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Blog Post
Promoting Change Network: A Participant’s View
In light of our recent residential event, the Promoting Change Network, Sam Thomas who works for one of our partner organisations - Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) - has written his reflections on how it went: One of the big challenges for...
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News Story
How can we create a system that responds to human beings?
The answer should be simple, after all it’s in our DNA but in reality systems rather than the people who use and work within them have become the driving force behind them.
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Publication
Opening Doors, Changing Lives: Measuring the Impact of Cash Grants on Disadvantaged Individuals and Families
The Open Doors Programme aims to improve understanding of how accessing cash, alongside other support, helps to achieve sustained results for recipients and to give a sense of the magnitude and significance of the changes achieved. The report...
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Storytelling
Society’s expectations of you shape you
The first in the series examines the role of stigma in the lives of people who are experiencing multiple disadvantage and how the expectations family, friends and community can play a part in shaping a person’s identity.
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Blog Post
Hard Edges
12 stories. All from people who live on the hard edges of society. All from people who have faced hardship so extreme, you listen and can’t help to wonder how they are sitting in front of you today. All with aspirations. All with grievances....
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Publication
Promoting Change: The Voices and Needs of Sheffield Girls
Off the back of the Together Women Project (TWP)'s work with women, they have repeatedly found that many of the women they work with started taking turns for the worse around the ages of twelve to thirteen. As a result, TWP, with the support of...
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Project Summary
Transforming Choice
Provide a residential detox and rehab service for people who cannot be otherwise commissioned for because of their entrenched ill health and social disadvantage attributed to mental ill health and substance addiction.
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Project Summary
Social Finance
Development work to establish a number of Social Impact Bonds to reduce care entry for troubled adolescents and to prevent the associated negative outcomes.
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Project Summary
Noah Enterprise
Work to create pathways into employment for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.
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Project Summary
Local Solutions
An intense mentoring model of engaging and working with young people with multiple problems.