David O'Brien feels passionate about social justice, human rights, empowering communities, and transforming healthcare. He has lived experience with addiction, poverty, and the criminal justice system. He is now in recovery and mentors others. He wants to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion on the Equality and Diversity Council by drawing on his lived experience and community engagement work. He has been involved with the Greater Manchester Values Group since 2011, contributing to initiatives on recovery, lived experience, sustainability in healthcare, and mindfulness.
The Centenary Care Trust provides support to cancer patients and those with mental illnesses in Muzarabani, Zimbabwe. The Trust works with over 5,000 young people and local organizations to establish over 200 projects in the next 3 years to benefit mentally ill and cancer-affected communities. The Trust aims to rebuild confidence, independence, and optimism for recovering individuals and enable their reengagement in education and employment through various social, educational, and income-generating projects. Evaluations show the Trust is effective in improving happiness, socialization, confidence, and a sense of belonging and normalcy for those recovering from cancer or mental illness.
This document profiles 4 volunteers (Angela, Nicole, Mildred, and Margaret) and the organizations they volunteer with (Warmhearts Palliative Caregivers, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Alzheimer's Society of Kitchener-Waterloo, and Brockville General Hospital). It discusses the benefits these volunteers provide to patients, families, caregivers, and the healthcare system by reducing loneliness and isolation, maintaining health, and supporting organizations with limited resources. Volunteer centers like Volunteer Sudbury and Volunteer Action Centre help support these volunteer efforts through training, resources and connecting volunteers with opportunities.
Human rights and citizenship in community mental healthVMIAC
The document discusses human rights and citizenship in community mental health. It makes four key points:
1) Human rights are not separate from quality and safety in mental health services. Limiting rights is emotionally harmful.
2) Thinking must evolve to view mental health experiences as meaningful reactions rather than just symptoms, and give consumers leadership roles.
3) Only services that support personal recovery through diverse bio-psycho-social options and are led by consumers should be funded.
4) Achieving equality, by addressing violence, discrimination and disadvantages consumers face, is important for mental health and rights.
Dawn Farm began in 1973 as a long-term residential treatment program for addiction, funded solely through donations. Over time it expanded its services but its culture drifted, becoming more hierarchical and focused on rules. In the late 1990s, Dawn Farm underwent a cultural change, focusing on identifying and removing barriers preventing individuals from joining the recovering community. It now emphasizes outreach programs, transitional housing, and helping people integrate into the community through the principles of recovery coaches.
Melinda Smith relies on government support for her daily living needs due to her disabilities. She outlines some of the challenges she faces including not having enough support hours to meet her needs as she ages, difficulty obtaining home modifications, and not qualifying for certain services due to being employed. A quality support system for her would recognize her changing needs, provide more support hours and help pay for necessary medical treatments to maintain her quality of life and employment.
This document discusses issues related to mental illness and the treatment of those living with mental illness. It begins by comparing modern expectations of being a "superhero" to living with a mental illness, noting that daily tasks can be courageous acts for those with mental illnesses. It then discusses how people with mental illnesses have questions about their treatment but may be discouraged from asking or labeled as difficult. Finally, it advocates for more humane, community-based approaches to mental healthcare that incorporate creativity, spirituality and humanity.
This document summarizes The Florence Prescription book, which provides guidance on building a positive healthcare culture focused on ownership. It discusses how adopting the values and principles from the book helped transform the culture at Midland Health. Key results included improved patient satisfaction scores, reduced nurse turnover, improved patient safety outcomes, and a more positive reputation in the community. The book emphasizes building an "invisible architecture" of core values and focusing on culture change by changing individual behaviors and mindsets.
WestCare's mission is to empower those they serve through a process of healing, growth, and change. They are dedicated to continually improving and strengthening the quality of their services. WestCare addresses a variety of at-risk populations through multiple programs, including substance abuse treatment, mental health services, and transitional housing for homeless youth. The Alpha Zeta Phi program provides housing and support services to help pregnant and parenting homeless youth gain life skills and independence.
The Centenary Care Trust provides support to cancer patients and those with mental illnesses in Muzarabani, Zimbabwe. The Trust works with over 5,000 young people and local organizations to establish over 200 projects in the next 3 years to benefit mentally ill and cancer-affected communities. The Trust aims to rebuild confidence, independence, and optimism for recovering individuals and enable their reengagement in education and employment through various social, educational, and income-generating projects. Evaluations show the Trust is effective in improving happiness, socialization, confidence, and a sense of belonging and normalcy for those recovering from cancer or mental illness.
This document profiles 4 volunteers (Angela, Nicole, Mildred, and Margaret) and the organizations they volunteer with (Warmhearts Palliative Caregivers, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Alzheimer's Society of Kitchener-Waterloo, and Brockville General Hospital). It discusses the benefits these volunteers provide to patients, families, caregivers, and the healthcare system by reducing loneliness and isolation, maintaining health, and supporting organizations with limited resources. Volunteer centers like Volunteer Sudbury and Volunteer Action Centre help support these volunteer efforts through training, resources and connecting volunteers with opportunities.
Human rights and citizenship in community mental healthVMIAC
The document discusses human rights and citizenship in community mental health. It makes four key points:
1) Human rights are not separate from quality and safety in mental health services. Limiting rights is emotionally harmful.
2) Thinking must evolve to view mental health experiences as meaningful reactions rather than just symptoms, and give consumers leadership roles.
3) Only services that support personal recovery through diverse bio-psycho-social options and are led by consumers should be funded.
4) Achieving equality, by addressing violence, discrimination and disadvantages consumers face, is important for mental health and rights.
Dawn Farm began in 1973 as a long-term residential treatment program for addiction, funded solely through donations. Over time it expanded its services but its culture drifted, becoming more hierarchical and focused on rules. In the late 1990s, Dawn Farm underwent a cultural change, focusing on identifying and removing barriers preventing individuals from joining the recovering community. It now emphasizes outreach programs, transitional housing, and helping people integrate into the community through the principles of recovery coaches.
Melinda Smith relies on government support for her daily living needs due to her disabilities. She outlines some of the challenges she faces including not having enough support hours to meet her needs as she ages, difficulty obtaining home modifications, and not qualifying for certain services due to being employed. A quality support system for her would recognize her changing needs, provide more support hours and help pay for necessary medical treatments to maintain her quality of life and employment.
