Leeds City Council Service Development Day 13th May 2009

The council are hosting an event for providers to look at how we develop services and support for people with learning disabilities so that they can have choice and control about what they do.  It will look at developing employment; leisure; arts and crafts opportunities and investing into community spaces.

There will be some funding available to develop new ways of working.  It is really important that as many providers as possible are involved, so put the date in your diary.  More details of the event will follow shortly.

 

Mental Health Awareness Training

There is general misunderstanding and stigma about mental ill-health. The different diagnoses (or illnesses) can attract their own myths and labels. This course will introduce you to the different types of  mental illness and provide an opportunity to discuss the ways that people can be supported by a community based service. 

Date :             Friday 19 June or Thursday 2 July 2009    Please choose one date

Time:            10:00 am  to 3:00 pm

Venue:           The Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University There is free disabled parking at The Rose Bowl for those who can display their blue badge. 

Closing Date for applications:    Monday 18 May 2009

If you sometimes feel unsure about how to support people with a mental health condition this course will help you.  The learning outcomes are:

• to understand more about mental health and the type of support you can provide 
• to be able to communicate better with clients with mental health problems 
• you need to learn about different sorts of mental health problems like schizophrenia,  depression,  bi-polar disorder,  anxiety,  obsessive compulsive disorder O.C.D 

Course Suitable for: Community Support staff, particularly those who long term mental health support and staff or volunteers currently or likely to provide support  Methods: Presentation, group work & discussion 

Course Trainer: Cathy Walker, Approved Trainer

For information please call:  Business Support Centre 2477699  for course bookings      

 

A Practical Introduction to Social Marketing

The aim of Social Marketing is to move people to action, not just give them information. It uses the tools and techniques from commercial marketing to stimulate voluntary behaviour change, helping individuals to achieve and sustain positive and healthier lifestyles.Social Marketing’s success comes from the principle of starting with the consumer -  developing a comprehensive understanding of real people in real situations,  understanding what motivates them and then ‘selling’ the benefits of particular behaviours to them in their own way and on their own terms. 

This is a practical training course enabling participants to build a tool kit of social marketing techniques and processes and apply them to live issues / projects.  

Date :     Tuesday 22nd April 2009

Time:      9:30 am  to 4:30pm

Venue:     South Leeds Stadium  

Please remember to let us know if you require any special needs in relation to you participating in the course (e.g. mobility difficulties, prefer large print outs, require a signer etc)

Topics Include:

• Core Social Marketing concepts, principles and theories        
• Exploration of social marketing case studies
• Practical activities to put knowledge into practice - including
  gathering insight, establishing behavioural goals, designing a social marketing intervention.
• Gaining an understanding of the social marketing benchmark criteria       
• Establishing behavioural goals

Key Aims:

• Introduce theories, principles, techniques and process of social marketing.
• Provide a toolbox of techniques to enable participants to help target audiences achieve behavioural goals 
• Provide opportunity for team to work together and embed social marketing in their roles. 
• Methods: Presentation, group work & discussion

Course Facilitator : Brilliant Futures

For more information please call:  Business Support Centre 2477699  for course bookings

 

 

Mental Capacity Act training e-learning (1 hour) 

The Mental Capacity Act, due to come into force in Oct 2007, will provide a coherent legal framework for people who may not be able to make their own decisions because of a learning disability, an illness such as dementia or mental health problems. 

This is a Briefing Session delivered through e-learning.             

Aims: This session will provide you with a working knowledge of the existing legal framework for protecting adults  Objectives:

The session will explore and provide opportunity for discussion on the following issues:

- Outline of MCA and why the Act is needed
- 5 key Principals
- What determines capacity and lack of Capacity
- Recording Decisions
- Best interests
- IMCA

To log-on to the training go to: http://www.kwango.com/login ·       

You will need to Create an Account and should select this option from the login screen. · The process is for creating an account is self-explanatory. You will need an Organisation Code which is leedscityc. Please use you e-mail address as their Username.   

For more information please call:  Business Support Centre 2477699 

 

 

Improving Support for Individual Budgets: Bursary Funding for Training

Courses

• London (24th April)
• Birmingham (28th April)
• Bristol (15th May)Leeds (20th May)
• Manchester (27th May)
• Newcastle (3rd June)  

Individual Budgets will have a profound impact on the way third sector organisations deliver services. Government is committed to making Individual Budgets available to all users of social care by 2011.  Individual Budgets been piloted in a limited number of areas to date, but its implications already appear profound.  Commissioning models will change dramatically, while new approaches to service delivery will be required from third sector providers – approaches described by providers in the pilot areas as “totally alien” ways of working.   

ACEVO is offering bursary funded training for Support Providers to help prepare the sector for this challenge  ACEVO believes Support Providers will have a crucial role to play in supporting third sector organisations to adapt to the financial and organisational challenges Individual budgets will bring.  With the support of Capacitybuilders we are able to offer a limited number of bursary places on a new training course for senior managers and advisers from the support sector. 

The course will cover: 

• The current state of play in the social & long-term health care reform, market projections and prediction of how this reform is likely to affect the sector
• The strengths and weaknesses of the sector to prepare for the change
• Presentation of third sector leaders and case studies of organisations that are making the transition
• Capacities existing third sectors providers should begin to build up now, and how can they do this effectively
• Guidance for providers on how to set prices; engage their users; change their back office functions
• How to move forward with the local authority and other providers 

Bursary places are limited. 

Please contact liam.cranley@acevo.org.uk to register your interest in taking up a bursary place.

 

 

BME VOICE  Newspaper

Voice of the BME voluntary and community sector in Yorkshire and the Humber

 

The first issue of the BME Voice newspaper has been launched, read it at http://www.bme.org.uk/news

The newspaper aims to provide a platform for the Yorkshire and Humber BME voluntary and community sector to showcase the wonderful work it does, and also a platform for regional & local organisations to communicate with the sector. We hope that it will raise the profile of the sector and that it will engage the BME VCS, regional agencies, local authorities, generalist VCS and funders; and will have impact as the voice of the BME VCS in the region.