
3. Get clear about entitlements
4. Respect and deepen roots
5. Be flexible - in the extreme
6. Get stuck into community
7. Look out for love
75.
76. fruitful questions flow from an understanding of your purpose
there is no tool for creativity other than your whole humanity
79. • Split into pairs
• Think about your caseload
TASK ONE
• Identify the support arrangement you are most proud of
• List the different kinds of things that the person spent their
budget upon?
80. In our best packages…
personal care
transport
social assistance
cleaning
respite
cooking/preparing/eating - together
gardering
shopping
medication
information
podiatry
exercise & dancing
equipment
OT/counselling
incontinence pads
communty linking
nursing care
physio
training & education
companionship
familiy support
holiday-accom.
surgical procedure
volunteer
decluttering
fun
moving home
IT
modifications
advocacy
peer support
employment
0 10 20 30
83. What do you
want to do
with your life?
What is really
important to
you?
What does a
good life for
you?
What do you
want to share?
What are
your
priorities?
What would you
like to be doing
in the future?
Who is really
important to
you?
What support
do you want
to build on?
What are
you part of?
Who do
you trust?
What have you
always wanted
to do?
How do you
want to
contribute?
What lights
your fire?
84. • Split into pairs
• Pick an ACAT level
TASK TWO
• Imagine that you have the level of need you associate with
that level
• But you are still the same person, same family, interests etc.
• Support each other to design the best support you can for
yourself with your year’s budget.
• Imagine the funding can be used with absolute flexibility.
• Provide a breakdown of your use of the budget.
• Challenge yourself to get best value from your money.
85. 1. Who is the main person you would
ask to represent you?
2. What will you being doing with
your life?
3. Who will you get support from?
4. Where will you live?
86. Freedom Network 52 Prof. 1
Life FT 0 PT 6 Vol. 25 Educ. 34 Love 51
Help Natural 52 PA 31 Service 54 Vol. 22
Home Family 24 Friends 1 Alone 37 Service 0
People More 30 Less 2 Unsure 6 Same 23
Happy Yes 49 No 2 Unsure 12
87. 300
225
150
75
0
Who will represent you?
Network Professional
88. 120
90
60
30
0
What will you do with your life?
FT Work PT Work Vol. Work Education Love
89. 200
150
100
50
0
Who will help you?
Natural PA Service Voluntary
90. 160
120
80
40
0
Where will you live?
Family Friends Alone Service
91. How important will the people in your be life in the future?
160
120
80
40
0
More Less Unsure Same
92. 100
75
50
25
0
Will you be happy?
Yes No Not Sure
93. Did you think of anything that -
as an ACH advisor you would
have had to think twice about
before agreeing?
94. How does reflecting on your own
life make you think about your
own role as an advisor?
95. Is there anything ACH group do
to make it easier for your to do
the right thing by people?
96.
97. Christ does not call his benefactors loving or charitable. He calls them
just. The Gospel makes no distinction between the love of our
neighbour and justice. In the eyes of the Greeks also a respect for Zeus
the suppliant was the first duty of justice. We have invented the
distinction between justice and charity. It is easy to understand why.
Our notion of justice dispenses him who possesses from the obligation
of giving. If he gives, all the same, he thinks he has a right to be
pleased with himself. He thinks he has done good work. As for him who
receives, it depends on the way he interprets this notion whether he is
dispensed from all gratitude, or whether it obliges him to offer servile
thanks.
Only the absolute identification of justice and love makes the co-existence
possible of compassion and gratitude on the one hand, and
on the other, of respect for the dignity of affliction in the afflicted - a
respect felt by the sufferer himself and the others.
Simone Weil
98. There are eight degrees of charity, one higher
than the other. The highest degree, exceeded by
none, is that of the person who assists a poor Jew
by providing him with a gift or loan or by accepting
him into a business partnership or by helping him
find employment - in a word, by putting him where
he can dispense with other people's aid. With
reference to such aid, it is said, “You shall
strengthen him, be he a stranger or a settler, he
shall live with you” (Lev. 25:35), which means
strengthen him in such manner that his falling into
want is prevented. [Maimonides]
99. Maimonides’ 8 rules of giving
1. Don’t look down on people - respect them as your equal
2. Don’t deny people what they really need
3. Don’t wait until someone has to ask
4. Don’t force people to beg
5. Don’t act like you are doing them a favour
6. Don’t expose people to scorn or stigma
7. Don’t distinguish givers or receivers
8. Don’t let people fall into need in the first place
100. fruitful questions flow from an understanding of your purpose
there is no tool for creativity other than your whole humanity