This document discusses issues related to mental illness and the treatment of those living with mental illness. It begins by comparing modern expectations of being a "superhero" to living with a mental illness, noting that daily tasks can be courageous acts for those with mental illnesses. It then discusses how people with mental illnesses have questions about their treatment but may be discouraged from asking or labeled as difficult. Finally, it advocates for more humane, community-based approaches to mental healthcare that incorporate creativity, spirituality and humanity.
This document summarizes The Florence Prescription book, which provides guidance on building a positive healthcare culture focused on ownership. It discusses how adopting the values and principles from the book helped transform the culture at Midland Health. Key results included improved patient satisfaction scores, reduced nurse turnover, improved patient safety outcomes, and a more positive reputation in the community. The book emphasizes building an "invisible architecture" of core values and focusing on culture change by changing individual behaviors and mindsets.
WestCare's mission is to empower those they serve through a process of healing, growth, and change. They are dedicated to continually improving and strengthening the quality of their services. WestCare addresses a variety of at-risk populations through multiple programs, including substance abuse treatment, mental health services, and transitional housing for homeless youth. The Alpha Zeta Phi program provides housing and support services to help pregnant and parenting homeless youth gain life skills and independence.
Merav Dover: Integrated care in Southwark and LambethNuffield Trust
Merav Dover describes the work of the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC) team. This aims to change clinical practice towards a more holistic, preventative approach. This presentation was given at the Nuffield Trust Health Policy Summit in March 2014.
This document provides an employee handbook for direct support professionals working with individuals who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. It outlines job responsibilities, core principles, policies, procedures, and guidelines for maintaining professional boundaries, transportation, communication, and caring for customers with specific medical conditions. Key responsibilities for DSPs include assisting customers with daily living activities while promoting independence, maintaining customer safety, and ensuring customers are involved in community activities. The handbook also details codes of ethics, dress code, handling of customer funds, reporting requirements, and acknowledgement of policies.
Saath is a suicide prevention organization in Ahmedabad, India. It was founded in 1998 to provide emotional support to those in distress and prevent suicide. Saath operates entirely through volunteers and provides free counseling services. Research conducted by Saath found the leading causes of suicide among youth are educational pressure and failed relationships. To address this issue, Saath suggests reforming India's education system and encouraging development of coping skills and awareness among youth, parents, and institutions.
This document summarizes and discusses different pathways to addiction recovery. It contains 3 articles:
1. The first article discusses how recovery was traditionally viewed as a single pathway process but research now shows there are diverse pathways including medication-assisted recovery, harm reduction, secular recovery, and faith-based recovery. It argues treatment facilities should support multiple pathways to better help people recover.
2. The second article discusses "transformational change" as a sudden, profound pathway to recovery different from the staged change model. It provides lessons on understanding and supporting people who experience transformational change.
3. The third brief article discusses the "pink cloud" phenomenon in recovery and how a conversion experience can create a new self without substance
This document summarizes research into the level of awareness and impact of Attendance Allowance (AA) in the North East of England. The research found that: 1) Many recipients were previously unaware of AA or did not think they were eligible, finding the application process difficult without help from an advice center; 2) AA has made a positive difference to recipients' lives by helping with costs of care, transport, social activities and more; 3) There is still a stigma around claiming benefits due to beliefs ingrained from previous generations. Recommendations include tackling stigma through myth-busting, providing more information about AA in medical settings, and exploring how to target friends/family of those who may be eligible.
I know why the caged bird sings: Human rights issues in mental health systemsVMIAC
Outlines consumer / survivor perspectives on common human rights issues in mental health systems, and outlines opportunities for change.
Presentation by Indigo Daya, VMIAC Human Rights Advisor, at The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) conference 2018.
This document provides guidance on how individuals in recovery can advocate for addiction issues and policies while respecting the anonymity tradition of 12-step groups. It explains that anonymity refers to not publicly identifying one's membership in a particular group, but that recovered individuals can speak about their own recovery experiences. The document offers tips on effective messaging and provides examples of how others advocate without compromising anonymity. It aims to empower more people in recovery to add their voices to policy discussions and help reduce stigma.
The document summarizes Second Genesis, a non-profit organization that provides substance abuse treatment. It discusses their use of therapeutic communities where individuals help each other through treatment. It highlights their success rates and programs for women and children. The chairman and executive director express gratitude for the support that allows them to provide services and help clients choose a life of recovery.
Social workers take the important first steps to help people in need. There are three main types of social workers: 1) mental health and substance abuse social workers who help those struggling with addiction or mental illness, 2) medical and public health social workers who assist families dealing with medical conditions, and 3) child and family support social workers who work to keep families together and protect children. Social workers do challenging work to improve people's lives, such as helping those struggling with homelessness, addiction, poverty, abuse, and illness. They are dedicated to giving people another chance at a happy life.
Reflecting on mental health consumer-survivor-expatient movementIndigo Daya
The document provides a summary of a presentation on reflections from the consumer-survivor-ex-patient movement. It discusses the diversity of experiences within the movement, including different views on treatment experiences and priorities. It also reflects on challenges such as a lack of influence, barriers faced by consumer workers within the mental health system, and how to build unity while embracing diversity. The presentation considers strategies for enacting change both from inside and outside the system, as well as strengthening the movement.
This document discusses the benefits of independent advocacy support for cancer patients and their caregivers. It provides quotes from patients and caregivers about the challenges of navigating cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care without support, and how an advocate helped by listening without judgment, explaining information, accompanying them to appointments, addressing issues with care, and empowering them. The advocate offers continuity, builds confidence, and helps manage both the emotional and practical difficulties of cancer. The document concludes by providing contact information for Dorset Macmillan Advocacy.
The document describes the services provided by the Trauma Resolution Center (TRC), which offers a holistic, research-based model for providing trauma-specific treatment to individuals of all backgrounds. The TRC utilizes individual and group treatment methods such as Traumatic Incident Reduction, breathwork, yoga, and psychoeducation to help people recover from traumatic experiences like crime, violence, and accumulated stress. It provides services to both children and adults, including advocacy, medical care, and community training, with the goal of empowering individuals and increasing community resiliency.
