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Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/road-to-recovery-lessons-from-community-organisations
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Slides from talks given to Anglesey Council on how to develop Citizen Directed Support locally and in Wales. Covering (1) problems in design of welfare state (2) history of innovations (3) key ideas and reforms (4) challenge of making changes work.
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You can already see national platforms emerging that empower citizens to help their neighbors--NeighborGoods and SeeClickFix are great examples. Like place blogs, hyperlocal civic engagement projects like Front Porch Forum and Localocracy are taking civic engagement back to the future if you will,providing online tools and platforms for neighbors to help neighbors in their own communities. where they can witness the impact Neighbors are beginning to use these tools to identify themselves, reconnect, and generate collective action that transforms their communities. This future reflects a shift from projects that are large in scale and often disconnected from where we live and who we know. The age of local community barn raising is back, with a little help from the social web.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people without access to the internet were already at a severe disadvantage in terms of accessing essential goods, services, job opportunities and financial support. The pandemic has dramatically exacerbated this situation. People — many for the first time — have increasingly had to rely on the internet and digital devices to get things done, and to participate fully in society.
In this webinar we presented and discussed the key findings from our research with Citizens Online. The aim of the research was to explore the digital experiences of older adults, and the organisations supporting them during the pandemic.
Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/digital-skills-connect-webinar
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Back to Barnraising: Why Hyperlocal Is The Future for Online Civic Engagement...ACTion Alexandria
Since we witnessed online organizing at its most winning during the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, there have been a slew of online civic engagement ventures of national or even international scope--TwitterVoteReport and InaugurationReport, Ushahidi, Ashoka Changemakers, Ideas for America, Citizen Effect--the list goes on an on. And while many of these projects have been very successful, what they've made apparent is that what is often most difficult to do, is to help those living closest to us--in our town, on our street, on our block. The next generation of online civic engagement tools and platforms must address this most basic need--neighbors helping neighbors.
You can already see national platforms emerging that empower citizens to help their neighbors--NeighborGoods and SeeClickFix are great examples. Like place blogs, hyperlocal civic engagement projects like Front Porch Forum and Localocracy are taking civic engagement back to the future if you will,providing online tools and platforms for neighbors to help neighbors in their own communities. where they can witness the impact Neighbors are beginning to use these tools to identify themselves, reconnect, and generate collective action that transforms their communities. This future reflects a shift from projects that are large in scale and often disconnected from where we live and who we know. The age of local community barn raising is back, with a little help from the social web.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people without access to the internet were already at a severe disadvantage in terms of accessing essential goods, services, job opportunities and financial support. The pandemic has dramatically exacerbated this situation. People — many for the first time — have increasingly had to rely on the internet and digital devices to get things done, and to participate fully in society.
In this webinar we presented and discussed the key findings from our research with Citizens Online. The aim of the research was to explore the digital experiences of older adults, and the organisations supporting them during the pandemic.
Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/digital-skills-connect-webinar
Cities are becoming the most prominent context for social change in the world today, and they offer exciting opportunities for participative governance. A model of “systematic civic stewardship” frames the city as community-based, action-learning system. Leaders play key roles in neighborhood teams focused on local challenges (graduation rates, health outcomes, etc.), while learning and working with peers via city-wide communities of practice. We have much to learn about learning systems in any context—understanding how they work in communities and cities draws on organization experience and provokes new insights.
Talk by Dr Simon Duffy for AACQA on equal citizenship and aged care systems. Dr Duffy explores the meaning of citizenship and the problems inherent in support systems that are not focused on community inclusion.
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Find out more: https://ageing-better.org.uk/events/community-connections-as-we-age
Slides from a webinar broadcast on 15 July 2020, sharing what volunteering organisations have learned since the lockdown in March.
Watch the full recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyFbDAtHHQo
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A presentation by David Kelly, Programme Manager (Place-Based Integration), Greater Manchester Police given at the Police Foundation's Annual Conference 2017.
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View slides from this webinar, which explored how you can capture photos that show the diversity of older people in realistic and authentic ways.
