Sarah Holden and Steve Gowland - Health, wellbeing and the environment
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Presentation by Sarah Holden, Head of Public Health Services, St Helens Council and Steve Gowland, Public Health Lead, Sefton Council: Enhancing environments, enabling communities at the Health, wellbeing and the environment event on Monday 28 January 2019 at The Isla Gladstone Conservatory, Liverpool
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Sarah Holden and Steve Gowland - Health, wellbeing and the environment
- 1. • Sarah Holden, Head of Public Health Services, St Helens Council • Steve Gowland, Public Health Lead (Wellness & Mental Health), Sefton Council 28th January 2019 Enhancing Environments, Enabling Communities
- 2. Enabling Communities To take a look at Public Health working together with partners and the community to maximise the use of outdoor space to improve health and wellbeing outcomes: • Local Context • The Approaches • Examples of Practice • Outcomes
- 4. St Helens Council St Helens Council’s ambitions: 1. Improving People’s Lives – improving health and wellbeing outcomes for people 2. Creating a Better Place – creating an attractive and sustainable environment 3. An adaptive Innovative Council – working collaboratively, customer focused Through four borough level strategic objectives: 1. Raising and achieving aspirations 2. Developing a sustainable Health and Social Care system 3. Growing the Economy 4. Being Connected “Improving People’s Lives in St Helens, together, by tackling the challenge of cost and demand”
- 5. St Helens Council • Benefits of being outdoors to our health • 1047ha of open space • 70% includes woodland, grassland, heathland, moorland, scrubland and amenity space. • 143ha of parks and gardens, 15 parks across the borough (12 x Green Flag awards) • Partners and communities coming together to create great/ safe places to be • Public health key priorities: • Healthy Weight • Better mental health and well-being/ reducing isolation and loneliness • Connecting people • Volunteering and community voices There are great opportunities to bring these resources together.
- 6. Improving Health and wellbeing outcomes through maximising the Outdoors Offer – Physical Activity & Fitness • Improving Fitness • Reducing risk • Inclusive activities • Social connections • 1500 attendances to park and canal walks • 1000 wheels for all riders per year
- 7. Improving Health and wellbeing outcomes through maximising the Outdoors Offer – Volunteering and Community Voice • Listening to Local People • Investing in Volunteers • Accessible and Inclusive • Working with our partners “As always the volunteers show commitment and passion to what they do!” Health Worker feedback
- 8. Improving Health and wellbeing outcomes through maximising the Outdoors Offer – Families • Have fun • Learn • Be active • Make friends Councillor Sue Murphy, said: “It’s great to see so many families turn out to support events like this which offers children fun, creative and healthy things to do in the school holidays. 350 x children Long term engagement through Cpt Tuck’s Club Wider learning outcomes
- 9. Improving Health and wellbeing outcomes through maximising the Outdoors Offer – Raising awareness of good mental health and wellbeing ‘Made me more aware of the signs that someone may be suffering from Mental Health problems’ - 2 Open space events - 250 conversations - 84 partners engaged - 25% required further support
- 10. Maximising the Outdoors Offer 10 St Helens Families in the Park
- 12. Context • Looking for different approaches to maximise the environmental asset in local communities • High inequalities • Professionals are facilitators and enablers not commissioners We asked the question – “What would make a better Bootle?” • Vision of a more engaged community • How can I be part of my community and shape it ?
- 13. Flipping the negatives… • Encourage and enable communities build on asset based approaches • Finding enjoyable opportunities in the local area • Develop social entrepreneurship – how can we support individuals to kick start different stuff ? • Sustainable approach how we work together • Identifies and ‘show off’ the health-enhancing assets in a community • People are the co-producers of health and well-being, rather than the recipients of services • True to the focus that communities who support one another, who are resilient and independent
- 14. Outcomes • People have choice and control over what they need to build stronger communities • People like living in their communities • People supported to maintain their independence • People feel they can access resources to have a good and healthy quality of life • People have improved access to a range of opportunities • People will have timely support & access to non-commissioned activity • People know how to create the change they want to see
- 15. Bootle has great assets in terms of its place, its people and community; • We want to use the Well Sefton to springboard new opportunities and forge new connections; • Create opportunities for people to improve their life skills, education, employability and enterprise; • We want to be ambitious and bold; • We want to hear people’s stories of how Well Sefton has made a positive difference to their lives. Mission: Building a Brighter Bootle
- 16. Investing in our Social Entrepreneurs Branding Bootle #Destination Bootle Community arts and cultural programme Community Food Food as a platform to build community resilience through Environment as an local asset Community Prescribing Transformation of Bootle is through its young people Young people engaged with their environment Social Prescribing Social prescribing and role of link workers Support volunteering and local activism The Environment
- 18. Lock and Quay – Pub & Hub
- 19. Bootle Music Festival Matthew Dodgson, Director at ICS Liverpool “In the 30+ years I’ve been around this area I never thought the day would come that I would see an event like that bring the community together. It was an absolute joy to be a part of.
- 21. Reflections • Not about structured commissioning • Not about formal commissioner and provider relationship • Not about commissioners making recommendations • Not commissioner led It is about; • Communities deciding what their communities need and want • Seeing environment as vital to change • Focus on a ‘decent’ place to live • Experimenting and confidence to let it ‘unfold’.
- 22. What have been the key ingredients? • Trust • Commissioners – journey not formal • Building on strengths and existing assets • Unlocked the usual relationships • High risk = high reward • Providers – become a partnership not an island • Connecting social prescribing to regeneration • Commissioners encouraged the communication between partners • Keeping people true to the overarching outcomes
Editor's Notes
- 20 walks per month 30 walk leaders- volunteers and staff. Link with park rangers- history, education of both green space and health and wellbeing Graded walks from beginners to advanced. Nordic walking
- 350 children and adults engaged over 6 events Captain tuck was in Taylor Park, Mesnes Park and Victoria Park this summer time. The aim was to engage children, young people and families in positive healthy activities through the summer holiday period. The activities included colouring in, a nature trail around the park with Tuck and concluded with fun family games in the park. The community food team, community activity coaches and healthy living workers provided a wide range of games and activities aiming to give families/groups ideas to use themselves at home or in the park. The activities provided children with their daily recommended 60 minutes of physical activity. The healthy living team provided government guidelines on food drink and recommended daily activity for both children and adults. All healthy living services where promoted at these events.
- Public Health can’t improve health alone… it takes a partnership of public, private and third sector alongside the community to create a healthy borough and a great place to live Include statement overarching of the wellbeing outcomes, benefits and future direction.
- Change the dynamic and the relationship
- The Green Side of the Canal! Unique features = unique opportunities!
- Input (Ingredients) + Partners (Effort) = Outputs (The Cake) AND Outcomes (The feeling and the enjoyment)
- Bootle has great assets in terms of its place, its people and community – we want to make the most of them. We want to use the Well Sefton programme to springboard new opportunities and forge new connections to maximise people’s ability to strengthen community cohesion and build social capacity. We want to create opportunities for people to improve their life skills, education, employability and enterprise – we see Well Sefton being a vehicle to support this through investment in our social entrepreneurs and wider partnerships to build capacity and growth We want to be ambitious and bold. We want to have a sustainable business plan in place by 2019; have trebled the number of partners co-opted to Well Sefton with at least a third of those being private sector, bringing resources and new investment with them. We want to hear people’s stories of how Well Sefton has made a positive difference to their lives.
- Why itn has worked