Is trauma informed care really possible in mental health services?VMIAC
This document discusses whether trauma-informed practice is possible in public mental health services. It begins by providing context about the presenter and their organization which advocates for mental health consumer rights.
The presenter then outlines three main reasons why trauma-informed practice is not currently possible in public mental health services: 1) it is being co-opted and misunderstood, 2) the scale of change needed is huge, and 3) many current practices directly contradict trauma-informed principles. Some specific examples of how services violate human rights and replicate traumatic experiences are provided.
Finally, the presenter suggests some steps that can be taken to move towards greater trauma-informed practice, such as learning from consumer/survivor advocates
This document provides information about careers in human services. It discusses how human services professionals work to improve lives by addressing issues like quality of care, accessibility, and coordination of services across different organizations. Some key areas of focus for human services professionals include assisting the elderly, children and families, immigrants, the homeless, veterans, people with disabilities, those struggling with addiction or who have criminal records. The document outlines educational and career pathways for entering the human services field, including undergraduate and graduate degree programs in human services or related areas.
Suzie reflects on how the TLC program changed her view of leadership and made her aware of microaggressions. She realized the importance of connecting with people from diverse cultures and watching what she says to avoid inadvertent microaggressions. Suzie's goals are to become a dentist and manage her own company, join the pre-dental society, and attend a Christian program on campus. The TLC program taught her how to have difficult conversations by listening without interrupting and being respectful of others' views. For her campus engagement hours, Suzie participated in a cooking competition, yoga classes, and volunteering at an art center, learning skills like teamwork, self-care, and respecting others
Determined to redefine the living standards of elderly populace, Athulya is celebrating the 1st Year of Senior Care Success. This anniversary special edition brings you the important aspects in advanced senior care such as re-imagining ageing with enhanced quality of life, effective communication with the elderly and the relation between nutrition and ageing.
Mental Health Ireland Annual Conference 14 - Prof Agnes Higgins - Recovery a ...Mental Health Ireland
The document discusses recovery from mental health challenges. It notes that recovery is a process, not an event, and involves re-establishing a positive identity. Recovery means different things for people who use services, families, practitioners, and society. It promotes positive messages that people can recover and live meaningful lives in the community with social support. The presentation calls for a more empowering, partnership-based approach where services work to make themselves redundant by promoting independence, choice, and community integration for all.
Deliverables deck created for pro bono cause consulting client, Food & Friends through Georgetown University Public Relations & Corporate Communications program.
BRAC is a non-profit organization founded in 1972 in Bangladesh that aims to empower villagers, especially women, through various development programs. At the heart of BRAC's philosophy is empowering villagers, especially women, to run programs without BRAC's assistance. In Jamalpur, BRAC has helped organize women's cooperatives, education programs, and family health programs run by the village women themselves to make the villages economically independent.
Partha Pratim Mondal is applying for a position in the visual effects industry. He has 13 years of experience in animation and VFX working on films, television series, and commercials. Some of his experience includes matte painting, concept development, modeling, and texturing. He has worked on international Hollywood projects. Mondal is a strong team player who has experience working with various software. He is looking for a career opportunity with growth potential where he can utilize his technical and artistic skills.
This document provides a review of models for reducing handoff blocking probability in wireless cellular networks. It begins with an introduction that describes handoff blocking and the tradeoff between reducing new call blocking probability and handoff blocking probability. It then provides background on GSM and WCDMA cellular networks. The main body reviews several related works that proposed methods like prioritizing handoff calls over new calls using queuing strategies, signal prediction priority queuing, and calculating handoff priority based on signal strength. The goal of these models is to prevent dropped calls and improve quality of service by better managing handoffs and call admissions.
Merav Dover: Integrated care in Southwark and LambethNuffield Trust
Merav Dover describes the work of the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care (SLIC) team. This aims to change clinical practice towards a more holistic, preventative approach. This presentation was given at the Nuffield Trust Health Policy Summit in March 2014.
This document provides an employee handbook for direct support professionals working with individuals who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. It outlines job responsibilities, core principles, policies, procedures, and guidelines for maintaining professional boundaries, transportation, communication, and caring for customers with specific medical conditions. Key responsibilities for DSPs include assisting customers with daily living activities while promoting independence, maintaining customer safety, and ensuring customers are involved in community activities. The handbook also details codes of ethics, dress code, handling of customer funds, reporting requirements, and acknowledgement of policies.
Saath is a suicide prevention organization in Ahmedabad, India. It was founded in 1998 to provide emotional support to those in distress and prevent suicide. Saath operates entirely through volunteers and provides free counseling services. Research conducted by Saath found the leading causes of suicide among youth are educational pressure and failed relationships. To address this issue, Saath suggests reforming India's education system and encouraging development of coping skills and awareness among youth, parents, and institutions.
This document summarizes and discusses different pathways to addiction recovery. It contains 3 articles:
1. The first article discusses how recovery was traditionally viewed as a single pathway process but research now shows there are diverse pathways including medication-assisted recovery, harm reduction, secular recovery, and faith-based recovery. It argues treatment facilities should support multiple pathways to better help people recover.
2. The second article discusses "transformational change" as a sudden, profound pathway to recovery different from the staged change model. It provides lessons on understanding and supporting people who experience transformational change.
3. The third brief article discusses the "pink cloud" phenomenon in recovery and how a conversion experience can create a new self without substance
This document summarizes research into the level of awareness and impact of Attendance Allowance (AA) in the North East of England. The research found that: 1) Many recipients were previously unaware of AA or did not think they were eligible, finding the application process difficult without help from an advice center; 2) AA has made a positive difference to recipients' lives by helping with costs of care, transport, social activities and more; 3) There is still a stigma around claiming benefits due to beliefs ingrained from previous generations. Recommendations include tackling stigma through myth-busting, providing more information about AA in medical settings, and exploring how to target friends/family of those who may be eligible.
I know why the caged bird sings: Human rights issues in mental health systemsVMIAC
Outlines consumer / survivor perspectives on common human rights issues in mental health systems, and outlines opportunities for change.
Presentation by Indigo Daya, VMIAC Human Rights Advisor, at The Mental Health Services (TheMHS) conference 2018.