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This set of slides brings together findings from ‘The State of Ageing 2022’, an online interactive report.
We’re offering this PowerPoint for you to use in your own presentations, but we ask that you retain references to the Centre for Ageing Better.
This webinar explored the motivators and barriers to active travel for people in their 50s and 60s, and by extension, what might work to get people in this age group walking or cycling as their default mode of travel.
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In this webinar we discussed the Good Home Inquiry’s findings and recommendations, the policy priorities of the public and the next steps needed to improve our homes and improve the lives of millions of people.
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Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/good-digitally-connected-home
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Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/putting-age-in-the-frame
This webinar explored the importance of health, work and ageing, and what employers and government need to do to ensure that all employees are supported at work.
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Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/age-inclusive-workforces-webinar
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In this set of slides, we present findings of our research on work, health, housing and communities, which look at the impact of COVID-19 on people aged 50-70.
This set of slides brings together findings from ‘The State of Ageing in 2020’.
We are offering this PowerPoint for use by others in your own presentations but we ask that you retain references to the Centre for Ageing Better.
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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:
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- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
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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
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
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
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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
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
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
The Road to Recovery: Lessons from community organisations’ role supporting older people through the pandemic
1. The Road to Recovery:
Lessons from community
organisations’ role
supporting older people
through the pandemic
Webinar 28 July 2020
Melanie Henwood Associates
2. Neighbourhood Networks: Leeds &
Birmingham
• Setting the scene for today’s webinar.
• Centre for Ageing Better’s work in both sites.
• Understanding the policy context: similarities and
differences.
• Neighbourhood networks and asset based community
development.
• Ambition and aspiration.
3. Neighbourhood Networks: Leeds &
Birmingham
• Leeds: the best city to grow old in?
• Long history of support for 3rd sector.
• Leeds Neighbourhood Networks ‘the jewel in the crown’.
• Prevention, wellbeing and personalisation.
• Birmingham – Prevention First (healthy, happy independent
lives).
• Cultural change – Neighbourhood Networks; 3 conversations;
Local Area Coordination.
• Greater than the sum of the parts.
4. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making
other plans…”
5. Communities, Coronavirus & Creative Solutions
• Covid-19 hits the UK.
• Lockdown March 23rd 2020.
• What has it meant for older citizens?
• Community support and response.
• Opportunities for creative solutions.
• APPG on Social Integration.
• Mutual Aid – New Local Government Network.
6. Conclusions & Questions
• Covid-19 impact has been “devastating” & “immeasurable” (ADASS).
• Have the Neighbourhood Networks provided protection?
• Has the pandemic been a catalyst for development?
• Crisis response or permanent shift?
• What is the ‘new normal’ going to look like in building and
maintaining community resilience?
13. Working withAssets
Mapping
Support
City Council Request
25 March 2020
Some roles stayedsame
But some verydifferent
Small Grants
Covid Priorityadded
Decision-makingtaken back tocentre
5/10 NNSs gave out firstgrants
Around 50grants
£260,000
14. Loneliness &Isolation
Offer
New small grants
Existing grantees modified
theirapproach
Volunteer Offer
Assets
Co-ordinate
Plus Tasks Not
Required in theEnd
Home fromHospital
Deathand Dying
Essentials Offer
Fooddelivery
Shopping
Medication
25. Emil Prysak, CommissioningManager,
Birmingham City Council
The response of the VCFSEsector
and the civil society mobilisation
has been incredible in
Birmingham. It is without doubt
we couldn’t have been as
effective without them. Not to
mention BVSC whocoordinated
the strategic partnership forus.
