1. Building a healthy and sustainable community Professor Jane South PHE & Leeds Beckett University Rob Newton Leeds City Council & Leeds Beckett University Workshop at North Region Sustainability Conference, Leeds, 29th June2015

2. Acknowledgments
PHE and NHS England project to draw together and disseminate evidence and learning on community centred approaches
Briefing and Full report launched in February 2015
Briefing and Full report launched in February 2015
Set out an evidence-based case for greater community empowerment
A new family of approaches
Signposting to key resources
Dr Anne-Marie Bagnall & Dr Kris Southby, Leeds Beckett University carried out scoping review to inform this guide

3. Workshop aims
To consider the public health contribution to building healthy and sustainable communities
To share learning on effective ways of leading change and achieving outcomes
The ‘Guide to community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing’ presents the work undertaken in Phase 1 of the project and includes the case for change, the key concepts, the varieties of approach that have been tried and tested and sources of evidence

4. What is a healthy and sustainable community?
What do we know now

5. What is a community?
‘Community’ as a term is used as shorthand for the relationships, bonds, identities and interests that join people together or give them a shared stake in a place, service, culture or activity.
Distinctions between communities of place/geography and communities of interest or identity.
Communities are dynamic and complex, people’s identities and allegiances may shift over time and in different social circumstances.
Source: Guide to Community Centred Approaches: p.7

6. Community determinants of health
Control
Relation
ships
Identity
Culture
Resilience
Communal capabilities
Participation
Resources
Inclusion
Norms
Support
Democracy
Equity
Cohesion
Empowerment

7. DISCUSSION POINT What is a healthy and sustainable community?
Discuss this based on your personal experience of your own community

8. Building healthy and sustainable communities
How do we make this happen?
168 publications
32 systematic reviews
30 conceptual papers
54 practice reviews or synthesis

9. Five ways to wellbeing
(Aked 2008)

10. 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

11. Figure 2: The family of community-centred approaches (South 2014)
for health & wellbeing
Strengthening communities
Community development
Asset based methods
Social network approaches
Volunteer and peer roles
Bridging roles
Peer interventions
Peer support
Peer education
Peer mentoring
Volunteer health roles
Collaborations & partnerships
Community-Based Participatory Research
Area–based Initiatives
Community engagement in planning
Co-production projects
Access to community resources
Pathways to participation
Community hubs
Community-based commissioning

12. Community assets skills, knowledge, commitment of community members
friendships, community cohesion and neighbourliness
local groups & organisations, informal networks
physical, environmental and economic resources
assets of external agencies.
A Sheffield community’s assets - drawn by a local artist as part of an asset mapping [4]

13. Number of health and social care employees, volunteers and carers in England
Source: The King’s Fund (2013) Volunteering in health a care. Securing a sustainable future.

14. Five ways to wellbeing
(Aked 2008)

15. Reflecting on effective practice
DISCUSSION POINT – what works to support process of community capacity building?

16. Community wellbeing outcomes

17. Outcomes from community-centred approaches
Individual
Examples
Increased self efficacy and confidence
Reduction in social isolation
Community
Increased cohesion/sense of belonging
Improved environment
Community process
Community leadership
Increased volunteering
Organisational
Better public health intelligence
Re-designed services

18. DISCUSSION POINT
Creating positive outcome statements for community wellbeing
Eg. 'People are active participants in community organisations’
What should we measure in relation to our outcome statements?

19. Summing up

20. DISCUSSION POINT - what will make a critical difference?
Goals
Effective change processes – professional and community
Contextual factors
Outcomes

21. Further information Guide can be found here:
and-wellbeing-a-guide-to-community-centred- approaches
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