This document provides guidance on how individuals in recovery can advocate for addiction issues and policies while respecting the anonymity tradition of 12-step groups. It explains that anonymity refers to not publicly identifying one's membership in a particular group, but that recovered individuals can speak about their own recovery experiences. The document offers tips on effective messaging and provides examples of how others advocate without compromising anonymity. It aims to empower more people in recovery to add their voices to policy discussions and help reduce stigma.
The document summarizes Second Genesis, a non-profit organization that provides substance abuse treatment. It discusses their use of therapeutic communities where individuals help each other through treatment. It highlights their success rates and programs for women and children. The chairman and executive director express gratitude for the support that allows them to provide services and help clients choose a life of recovery.
Social workers take the important first steps to help people in need. There are three main types of social workers: 1) mental health and substance abuse social workers who help those struggling with addiction or mental illness, 2) medical and public health social workers who assist families dealing with medical conditions, and 3) child and family support social workers who work to keep families together and protect children. Social workers do challenging work to improve people's lives, such as helping those struggling with homelessness, addiction, poverty, abuse, and illness. They are dedicated to giving people another chance at a happy life.
Reflecting on mental health consumer-survivor-expatient movementIndigo Daya
The document provides a summary of a presentation on reflections from the consumer-survivor-ex-patient movement. It discusses the diversity of experiences within the movement, including different views on treatment experiences and priorities. It also reflects on challenges such as a lack of influence, barriers faced by consumer workers within the mental health system, and how to build unity while embracing diversity. The presentation considers strategies for enacting change both from inside and outside the system, as well as strengthening the movement.
This document discusses the benefits of independent advocacy support for cancer patients and their caregivers. It provides quotes from patients and caregivers about the challenges of navigating cancer diagnosis, treatment, and care without support, and how an advocate helped by listening without judgment, explaining information, accompanying them to appointments, addressing issues with care, and empowering them. The advocate offers continuity, builds confidence, and helps manage both the emotional and practical difficulties of cancer. The document concludes by providing contact information for Dorset Macmillan Advocacy.
The document describes the services provided by the Trauma Resolution Center (TRC), which offers a holistic, research-based model for providing trauma-specific treatment to individuals of all backgrounds. The TRC utilizes individual and group treatment methods such as Traumatic Incident Reduction, breathwork, yoga, and psychoeducation to help people recover from traumatic experiences like crime, violence, and accumulated stress. It provides services to both children and adults, including advocacy, medical care, and community training, with the goal of empowering individuals and increasing community resiliency.
Is trauma informed care really possible in mental health services?VMIAC
This document discusses whether trauma-informed practice is possible in public mental health services. It begins by providing context about the presenter and their organization which advocates for mental health consumer rights.
The presenter then outlines three main reasons why trauma-informed practice is not currently possible in public mental health services: 1) it is being co-opted and misunderstood, 2) the scale of change needed is huge, and 3) many current practices directly contradict trauma-informed principles. Some specific examples of how services violate human rights and replicate traumatic experiences are provided.
Finally, the presenter suggests some steps that can be taken to move towards greater trauma-informed practice, such as learning from consumer/survivor advocates
This document provides information about careers in human services. It discusses how human services professionals work to improve lives by addressing issues like quality of care, accessibility, and coordination of services across different organizations. Some key areas of focus for human services professionals include assisting the elderly, children and families, immigrants, the homeless, veterans, people with disabilities, those struggling with addiction or who have criminal records. The document outlines educational and career pathways for entering the human services field, including undergraduate and graduate degree programs in human services or related areas.
Suzie reflects on how the TLC program changed her view of leadership and made her aware of microaggressions. She realized the importance of connecting with people from diverse cultures and watching what she says to avoid inadvertent microaggressions. Suzie's goals are to become a dentist and manage her own company, join the pre-dental society, and attend a Christian program on campus. The TLC program taught her how to have difficult conversations by listening without interrupting and being respectful of others' views. For her campus engagement hours, Suzie participated in a cooking competition, yoga classes, and volunteering at an art center, learning skills like teamwork, self-care, and respecting others
Determined to redefine the living standards of elderly populace, Athulya is celebrating the 1st Year of Senior Care Success. This anniversary special edition brings you the important aspects in advanced senior care such as re-imagining ageing with enhanced quality of life, effective communication with the elderly and the relation between nutrition and ageing.
Mental Health Ireland Annual Conference 14 - Prof Agnes Higgins - Recovery a ...Mental Health Ireland
The document discusses recovery from mental health challenges. It notes that recovery is a process, not an event, and involves re-establishing a positive identity. Recovery means different things for people who use services, families, practitioners, and society. It promotes positive messages that people can recover and live meaningful lives in the community with social support. The presentation calls for a more empowering, partnership-based approach where services work to make themselves redundant by promoting independence, choice, and community integration for all.
Deliverables deck created for pro bono cause consulting client, Food & Friends through Georgetown University Public Relations & Corporate Communications program.
BRAC is a non-profit organization founded in 1972 in Bangladesh that aims to empower villagers, especially women, through various development programs. At the heart of BRAC's philosophy is empowering villagers, especially women, to run programs without BRAC's assistance. In Jamalpur, BRAC has helped organize women's cooperatives, education programs, and family health programs run by the village women themselves to make the villages economically independent.
Partha Pratim Mondal is applying for a position in the visual effects industry. He has 13 years of experience in animation and VFX working on films, television series, and commercials. Some of his experience includes matte painting, concept development, modeling, and texturing. He has worked on international Hollywood projects. Mondal is a strong team player who has experience working with various software. He is looking for a career opportunity with growth potential where he can utilize his technical and artistic skills.
This document provides a review of models for reducing handoff blocking probability in wireless cellular networks. It begins with an introduction that describes handoff blocking and the tradeoff between reducing new call blocking probability and handoff blocking probability. It then provides background on GSM and WCDMA cellular networks. The main body reviews several related works that proposed methods like prioritizing handoff calls over new calls using queuing strategies, signal prediction priority queuing, and calculating handoff priority based on signal strength. The goal of these models is to prevent dropped calls and improve quality of service by better managing handoffs and call admissions.
This candidate has over 15 years of experience providing training, operations leadership, and project management support across several industries. They are currently an Assistant Director of Quality & Operations where they provide ongoing training and leadership for quality and operations teams, and support other departments with ERP software training and export compliance oversight. Previously they have held roles in warehouse management, shipping/receiving, farming, custodial services, and census data collection.