26. For further details about Birmingham’s Neighbourhood Network
Schemes please contact:
Emil Prysak,
Commissioning Manager
Prevention & Communities, Birmingham City Council
Emil.Prysak@birmingham.gov.uk
Or
Benita Wishart, Support and Development Manager Prevention First
BVSC
BenitaW@bvsc.org
28. Leeds Older People’s Forum
LOPF aims to promote the well-being of all older people in Leeds, and to give a more
powerful voice to older people in shaping their city for the benefit of all citizens
❑Established March 1994 and now has a city-wide membership of 100+ third sector organisations
working with older people across Leeds
❑How – representation, co-production, enabling, influencing
❑Board and Advisors
❑Our projects
29. Leeds Third Sector Response to Covid-19
❑Leeds City Council and Voluntary Action Leeds – city wide response to supporting the
shielded and vulnerable
❑ Covid-19 telephone helpline – 300 calls per day led by LCC
❑33 ward hubs established, each led by a third sector organisation led by LCC & VAL
❑City wide volunteer recruitment campaign – 8,000 volunteers led by LCC and VAL
❑Communities of Interest – LOPF and Forum Central
❑NN’s – 12 became ward hub leads; services repurposed to meet local needs.
31. Real Time Evaluation of Leeds Neighbourhood Networks
During the COVID 19 Pandemic
The Road to Recovery: Lessons from community organisations’ role supporting older
people through the pandemic - Webinar Presentation - 28th July 2020
Chris Dayson, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
32. What is Real Time Evaluation (RTE)?
• Developed in the context of humanitarian crisis response
• Involves a flexible, rapid cycle of research with regular, accessible and actionable reports
to aid response planning and decision making.
• Feedback/findings provided during the evaluation fieldwork, rather than afterwards.
• Benefits of RTE:
– Short to medium term: regular, up-to-date information at city and neighbourhood levels to
support decision making and planning; help improve the reach, quality and effectiveness of the
LNN response
– Longer term: evidence about the role and contribution of the LNNs to the COVID 19 crisis
response and recovery; inform future commissioning decisions about the role and funding of
LNNs within the future health and social care
33. Overview of RTE Findings
• Findings fall into four categories:
1. The crisis response: what the LNN did, who it supported, and why they responded in a
particular way
2. Their position within the city-wide response: how NNs response fitted with the wider
public and VCSE response
3. Challenges associated with the LNN crisis response
4. Facing forwards: practical and philosophical reflections on the future role and
contribution of NNs
• Based on RTE fieldwork to date: 25+ interviews with NNs; 5 interviews with wider
stakeholders; 14 responses to a ‘Right Now Survey’; ongoing engagement with wider health
and social care system
34. 1. The LNN crisis response
• Key descriptors: rapid, flexible, responsive, person-centred, locally-focussed
• Many NNs ‘saw this coming’: planning in advance of lockdown, ready to identify needs and
respond quickly and flexibly. Rapid Shift from group-based to individual support.
• What the NNs have done: direct support for 000’s of older people across Leeds
– Provision of food, medicine and essential items
– Provision of social and emotional support (i.e. welfare checks and company)
• Who the NNs have supported:
– Members: existing and new members (i.e. older people) in need of support
– The wider community: usually when asked to take on ‘community hub’ role
• Has led to increased reach and visibility: more referrals, new volunteers, additional ‘demand’
35. 1. The LNN crisis response
• Each NN response determined by some key enabling factors and mechanisms:
– Resources and capacity: core funding; staff capacity and availability; volunteer capacity and
availability; access to facilities and equipment
– Pre-existing reach, knowledge and understanding: already knew who people where, where they
were, and the type of support they might need; able to access people unknown or invisible to
health and care services
– Embeddedness within their community: understanding of needs of specific communities of place
and interest; links to wider service provision (VCSE and public); trusted presence
– Values driven: commitment of key staff and volunteers to ensuring needs of community members
were met wherever possible
36. 2. The position of the LNN within the city-wide response
• Two broad types of LNN role: complementary and supplementary (Young, 2000)
• Complementary – ‘doing what’s expected’:
– Embedded in formal response structures as community hubs, co-ordinating voluntary activity
– Working closely with local partners (PCNs, LCPs, VAL) to ensure local support co-ordinated
effectively
• Supplementary – ‘going above and beyond’:
– Providing additional support outside of formal response structures
– Finding new ways to reach and support vulnerable people
– Engage people under the radar of many other providers
37. 3. Challenges associated with the LNN response
• Intensification of NN’s work – particularly for ‘key’ individuals
– NNs demonstrating both resilience and resourcefulness in response to crisis but...
