Summary of Session:

North of Scotland Public Health Network  (NoSPHN)

Delivering Asset Based Approaches for Public Health: Responding to the Challenge

Tuesday 27th March 2012: 10.30am – 4.30pm Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen (with remote access facilities)

For further details please contact  Alex Medcalf event administrator  alex.medcalf@nhs.net or on 01463 704930 or

Pip Farman event organiser at pip.farman@nhs.net or on 01463 704789

Information made available following the event:

Click here to access  Additional materials recommended at the event by Trevor Hopkins

Event Report (v15.05.12):  NoSPHN Asset Based Event Report 27.03.12 v final 280813

Let’s share our stories: at the Asset Based Approaches event on the 27th March colleagues agreed that it would be useful as a first step following the event to share our stories of asset based work.  The intention is to upload these to the website as they arrive.  Please send your stories to pip.farman@nhs.net or alex.medcalf@nhs.net and click on the link above to view the stories.

A new GCPH briefing paper ‘Putting asset based approaches into action: identification, mobilisation and measurement of assets’  has now been published.

The full report of the GCPH’s case study research, as presented by Jennifer McLean at the Event, has now been published – Assets in Action: Illustrating Asset Based Approaches for Health Improvement

Information made available for the event:

Programme: Final programme NoSPHN CPD Programme March 27th 2012 v22.03.12

Presentations: all available presentations for the day were uploaded on the 26th March 2012 (in handout format)

Morning presentations:

Trevor Hopkins: How did we get to here? Handout – Trevor Hopkins morning presentation NoSPHN 27 March

Afternoon workshops: 

1.  Jennifer McLean: Illustrating asset based approaches in action Jennifer McLean Asset based approaches case studies NoSPHN MARCH 2012 Final

2.  David Allan: Tools for building community assets – handout David Allan Asset-based approaches

5.  Trevor Hopkins:  What does success look like and how might we measure it? Handout – Trevor Hopkins evaluation workshop NoSPHN 27 March

Additional materials made available at the AECC on the day: (all available on request from pip.farman@nhs.net)

Golden Times SCDC poster

Mearns SCDC poster

Pilmeny Development SCDC poster

HIIC case study SCDC

Reference literature provided in advance of the event: Please find noted below a range of literature / links that participants may wish to view in advance of the event to support learning.  Please note it is anticipated that those attending will have an understanding of asset based approaches / work and the focus of the event will be to come to a shared understanding of asset based work and exploring key issues in terms of delivering the approach.  If you have further texts / references that you wish to share with others attending and are happy for them to be uploaded onto or linked from this site please email Pip or Alex (as above).

Please click on the links underlined to access the relevant paper / website (latest updates: Items 4 and 5 added and Item 10 updated on 19.03.2012; Items 7 and 16 added 20.03.12)

1.  Sir Harry Burns – CMO annual reports which highlight the policy context to the asset based approach  – ‘Chief Medical Officer Annual Report 2010: Assets for Health’, Chief Medical Officer Annual Report 2009

2. Asset Based Consulting – Trevor Hopkins (one of our presenters on the day).  Trevors website Asset Based Consulting –  with links under Resources to paper ‘A Glass Half Full’ (2010) and follow up paper  ‘What makes us healthy’ (2012).     A number of other references highlighted on the site may also be of interest.

3. Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) – with specific references and resources in relation to Asset Based Approaches  David Allan from SCDC will be particpating in the event.

4.  Health Issues in the Community – section of the CHEX website

5.  Community-led Health for All learning resource – SCDC learning resource launched 15.03.2012

6. Carnegie UK Trust Developing a Rural Community of Practice (Carnegie Trust) and specifially work on managing community assets (firery spirits)  Nick Wilding Carnegie UK Trust and Gill Musk from the International Association for Community Development  will be participating in the event.

7.  Appreciating Assets  report jointly published by the Community of Interest/Carnegie and the International Association for Community Development. It explores assets approaches in UK, Ireland and around the world. It can be read online / downloaded from www.fieryspirits.com or http://www.iacdglobal.org/publications-and-resources/IACD-publications

8. Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) – Asset Based Approaches For Health Improvement: redressing the balance  Jennifer Mclean from GCPH will be participating in the event.

9. Health Assets in a Global Context – Theory, Methods, Action.  Edited by Antony Morgan, Maggie Davies, Erio Ziglio.  Springer (2010) ISBN: 978-1-4419-5920-1 9 (nb costs are in the region of £100) this is a book, access is not available online but you may wish to purchase / source through library systems.

10. Antony Morgan – Associate Director, Centre for Public Health Excellence, NICE.   Thinking and Acting Differently: An Assets Model for Public Health  – presentation given at the Glasgow Centre for Population Health on the 25th January 2012.  (Please note your organisational IT policy may restrict /block access to the videostreaming from this website – you may require to get permission to view).

11. Contextualising salutogenesis and Antonovsky in public health development.  Bengt Lindstrom and Monica Eriksson Health Promotion International, Vol. 21  No.3 May 2006.

12. Range of Salutogenesis papers highlighted on Salutogenesis website

13. From Clients to Citizens: Asset-Based Community Development as a Strategy for Community-Driven Development.   Occasional Paper series, No.4 .  Alison Mathie and Gord Cunningham, St Francis Xavier University, Canada.  January 2002

14. New Economics Foundation – Towards an asset based NHS (2004)

15.  Asset Based Community Development Institute, Illinois

16.  Assets Alliance Scotland  SG update and  Assets Alliancance Scotland IFF report of event Dec2010