Keys to Life describes examples that illustrate the context of innovation; guiding ideals, four leadership commitments, and innovation in the design and delivery of residential supports for ten people that have emerged from the organization’s commitment to innovation
Region: International
Shared lives Plus: Shared Lives in Health
Shared Lives Plus (SLP) has commissioned Cordis Bright to conduct research in relation to the Scaling Shared Lives in Health Programme. This report explores the impact of the Scaling Shared Lives in Health Programme on the use of Shared Lives services to support individuals with a health need in England. Additionally, this report identifies four case study schemes where individuals with a health need have been supported through a Shared Lives arrangement. This report builds upon the evaluation of the implementation of the first phase of the Shared Lives in Health Programme, conducted by Cordis Bright, PPL, Innovation Unit and Social Finance in June 2019
Shared Lives 16+ Evaluation Report
This evaluation used a mixed–method approach. Interviews with young people, staff, carers and local authority stakeholders were utilised as an evaluation of process to understand the experiences of implementation and the arrangements. An outcome evaluation collected monitoring and survey data to determine distance travelled in relation to young people’s engagement in education, employment and training (EET); integration with family and community; physical health; mental health and vulnerability to risk. Interviews with young people, carers, staff and stakeholders provided qualitative data regarding the barriers and facilitators to positive outcomes. A break-even cost analysis was used to examine the costs associated with the programme and the potential cost savings.
Shared Lives Plus Community – Alternative to Residential Care
In Shared Lives, a young person or adult who needs support is matched with a carefully approved Shared Lives carer. Together, they share family and community life. Half of the people using Shared Lives live with their Shared Lives carer, sometimes for many years. The other half visit their Shared Lives carer for day support or overnight breaks.
Developing an Outcome Measurement Tool for Shared Lives
Shared Lives Plus commissioned the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent to develop an outcome measuring tool for Shared Lives. The purpose is to be able to more easily demonstrate the benefits of Shared Lives locally, regionally and nationally. It needed to be easy to use as part of current processes, co-produced with Shared Lives users, carers and schemes and evidence-based.
What is Article 12 and Legal Capacity?
Article 12 of the UNCRPD wants to ensure that every person with disabilities, including people with psychosocial disabilities, enjoy equal recognition before the law which requires legal capacity. This short animated video seeks to explain what legal capacity is all about and recalls that everyone has the inherent right to make their own choices including people with psychosocial disabilities.
Trust and Inequality
John Gottman, the renowned marriage expert, explains that trust is found in stronger, healthier, and more just communities.
The Neuroscience of Trust
Psychology Today publishes content written by clinicians, experts and researchers from across the fields of behaviour and psychology.
How to Build (and re-build) Trust
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it’s broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it, something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. “If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress,” Frei says.
The Keys to Citizenship
Citizenship is about living a good life that we each choose and making contributions to the community, while respecting the rights of others to pursue their own path. In this video, Simon Duffy describes 7 keys to how we can achieve citizenship in practice for everyone.