1. Something old, something new: community-centred approaches and health assets Professor Jane South, Professor of Healthy Communities, Leeds Beckett University and Health and Wellbeing Directorate, Public Health England (PHE); Jude Stansfield, Public Health Consultant, Public Mental Health, Health and Wellbeing Directorate, PHE; Professor Paul Johnstone, Regional Director North of England, PHE (Chair)

2. Aims of workshop To explore how fresh thinking on health assets can be brought together with evidence and learning on working with communities to achieve better health and wellbeing. highlight current knowledge and the opportunities for making community action more central to public health. introduce a new family of community-centred approaches, which has been developed through a joint PHE and NHS England project, discuss the application of the new family to practice, what a reorientation towards health assets would mean, and how change can be supported through national and local leadership. 2Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

3. Context Assets versus needs Marmot 2010 - Create and develop healthy and sustainable places & communities Local Government and public health role since 2013 PHE’s priorities: From Evidence to Action, role in PHE’s Health Equity Board, Due North report and Well North NHS England: Five Year Forward View and ‘Realising the Value’ project 3Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

4. Asset-based working Assets are the strengths, skills, capacities and resources which enhance the capability of individuals and communities to sustain health and wellbeing. An asset approach involves refocusing from an approach based on the deficits that produce illness to an approach based on the factors that produce health. This includes how we describe, assess, evaluate and improve health through policy, practice and intelligence. Community assets are the assets that exist within a community that people within it say are important to everyone’s health and wellbeing. 4Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

5. Why is it important to public health? 1.To understand what protects health and keeps people healthy. 2.To know how healthy our communities are, what health outcomes exist. 3.To engage people in positive, meaningful and motivating action on health. 4.To provide person-centred and community-centred interventions. 5.To empower and enable, increase sense of control and participation. 5Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

6. PHE’s emerging work Identifying and aligning work across the organisation and setting direction, gaining National Executive commitment; Supporting localities to adopt and evaluate community asset based approaches e.g. Buckinghamshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, London, Somerset; Supporting services to commission asset based approaches e.g. facilitated access to mutual aid in drugs services e.g. Birmingham, Lancashire, Manchester; Developing asset based local health profiles; Researching how community asset and resilience approaches improve emergency responses; Developing partnerships with other national organisations to align work and collaborate; Collating evidence on community-centred approaches to improving health and wellbeing; 6Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

7. Working with communities – empowerment, evidence and learning A PHE and NHS England project to draw together and disseminate existing evidence and learning on working with communities and supporting community-centred health and wellbeing interventions. Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

8. What’s new Briefing and Full report launched in February 2015 Setting out an evidence-based case for greater community empowerment A new family of approaches mapping practical options Signposting to key resources and reviews 8Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

9. The family of community-centred approaches (South 2014) Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

10. Strengthening communities These approaches build community capacities to take action on health and the social determinants of health. People come together to identify local issues, devise solutions and build sustainable social action. Community capacity building, community development, asset-based methods, community organising, social network approaches, Men’s sheds and time banking. 10Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

11. Community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing – with examples of common UK models

12. Building healthier communities Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

13. Implications for local leaders, commissioners and service providers 13 Consider how asset-based and community-centred approaches can become an essential part of local strategies to improve health and reduce inequalities Recognise scope for action: diverse and broad range of methods Use family to consider potential options for commissioning preventive services Involve those at risk of social exclusion in designing and delivering local solutions Support and develop volunteering as the bedrock of community action. Apply existing evidence, evaluate and share learning with others Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015

14. What’s next? What would a reorientation towards health assets mean, and how change can be supported through national and local leadership? What can be done together to mainstream community approaches to public health as part of our efforts to improve health and reduce inequalities? What can PHE do to support delivery at local level and help create healthy and sustainable places & communities? 14 Community-centred approaches and health assets – workshop LGA /ADPH public health conference 2015