Cr Crea eating ing cond condit itions ions & & red - PDF document

Cr Crea eating ing cond condit itions ions & & red educing ucing cha haos os g g FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CREATION by connecting, enabling and listening

Dr Jonathan Stead The three wise men who’ve led me to C2 and community health creation… Dr Jonathan Stead Prof Kieran Sweeney Sir Harry Burns

UK sites Timmergreens Ti Hawkhill Ha WDi40 WD Mansfield N. N. Shelton, No Normacott, , E. E.Fenton,Middleport, Daybrook Chadsmoor Portland St Wi Po Willowbank & Pye Wi Winthorpe Green Pa Partnership Sm Smiths Wood Southend an and Chelmsley W’fleet2gether Ivy Ivy Wo Wood Pa Partnership Putney Vale Pu Partnership Pa TR TR14ers Ne Newington Beacon Community Be Community Co St St Re Regeneration Pa Partnership Un Unity Bu Budeaux Cliftonville Cl ABC AB Re Redruth North Partnership Pa Ha Hand in Hand Ha To Townstal Community Pa Partnership

Beacon Community Regeneration Partnership, 1995 and still going strong “ We thought we were doing up houses but we were doing up lives” Grenville Chappell Co-ordinator of Beacon Partnership • Ov Overa rall crime ra rate down wn 50% • Un Unemployment down wn 71% • Im Improvement to 1000 homes • Ed Educa cational attainmen ent 100% 100% • Ch Child pr protection do down 42% • PN PN Depression do down 70% • Ch Childhood asthma down 50% • Te Teenage pregnancy zero

REBIRTH OF COMMUNITY SPIRIT JANUARY 2000 ¨ Gardening & handyman service ¨ Coach outings ¨ Jumble sales ¨ Bungee jumping ¨ Luncheon club ¨ Gardening competitions ¨ Pig racing! ¨ Cookery classes ¨ Arts and Theatre ¨ Community Resource Centre

Community Self-organisation NOT projects! — Spontaneous ‘coming together’ of a group of citizens — Not directed or designed by someone outside the group — The group decides what needs to be done, how, when … — Often a powerful source of innovation (Kauffman, 1993, Mitleton-Kelly 2003) 6

So what’s the link between strong, self-managing communities and health inequalities? Compelling bio-chemical evidence that: • Failing to manage your environment causes chronic stress leading to poor health behaviours • Raised cortisol levels block the brain mechanism that signals feeling full • Chaotic early life changes way the body functions and the brain develops • Having no sense of influence or control in decision making about where you live, seriously harms health.

For the creation of health..... .... .... the s social a l and p physical e l environment m must b be: • Comprehensible • Manageable • Meaningful or the individual experiences chronic stress ( Aaron Antonovsky)

SMOKING ALCOHOL INACTIVITY OBESITY PO POWERL RLESSNESS HO HOPEL ELESSN ESSNESS ESS DI DISCON ONNECTEDN DNESS PA PASSIVITY

“Health creation is the enhancement of health & well-being that occurs when an individual or community gains a sense of mastery over their own lives & environment.” Hazel Stuteley Feb. 2016

Tr Trojan Mouse If If you’ve been inspired by health creation please join us in the NCE www www.nhsa sallia lliance ce.or org NE NEW NH NHS ALLIANC