Dear all

Details of the next London Community Psychology Network Sessions - please do join us, all welcome! Please also send round to your colleagues, networks, community organisations you work alongside etc. We want as many voices and people involved as possible.

Thank you!

Next Community Psychology London Network Session

A message from Kate Thompson and Sarah Menzies about this session and thank you to them for leading this...

DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE JOINT WORKING - PSYCHOLOGISTS AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS

Date:   Tues 20th May 2014
Time:   18.30-20.30
Place:  Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA

Kate Thompson (Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust – Refugee Support Psychology Service) and Sarah Menzies (Evelyn Oldfield Unit – Supporting Women Project) are looking for help!  We want to develop best practice guidelines for effective partnership working between psychologists working in the statutory sector (and other settings) and community organisations.  We are wondering if you too are noticing the strain that austerity is putting on small community based organisations, as well as on psychologists in a more target driven climate. How can we maximise the benefits of our joint working?  And perhaps even sell them to the high ups?

We would like to talk to you about this in an interactive meeting where we will be joined by representatives from some local community organisations,  with a view to developing guidelines that we hope the BPS will publish to guide work going forward. We are also hoping to develop a toolkit that teams can use to evaluate how community driven their services are.

Please come along and take part, bringing all your examples of success and challenge so we can learn from you!