Este documento presenta los conceptos básicos de la factorización de expresiones algebraicas. Explica que factorizar es descomponer una expresión en dos o más factores. Luego, detalla los diferentes métodos de factorización como el factor común, la diferencia de cuadrados, la suma y diferencia de potencias iguales, entre otros. Finalmente, incluye ejemplos resueltos de cada método y ejercicios propuestos para la práctica.
Application of artificial neural network in metropolitan landscapeIAEME Publication
This document describes the application of an artificial neural network (ANN) to assess water quality in an urban landscape river. Specifically:
- An ANN using backpropagation was developed to create a water quality assessment model, using data from water quality monitoring at 6 sites on the landscape river.
- The ANN was trained on 4 water quality indicators (DO, NH3-N, TN, TP) using 5 water quality grades as targets, to classify new data and estimate water quality.
- The trained ANN was then used to assess the water quality at the 6 sites based on their average pollutant levels, classifying most sites as grade II or III quality.
Project management involves planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling, and reporting on information system development projects. It was first used for large-scale projects like the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s and further developed during World Wars I and II. Successful project management requires completing projects on time, within budget, and delivering high-quality products that meet user requirements. The key aspects of project management are planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting. Planning involves identifying tasks, durations, costs, and dependencies. Scheduling uses this information to create timelines like Gantt charts and PERT charts. Monitoring tracks progress and addresses issues. Reporting communicates status to stakeholders. Risk management also identifies, analyzes, and monitors risks to minimize their impact
La gamificación en el aula tiene 4 ventajas principales: 1) Aumenta la motivación de los estudiantes al hacer que el aprendizaje sea más divertido e interesante, 2) Mejora el compromiso de los estudiantes al darles desafíos y recompensas, 3) Fomenta una atmósfera de colaboración y competencia saludable entre los estudiantes, y 4) Facilita el aprendizaje mediante el uso de mecánicas de juegos para enseñar conceptos.
Nextiva offers cloud-based business communication products including a cloud phone system, hosted call center, and SIP trunking. These products provide advantages like reduced costs, increased productivity, easy implementation and use, improved profitability, and enable a better customer experience. Nextiva invites partners to join their program to add these unified communication solutions to their portfolio and earn commissions. The Nextiva partner program provides benefits like industry-leading commissions, demo accounts, fast-start commissions, marketing support, and dedicated channel managers.
The aim of the project is to implement a dialog system, which answers the users queries related to product information.
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Este documento resume diferentes métodos anticonceptivos hormonales como las píldoras, inyectables, anillo vaginal y parche, destacando sus ventajas y desventajas. También describe las principales infecciones de transmisión sexual, cómo se contagian y métodos para prevenirlas, incluyendo educación sexual, asesoramiento y promoción del uso de preservativos.
This report presents the final technical report that draw lessons on best practices for small-scale climate smart agriculture to be shared with stakeholders for the purpose of influencing policy and policy practices at all levels. The report is based on literature review and filed visits to Kilosa and Chamwino Districts.
Serial ATA, S-ATA o SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) es una interfaz de transferencia de datos entre la placa base y algunos dispositivos de almacenamiento, como la unidad de disco duro, lectora y grabadora de discos ópticos (unidad de disco óptico), unidad de estado sólido u otros dispositivos de altas prestaciones que están siendo todavía desarrollados. Serial ATA sustituye a la tradicional Parallel ATA o P-ATA.
A mobile phone jammer is a device that transmits signals on the same frequencies used by cellular networks, preventing phones from connecting to cell towers. It works by overpowering the communication between a phone and tower with higher power radio signals, rendering phones unusable. Mobile jammers were originally developed for law enforcement to interrupt criminal communications but some were designed for detonating explosives. There are different types of jammer devices that can be used to prevent cell phone disturbances in places like classrooms, hospitals, and religious sites.
The document discusses Transonic Combustion technology, which aims to improve internal combustion engine efficiency. It does this by injecting fuel directly into the cylinder as a supercritical fluid, achieving rapid mixing and spontaneous ignition at multiple locations. This allows for high rates of heat release and cycle efficiency. The technology involves a novel heated fuel injector that can operate on various fuels, including gasoline and diesel. It works independently of spark or compression ignition by lightly oxidizing the fuel into a supercritical vapor before injection. Initial tests indicate the technology could potentially double fuel efficiency compared to conventional gasoline engines.
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The Teen Smart Health Outreach/EOC Health Services clinic aims to empower low-income individuals and families through health services and education. Their mission is to "help people, change lives" by addressing health care access as a social justice issue and providing reproductive healthcare, counseling, and prevention education to teens and the community. The agency takes a culturally-competent approach to serving the uninsured, underinsured, low-income populations and individuals seeking confidential care.
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Respond to your colleagues. Respond with a comment that asks for clarification, supports, or contributes additional information to two or more of your colleagues.
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As influencers in our society, that bring about social change in healthcare as all those we contact, the type of agent I would align with is a Purposeful Participant. Where "School or work are the primary motivations for involvement in positive social change." (
What kind of social change agent are you? n.d.) are what defines greatly the type of agent I am. Due to my desire to expand my education and grow, I have been allowed to not just see but know that I can contribute to various aspects of healthcare. At the hospital I currently am employed, many principles are introduced to us and help us with making a difference for our patients as all professionals alike by the way we interact and the relationship we create with everyone. Even if driven by these two motivators, they have opened my eyes and expanded my limitations in the change we can bring about.
This eye-opening experience has changed my perspective on how I can make a social change with all those around me. I now feel that a cascade effect comes from my changes as little as it might seem, it gets passed down and impact larger changes in the long run. How I speak with my patients and show the advocate I am for them in addressing their healthcare issues with importance, to the trust and relationship I have created with the primary care providers, goes to show these small social changes can in the end bring a great change for all. This has shown me that social change has a larger purpose in the end and even as small of a change we bring about, if we all come together and do the same, the results would be even more significant than what we perceived as a small change in the beginning. From our professional interactions with one another to our desire to help and better our care with all patients alike, these changes have a great purpose and impact on our future as everyone else.
