Our next podcast recording is on Thursday 10th November 2022 at 2.30pm. Mark will be joined by Susan High and colleagues from Strathcarron Hospice to talk about their journey from ‘community engagement’ to ‘community development’ over the past five years or so.
Strathcarron’s continuing journey from ‘community engagement’ to ‘community development’ was featured recently in Cormac Russell’s latest paper Understanding ground-up community development from a practice perspective published in the open access journal Lifestyle Medicine.
The paper affirms that Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approaches are preferable Community Engagement practices, as they offer more authentic pathways toward community-centred population health and Wellbeing. The article concludes that once effective ground-up community development has been initiated supplementary efforts at reform and relief are more likely to have desired and sustained impact. VITC founder Mark McKergow summarises the paper and points to come of the challenges to come here.
We will have the chance to get the inside story on what Strathcarron have been doing from community development co-ordinator Susan High and her colleagues. We’ll discuss what made then think about this change, how they did it, the impact so far (on both the hospice and on the community), and the lessons learned so far.
This will be a podcast recording on Zoom. Joining the recording means you have the chance to ask questions of our guests and share your own experiences. The session will be an hour at most.
Open to all. Please join us if you can. Register your free place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/podcast-recording-from-engagement-to-community-development-with-susan-high-tickets-450325374317 .
