Building Community Capacity
Building community capacity describes the process of helping a community to support itself.
KEY RESOURCES
Engaging and Empowering Communities - a shared commitment and call to action
A document that offers a compelling case for working collaboratively to create strong and empowered communities that are central to the transformation of the health and care sector.
Developing the Power of Strong, Inclusive Communities
A framework to support health and wellbeing boards fulfil wellbeing and prevention duties outlined in the Care Act.
Collaborative Healthcare guide
A guide that looks at supporting CCGs and HWBs to support integrated personal commissioning and collaborative care.
Are we there yet? A planning tool and checklist for building community connections
A tool to help organisations assess their own capacity building activities in relation to older and disabled people.
Evidence, efficiency and cost-effectiveness
This paper collates the evidence that illustrates improved outcomes and financial gains of developing strong communities.
Does it work? A guide to evaluating community capacity initiatives
This guide will help with evaluating projects/services and the impact they have on cultivating 'social capital'.
BCC Empowering Communities regional events July 2015 - presentations
Five presentations from the regional Empowering Communities event that took place in July 2015.
Webinar on Reimagining homecare - Wellbeing Teams
A webinar which covers alternative models of homecare such as Wellbeing teams, Community Circles and what commissioners and providers can do to move in this direction.
Case studies
BCC resources of additional interest
- Resource Overview: September 2015 BCC Network event
- Video: Touch Base South East - Personalisation for individuals who have sensory impairments with additional learning and other associated disabilities. (opens new window)
- Video: Doncaster Social Prescribing - The story of Joan and Badger (opens new window)
- People, places and possibilities: Progress on Local Area Coordination in England and Wales (opens new window)
- Health and wellbeing: a guide to community centred approaches (opens new window)
- Inside out and Upside down (opens new window)
- Lanscapes of helping: Kindliness in neighbourhoods and communities (opens new window)
- A Glass Half-Full - How An Asset Approach Can Improve Community Health and Well-being (opens new window)