Apart from that, social change has influenced my education by motivating me to seek ways to make a difference in a community project presented by my university. It has ignited a flame in me, so to speak, and piqued my interest in seeing what my university has to offer in making a social change. Whether this is by being part of projects, joining a committee, or being part of future alumni programs to help others. Also, being able to refine my nursing practice in our community as in the hospital has been a change for me. This, in turn, will be put forth in the interactions and relationships I create with my patients, colleagues, peers, and others I come in contact with, hopefully, bringing a social change in the end. This is what the principles of social change will bring about for me.
References
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1. David O’Brien
Tell us what you feel passionate about and why?
I feel passionate about social change, justice, human rights for all including prisoners, poverty,
mindfulness and equality. I feel passionate about respect, dignity and empowering people,
communities and professionals to give their best to one another, to play to their own and others
strengths and to be mindful and comfortable with themselves and others. I feel passionate about
working in partnership with professionals in health, care and the wider public sector to make a
difference, to improve services, to transform systems and change lives. ALONE we cannot make
the changes, TOGETHER with the professionals, we can. I want to transform healthcare by playing
my part in Devolution Greater Manchester, I want to be one of the lived experience members of the
EDC so together with the system leaders, we can promote equality, diversity and human rights in
healthcare so it simply becomes ‘what we do’ WITH communities, not what we talk about or do TO
communities. I want to highlight that the current public sector service cuts are damaging to service
users, families and communities and to the professionals. I believe that the recent welfare reforms
would not have got through an Equality Impact assessment if the EDC had carried one out on
them. The Cardiff Heath Board, Wales are asking; ‘to HIA (health impact assess) or not to HIA
for welfare reform?..that is the question. I want to be part of the EDC and hope we can look at
how communities can build their own assets and be resilient so the service cuts don’t do more
damage. Even with the pressure on budgets, I believe we can work together with the professionals
so the system can take a humane approach. Cost reductions through benefit sanctions coupled
with DWP food-bank vouchers won’t save money in the long run. We need to move away from the
‘bedroom tax’ as a ‘cash cow’ and have a sensible conversation about stemming spiralling
healthcare costs and meeting unmet demand by tapping into community assets and taking ‘people-
powered’ approaches to health and wellbeing.
I feel passionate about the recovery movement for addiction and mental health issues and its
mantra ‘I alone can do it, I can’t do it alone’. Change must come from within. Change your
thoughts, change your life, however you cannot transform yourself, your community or OUR NHS
alone. You recover IN COMMUNITY with others, IN PARTNERSHIP with peer advocates and
professionals.
Some of us are ‘in recovery’. All of us can be ‘in discovery’. Mark Gilman, the national Czar for
Recovery PHE, has now started the ‘Discovery Movement’! This is relevant for me as an
2. applicant to be a lived experience member of EDC because I want to support and promote the
EDC developing policies and services for ALL (especially all protected groups and those who are
marginalised and disadvantaged ) not just for people like me. The recovery movement is based on
30 years of research, policy and practice about how people recover from behaviours and lifestyles
that were killing them. Recovery could suggest there was a time and a place to go back to when all
was well, however many of us have lived all our lives in financial, educational, cultural and
emotional poverty. We have grown up surrounded by poor health and wellbeing. Poor health and
wellbeing is the norm.
The journey to health and wellbeing needs to be a Voyage of Discovery for all.To coin a
phrase, I am applying for a lived experience position at the EDC because I want to be part of ‘the
solution’. As Dr Ruth Hussey, former Regional Director of Public Health in the North West said
when she awarded us our mindfulness certificates at that very first Department of Health pilot in
2011, ‘let’s replace the I in Illness with the WE in Wellness.!’
I feel passionate about transforming the healthcare system together. We need to change focus. It
cannot be done without changing the lens on the camera. We need to work with the professionals
so people move from being ‘hard to reach’, ‘challenging’, ‘none-compliant’ ‘complex’ and
whatever other label we put on them to being partners in their own health and care, partners in
change, and this is what asset based community development (ABCD) can bring to the table of
health and care. I feel passionate about enjoying life. The NHS needs an entertainment manager.
We all need to lighten up. We need to work with humour which isn’t based on reducing or belittling
others. Have you ever tried laughter therapy? It’s amazing and it also boosts the immune system.
Less drugs, more belly laughs.
I want to co-produce training WITH professionals and FOR professionals and patients. I want to
put the public back into public health so that those who are most disadvantaged, most
marginalised and those from protected groups can transform their OWN health in partnership with
health professionals and have services built around their assets, strengths and needs.
Tell us about your lived experience?
I was born on the pavement outside a Manchester pub- so you can be certain that I am literally
‘coming up from the streets’ ! I am proud of my lived experience and see myself as a survivor in
many ways. One of my mentors says she will get me a blue plaque on the pub wall or have it
embedded in the York paving stone! My mother drank heavily when she was pregnant with me and
the ambulance didn’t get their quick enough when she finally realised she was in labour. I had a
3. ruthless, violent, alcoholic father and I learned not to cry just to show him he wasn’t ’getting to me’.
He died of shame, too embarrassed to undergo examinations and tests for colon cancer.
When my father passed away I learned that he was born illegitimate to an Irish Catholic teacher in
Tiperary who chose not to disclose who the father of her child was. My father had pretended all his
life that he was one of a large family of brothers who lived in Southern Ireland and later emigrated
to America. All lies, all shame, all about feeling unworthy, all about continuing the cycle of violence
and neglect of your children. Bringing up children, even from a distance, is the most difficult thing I
have done but I have managed to break that cycle and have provided as best I could for my own
children and have never ever been physically or emotionally violent towards them.
My lived experience has much pain, abuse and negativity in it but I have managed to turn
that around and create a strength base for myself. I can help EDC professionals to see how
this approach can work for me it can work for all using ABCD! Together we can strengthen
the NHS.
