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NEWS

 

The Rock Trust Research Project

The Rock Trust has been awarded a grant of £317,323 by the BIG Lottery Fund’s Research Programme in order to undertake a 4 year research project, with the support of Glasgow School of Social Work at Strathclyde University. 

 

This research looks at the role of housing support services in enabling individuals who have experienced or are at risk of homelessness to build positive social networks, with a view to help optimise the quality of support each service is able to provide

 

A three phase approach will be taken to the research.

1) A survey of Scottish local authorities and housing support services.

2) In depth investigation of 4 pilot areas based round tracking a sample of service users and using service user interviewers.

3) Development of models of support, resources and a conference to disseminate results across Scotland. 

 

The Rock Trust will manage the research partnered by Strathclyde University and supported by a Steering Group involving representatives of all groups who will be involved in and benefit from the research.  A full time research fellow will undertake the research with academic support from the Glasgow School of Social Work and project management from the Scottish Social Networks Coordinator backed up by the Rock Trust management team. In the final phase the Rock Trust will develop and disseminate training and share the experience of involvement in research.

 

Research Outcomes 

The research will provide robust evidence to influence local and national policy and provide staff with the functional best practice models and skills to develop or revise practice and bring direct benefit to service users.  Both service providers and service users will be directly involved throughout the process – in design, delivery and dissemination.  Not only will this ensure relevance, but will also develop user employability along with skills in developing, executing and utilising research.  Ultimately the research aims to help to prevent homelessness, reduce isolation, increase personal independence from support services and promote interdependence, community and family relationships.

 

 

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 SRN Training Day Round Up

 
“It was the most useful training events I have been on” - Participant
 
In our last newsletter we announced our joint training events with The Scottish Recovery Network, which took place in September. The two events, held in Edinburgh and Glasgow, received an overwhelming response, and we had a lengthy waiting list for both dates. Participants from a whole range of organisations, including NHS, Scottish Association for Mental Health and The Richmond Fellowship took part in the training, which made for lots of lively discussion.
 
Scottish Social Network’s Trainer, Allison Calder, took the participants through the training day, which had been specially tailored for those working in the mental health field. Here at Scottish Social Networks we were very pleased to have the opportunity to develop the training and branch out into a new field. We felt that the training events went very well and are looking forward to doing more work with The Scottish Recovery Network in the future.
If you are interested in hearing about future Training Days, please email your details to info@scottishsocialnetworks.org

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EVENTS

SHEIN National Conference - Wednesday 31st March, 2010 RSAMD Glasgow

Glasgow will be hosting the first National Service User Involvement Conference, which will take place on Wednesday 31st March @ RSAMD. This is a free, Scotland wide event, for everyone who supports the belief that service user participation is a key component of finding sustainable solutions to homelessness.

  

Resilience Through Life Seminar 3rd March, 2010

Resilience Through Life - An exploration of theory and practice and how it applies to the transitions faced throughout life
A review of the event can be found by clicking here.  On this page, you will also find links to the speakers' powerpoint presentations and a list of questions raised by delegates at the event.
Scottish Social Networks Forum were delighted with the day and the excellent feedback from delegates.

 4th Scottish Mediation Conference 'Strengthening Practice'

 25th and 26th February 2010 – The Barcelo CarltonHotel, Edinburgh

The conference report will soon be available at www.scottishmediationconference.org.uk

 

 SHIEN Shared Solutions Workshop, 10th December 2009 – Salvation Army Citadel Aberdeen

  

Following a successful event in December, the Report is now available - visit the website at http://www.ghn.org.uk/shien/

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New Social Networks Training Days filled up in record time! 

 

 Newsletters

 

Click on January 2010 Newsletter for our most recent Newsletter, or go to Archive to look at past editions

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