Work Themes
There are 10 planned work themes in 4 over-arching activity areas, linked to the wider resources of ISCRI:
1) Building the evidence base, nationally and internationally through academic and practice partnership.
2) Support practice development for inclusion outcomes through commissioned consultancy for local practice and shared learning; utilising locally the resources developed by NSIP.
3) Promoting leadership for organisational change by drawing out, connecting and enabling leadership for inclusion in NHS, social care and community agencies.
4) Engaging Communities by promoting local accountability to diverse communities and co-productive social networks of support and participation.
WORK THEMES
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Arts and Culture
Working with service user led organisations to raise awareness of the link between the arts, inclusion and wellbeing.
Developing the evidence base for health effectiveness through databases of good practice.
Supporting mainstream arts organisations to be more inclusive through brokerage and bespoke training (Open to All).
Child and Family Mental health
Supporting service development on child and family mental health.
Working to bridge the gap between child and and adult services, supporting services to "Think Family".
Connected Communities
Building capacity and evaluating effective social network models; enabling services to advance inclusion outcomes through lay engagement.
Linking with the work of the RSA (as an affiliated organisation) and using participatory mapping and analysis of specific social networks to look at how social capital and social networks can be better understood and used to promote civic capacity and inclusive communities.
Day Services
Supporting the thoughtful modernisation of mental health day services in line with national guidance and within a local context, ensuring day services facilitate the increased social inclusion of people with mental health problems.
A Research and Knowledge database, to provide information and support to people modernising day services at a local level.
The National Day Services Modernisation Network (in conjunction with Mind, Rethink and Richmond Fellowship), with a monthly e-bulletins, sent directly to over 650 people.
Education, Learning and Skills
Widening mainstream access; a continuing partnership with nine regional networks.
Employment
Working with service users; supporting improved employment outcomes through new approaches to stakeholder engagement, evidence and learning.
The Employment, Learning and Information Exchange Project is an Inclusion Institute and Department for Work and Pensions joint venture aimed at facilitating more effective information exchange and mutual learning in the UK mental health and employment sector at a local community level.
Housing
Inclusion outcomes in settled accommodation.
Personalisation and Commissioning for the Individual Citizen
In the community for inclusion outcomes.
Working with policy on personalisation to promote commissioning and service approaches that enable inclusion outcomes from individualised processes.
Primary Care
Developing approaches to inclusion outcomes and community partnerships at practice level.
Workforce
Developing the capable workforce and skills for leadership in services and communities through sharing ideas, strategies and successes in a collaborative environment.
A group of key professional bodies (RCN, BPS, COT, BAAT and RCP) is working with the Inclusion Institute to continue the interprofessional relationships started around the inclusion capabilities, and share the emerging good practice at strategic and practice levels.
Leadership
Working with a group of Foundation Mental Health Trusts across England, agreeing with local services ways to promote a socially inclusive workforce at all levels in the organisation, with access to tools and resources generated through NSIP.