As a child I survived by being a runaway, a truant and a thief. I also used to steal on demand from
gas meters in the local area for my mother. I progressed onto parking meters and beyond. I take
full responsibility for the anti-social things I have done in my past and I don’t want to paint a picture
of me as an innocent victim of life’s circumstance however to an extent, I was a ‘manufactured
thug’, My early lessons in violence were sadly reinforced by the correctional training schooling
system. At 18 I was described in the gutter press as ‘Britain’s worst Football Hooligan’, I graduated
from Borstal into prison and onto thirty-four years of daily drug use and dealing. At the age of 52, I
began my journey from drug use towards recovery and have ever since acted as a mentor to
people in the early stages of recovery. I now contribute lived experience to health-related research
and service redesign. And I am an honorary researcher at the University of Manchester and I have
presented at national conferences on prison health, offender wellbeing, recovery, sustainability in
healthcare and mindfulness. My blue ‘pathway’ diagram shows some of the highlights of
my volunteering work. Through my lived experience I feel able to understand the lived experience
of others from protected groups and living in challenging circumstances. If chosen to be an EDC
lived experience member I would make sure I keep up to date with all types of lived experience so I
am not going to the EDC just concentrating on people like me. I would like to be a member of the
lived experience and inclusion health sub group that was discussed at the EDC because then I will
4. get to hear about the statistics and the research done on other groups and I can make sure the
Equality and Diversity Council know how important it is for them to support all the inclusion health
groups and improve their health, healthcare and access to services.
Can you tell us about which local Values group you have been involved in, since when and
what has been your contribution to it?
I have made a power-point about what work I have done for the Greater Manchester Values Group
and beyond. I would like to thank Iman Rafatmah, my lived experience friend and colleague for his
technical assistance. I hope this helps to show you what I have contributed to the Values group
and the recovery and lived experience agenda. This is important as we can’t just focus on what we
have done in the group. You need to know how you can build on our other valuable volunteering
work to know what we can bring to the Equality and Diversity Council.
I have enclosed a copy of my blue ‘Pathway’ diagram. This is something my DWP mentor first
suggested I do. I keep it updated as I get involved in more volunteering. It shows how I went into
recovery and was referred by Greater Manchester West to join the DH Mindfulness and
Worklessness Pilot in 2011. I was lucky enough to collect a few mentors and coaches along the
way such as Tom Hennell who has a brain the size of a planet. He helped me and I helped him
develop his theory of “Living Ill Better”; he acknowledges me when he presents this at national
conferences. I also had help from a Grenville Page who introduced me to a group of civil servants
and some of them were working on flexible payment regimes at DWP. I inspired Grenville to leave
the civil service and join the voluntary sector. I hope he can still pay his bills! I joined the expert by
experience policy collaborative and that is when I saw the power of how I could use my lived
experience to help policy makers who were writing policy without knowing much about the lives of
the service users they were writing it for. Through my NHS mentor Ruth Passman, I have
experienced rapid ageing. I am only 30 but have been worn out by constant demands to attend
meetings, learn new things and so on. It’s been a great journey. This all links to Asset based health
and my great friend and colleague Mark Gilman. I have been active in the UK Recovery Walks in
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester where I ran a Recovery Boat and delivered mindfulness and
recovery support. In 2011 I was asked by Mark to do a Sunday Times interview with the Chief
Executive of the National Treatment Agency. As you will see, this was to launch the new Drugs
Strategy and to send a message about how important recovery and peer led recovery is. I got
mindfulness a mention too! I was approached by Nagina in the NHS England Public Patient Voice
team and I set up a mindfulness and wellbeing stall at the Leeds Values Summit with lived
5. experience champions. I also was filmed on the day (autographs later) and spoke at the workshop
on social value with all the system leaders. One Values Summit led to another. And another. And
another. I volunteered at the London Summit and set up the Manchester summit. We worked all
the day before to make sure it was a great summit and I was a keynote speaker alongside Mark
Gilman and ran a workshop on recovery also. We set up the Greater Manchester Values group and
have been working on many priorities. JSNAs, end of life care, access to services, homelessness,
migrant health, poverty, debt, welfare reforms and food banks. We presented all our work at the
Expo and we are planning to take it by storm again this year. We have helped John, Vijay and
Aman in the Leeds network. Together WE CAN.
I am amazed to look at the pathway diagram and see my journey from Children’s Homes, Borstal
and Strangeways to the University of Manchester and to being a national speaker and a local
community activist. I hope to be a Lived Experience member of the EDC and represent the Greater
Manchester Values Group. I have also charted some of the qualifications I have now achieved
which will help me in this role. I have my foundational qualification from MMU in coach-mentoring.
My Foundational Diploma in Emotional Therapeutic Counselling. I am a fully qualified mindfulness
teacher and I am setting up a Centre for Community Mindfulness so lived experience teachers like
me, Carl, Natasha, Kevin and Stewart can bring mindfulness to the world of recovery and into
prisons. I am very proud of the work I have done since I became a member of the North West
People in Research Forum – established and funded by the NHS. I have become an honorary
researcher and staff member at the University of Manchester, helping clinical psychologists to
design and deliver suicide prevention initiative sin prisons in a way that is effective ad is safe for
them and the prisoners. I have delivered lectures to first year psychologists also so they get to see
what kind of lived experience they will meet in their clinics and how they can understand more
about the lives of their patients. I am now involved in a new research project called INSITE which is
looking at prescribing and other complementary and appropriate interventions for mental health in-
patients with complex needs and dual diagnosis. I mention all of this as it is part of that richness
that I , alongside others, bring to the Values Group and we keep each other informed of what is
going on in our areas of volunteering or work.
How do you think the NHS should improve to meet the diverse needs of all its communities?
Simple. Asset Based Health.
6. The NHS is for everyone irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion,
belief, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity or marital or civil partnership status. The
NHS has legal and moral duties to to promote equality and reduce health inequalities. It must pay
particular attention to groups or sections of society where improvements in health and life
expectancy are not keeping pace with the rest of the population. That means listening up to all the
people of lived experience and all the patients groups when they tell the NHS that they have not
received services delivered with respect, dignity and compassion or they have had poor care. We
have a bold NHS Chief Executive. He has championed the Workforce Race Equality Standard. He
has supported and agreed to Lived Experience members joining the EDC. The NHS needs to seize
this opportunity for Equality as it will help us transform NHS care.
We need People Powered health. The NHS should support individuals to promote and manage
their own health. NHS services must be tailored to the needs and of patients, carers, families and
communities who must be fully involved in and consulted on all decisions about their care and
treatment.
We can deliver improvements in health and wellbeing by co-producing the serviceswith the
community. Patients must come first in everything the NHS does and must be treated with respect
and dignity. I have attended workshops on human rights in healthcare and have spoken about
human rights breaches in prions and with the care of older people. The NHS needs to get better at
valuing and respecting the different needs, aspirations and priorities that patients and their carers
and families have, and must properly take them into account when designing and delivering
services, regardless of what protected group or area they come from. Staff can be invisible patients
– who cares for the care givers?
