The Highland PCP group was established in 2005. The group is made up of both professionals and people who use services.
Events - Putting People Who Use Services in the Driving Seat - An Introduction to Citizen Leadership
An event for anyone who thinks that people who use services have got leadership potential that could benefit everyone.- Find out about how Citizen Leadership grew from a simple idea to a national initiative
- Hear from the User and Carer Forum who developed Citizen Leadership's set of principles
- Get an introduction to Preparing for Change – the comprehensive Citizen Leadership training course, now freely available
- Discuss with others how Citizen Leadership can be put into practice locally in services and in the community
Where and when
- Inverness : 26th January 2010 : 9.30am to 3.30pm : venue tbc
- Aberdeen : 27th January 2010 : 9.30am to 3.30pm : venue tbc
- Download Putting People Who Use Services in the Driving Seat flyer (pdf) for contact and booking details
Group Activities
The group has facilitated many activities over the last 4 years in order to meet its objectives. Some examples of these are:
- Two awareness raising events in Inverness and Dingwall
- As part of a Joseph Rowntree funded initiative called "Standards We Expect" successfully helped deliver training on person centred working.
- The network has also been involved in Person Centred training with teachers and this has been followed up with a pilot project in a local school, in which young people had their 'school leaver transition meetings' run using the 'PATH' PCP tool:
All the young people involved were supported one-to-one to develop their 'DREAM'; asked who they would wish to help them move on from school/attend their PATH meeting, sending out personal letters of invitation; given their PATH at the end of the meeting; and (crucially), given continuing help to realise the various elements of their DREAM. - Hosted a conference on Transitions Its My Life, which was attended by over 100 people including people who use services, carers and professionals. See a short DVD of the event
Action Plan
The group has just recently produced a new action plan for 2009/10 and has recruited more people who use services to be involved in the network.
Download the work plans for:
Join the group
If you want to be part of this group then contact
- Karen Jackson, tel 0131 663 4444, email karen.jackson@arcuk.org.uk
- or Paul Garner group chairperson, email paul.garner@careers-scotland.org.uk
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