– Increased demand - meeting the needs of more people with the same (often less) resource
– A sense that many NNs staff (and some volunteers) have had to work longer and harder to
sustain the response – unlikely to lesson anytime soon
– Particularly the case for ‘hubs’, but not only ‘hubs’
– Risk of burnout and burden for key staff – NNs biggest asset but also a ‘weakness’? Risk of
isolation and lack of support from boards (due to age, health etc)
38. 3. Challenges associated with the LNN response
• Being a community hub creates a tension for NNs:
– A key role that complements formal Leeds citywide response
– An ‘opportunity’? To broaden the reach and visibility of NNs (i.e. beyond existing members and
older people in general)?
– Or a ‘distraction’? Away from attending to the core needs of members (i.e. existing members and
older people)?
– Do they retain this broader role post-crisis or revert to a ‘business as usual model?
39. 3. Challenges associated with the LNN response
• LNN funding and sustainability:
– NNs not at immediate risk of funding crisis or closure: flexibility of core funding has been a key
driver of their ability to respond
– Most NNs doing what they are doing within existing budgets, cautious not to over-commit. Some
additional income from service fees, donations etc
– But...a sense more funding will be needed to sustain their role longer-term (inc as hubs): loss of
income from some activities; current ways of working are more resource intensive
– Some concern re volunteers: new volunteers returning to work (i.e. from furlough); older
volunteers may continue shielding, or experience deteriorating health, so be less able to provide
face-to-face support
40. 4. Facing forwards: practical concerns
• Moving from an acute ‘crisis’ response to ‘recovery’ and a ‘new normal’:
– Initial demand for crisis support has ‘dropped off’: what role can and should NNs play moving
forward?
– Current NN planning involves:
• Finding new ways to provide social support, including group-based support
• Getting people out and about and ‘moving more’, including as groups
• Re-connecting people with their communities
– Need to offer individual NNs bespoke tailored support to help them navigate this period?
– What is the citywide ‘vision’ for NNs during the recovery phase? Should this come from the top-
down or bottom-up? What role(s) should they play? How will this be resourced?
41. 4. Facing forwards: practical concerns
• Support during the pandemic ‘recovery’ phase likely to be needed in the following areas:
– Unemployment: support older people to deal with financial hardship; support to find work where appropriate
– Confidence: many older people will need support to re-build confidence to re-engage with NNs and other
services; and to re-connect with communities and social networks
– Mental health: more acute needs due to effects of prolonged isolation; possible PTSD of COVID 19 patients
– Isolation: more older people have become isolated; and effects of isolation more pronounced
– Physical health: shielding has led to physical ‘de-conditioning’ with implications for strength, balance, frailty
etc. Next winter a big concern – need to plan now
– Digital inclusion: will be vital moving forward; some progress but more work to be done - NN recognition that
their own limitations (skills, expertise etc) have been a barrier to progress (intergenerational opportunity?)
• Will require more intensive model of support – therefore resource (£) - than currently
provided: who will provide this? When will it be available?
42. 4. Facing forwards: philosophical concerns
• Many NNs now ‘more visible’ than before the crisis: to their local community; to other
parts of the system
• This has led to better understanding of importance of small local VCSEs in crisis
response: deepening of system-level knowledge of and relationships with NNs
• But...added visibility not without ‘risks’ (Nickel and Eikenberry, 2015):
– Additional demands and expectations from public services: will these be realistic and be
resourced effectively?
– Limits on NN autonomy and independence: could inhibit NNs ability to be flexible and
responsive?
– Additional top-down scrutiny, upward accountability and expectations: does this risk the bottom-
up nature and essence of NNs work?
43. Next steps
This presentation builds on findings from RTE Snapshot report 1:
https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/publications/real-time-evaluation-leeds-neighbourhood-networks
Further analysis of current data for more detailed analytical report in August
Please contact me to discuss further:
c.dayson@shu.ac.uk | 0114 225 2846 / 07769 233417