The NHS needs to listen to people of lived experience. It needs to co-design and co-deliver training
to staff and patients. I have received uncompassionate and disrespectful healthcare in prison and
in A&E when I have accidentally overdosed. Compassionate care means valuing everyone. The
NHS can tap into the assets of its communities so people can be partners in their own care to
improve the health and wellbeing of patients, communities and its staff.
At Expo and at the Leeds, London and Manchester Values Summit we heard about the values that
are enshrined in the NHS constitution and also the five year forward view. We have a great chance
to improve NHS services and promote equality and tackllng health inequalities in access to,
experience of and outcomes from health and care services through our lived experience
membership of the EDC..
7. At Expo we talked in the End of Life workshop about ‘bearing witness’ and we heard in the access
to healthcare workshops from those with alcohol and drug addiction issues as well as the homeless
and destitute. Here professionals and people with lived experience were able to talk openly and
honestly and to explore solutions of how to address these issues through co-producing policy –
professionals and lived experience together. We have so many innovative good practice
exemplars such as the open registration policy and excellent primary care provided by the Urban
Village Medical Practice in Ancoats, Manchester. Lets use them and industrialise this across the
NHS.
Tell us about your listening skills and how you can present what you learn concisely to
others.
I often play a ‘bridging’ or ‘translating’ role between people in my community and public services.
When I meet the parents on my estate who are struggling with supporting teenage children who
are in trouble and when I speak with older ex-offenders who have mental and emotional health
needs, addiction and debt issues and relationship problems, my listening skills have to be second
to none. Most of these men and women have no trust in authority, are suspicious of professionals,
are not in touch with or fall from the very margins of services and I have to listen actively, build and
earn trust through being present, sympathetic, supportive and empathetic. In the world of addiction
and recovery, I sometimes have an opportunity of just a matter of minutes to communicate in a way
that shows I hail from their world and can be trusted, I have experienced similar problems to them
and have come through with professional help. It is vital that am a ‘trusted broker’ and get the
message across that we NEED professionals. I have to be able to communicate what I have
learned about accessing services, choosing the right moment to signpost community members to
peer support and any mainstream services that are geared up to meet their needs. I feel I could
communicate well at EDC, playing a ‘translating’ and ‘bridging’ role between people of lived
experience, the professionals and the system leaders.
I have become skilled in presenting what I have learned through my lived experience. I am a
naturally communicative and talkative person and over the last year, I have been studying
techniques to select my main points or distil them so that when in a large meeting or a group,
everyone gets ‘air time’. I have recently asked for the help of a mentor who is a clinical
psychologist to develop my listening and communication skills to a higher level. I think this will be
really helpful. Watch this space! Two years ago, I attended a ‘Making an Impact’ course run by
actors and voice coaches and I would love to do some more work like this with other people of
lived experience, training alongside professionals again. One exercise from the training that I still
8. use is ‘the elevator pitch’. You practice distilling your message into 60 seconds. That can be your
own ‘pitch’- who you are, what you do and what you are passionate about, or it can be a ‘pitch’ for
the project or policy you are promoting at that time.
I have had to learn to communicate concisely and powerfully in mentoring relationships with
academics, policy makers and public servants and when speaking at local and national
conferences and events. I have presented what I have learned about mindfulness, recovery,
violence prevention and the prevention of suicide in prisons to audiences ranging from local
support groups to the Chief Executive of the NHS (past and present) and of course to the Advisory
or steering groups that I sit on. I gained my foundational qualification in Emotional Therapeutic
counselling which provided training in active and empathetic listening when working with people in
distress. How to ‘hold’ the situation safely and confidently. This has helped me with my listening
skills.
What skills and training you think you need to meet the needs of this role?
I would like support to do a skills and training audit so I can be fully aware of what gaps I have,
however I would like training in leadership, in advanced communication and presentational skills
and in writing reports. I would like training in cultural competency so I can gain more knowledge of
and confidence in working with diversity. I have a teenage son with an ex-partner who is a gypsy/
traveller and I would like to receive training so I can better understand how to be a support
advocate for my son and his community and I have agreed work with the Traveller Movement and
with Dr Vijay Kumar, GP to the gypsy –traveller community and a member of the Leeds Values
network so I can help support traveller communities in tackling the health, social and housing
issues that they face.
Can you commit to participating in EDC pre-meetings and de-briefing sessions.? Will you
feed back to your values group or network from the EDC after each session? Yes. If
successful, I am really looking forward to preparing together with a group of people of lived
experience prior to the EDC meetings We have been told that we will get the papers a week before
the meeting which gives us the opportunity to digest them, ask any questions we may have and
prepare for our participation nt he Council meeting. The de-bref and feedback meetings will help us
to be strategic in how we bring a lived experience approach to the Council and to ensure that not
just the values group we are a member of but the other groups and networks are kept informed and
involved.
9. What do you understand by the Nolan principles of public life (selflessness, objectivity,
integrity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership)
In the criminal underworld we had our own leaders, our own sense of honour, principles and a
skewed code of conduct which we would live or die by. Looking back, I cared passionately about
having ‘honesty amongst villains’, being able to trust those I worked closely with, having their back,
acting selflessly at times to protect and support them. I was ruthless if I thought someone had
crossed the line with me. I often sorted out bullying that I saw in prisons. I couldn’t see vulnerable
prisoners getting beaten up or driven to the point of break down. I used to say if you pick on him
you’ll have me to deal with.
Now I live a more meaningful and productive life but the spark within that made me want to be part
of something bigger than myself, that made me want to have beliefs’ and principles can now be
applied to something that doesn’t involve drugs, violence, anger, aggression and crime. I can fully
support the principles of public life as without them, we cannot promote equality, human rights and
diversity and will not succeed in transforming our NHS. We need to ensure the principles of public
life apply to lived experience leaders also. It is in the public interest for EDC to select good lived
experience members who will not act for personal gain but will have the public interest in mind in all
they do. I am committed to working in a way that is open and transparent and if selected, will be
accountable to both the EDC and the values groups and networks, reporting back on the work of
the EDC.