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Guidelines on working with community organisations for psychologists and checklist on community involvement

REQUEST FOR HELP AND FEEDBACK

I have been working with Sarah Menzies and colleagues at the Evelyn Oldfield Unit in London to develop two tools - (1) guidelines for psychologists working with community organisations and (2) a checklist that teams can use to determine to what extent they are involved in their local communities.

In May 2014 we had a meeting with a number of community psychologists in London where we discussed what elements to include in these tools - a meeting which we hope has steered the development so far but now we need additional feedback to take things forward.

At this stage we would like to send the tools as drafts out into the wider world - We want them to be widely applicable and useful and are seeking feedback and ideas from YOU to improve them. I have attached them both here and would really appreciate any feedback or ideas - everything is open to discussion and change. We are also looking for specific examples to include in the guidelines of innovative projects that illustrate some of the points raised. If you have a project that you are working on that offers an example of this, please do send some details through to me.

I am hoping that it may be possible to run a workshop about this at the festival of community psychology on 20/21 November and hope to meet some of you there and use discussions in workshop for taking further steps in moving towards a final version of both tools.

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Permalink Reply by Samantha Man on November 23, 2015 at 18:06

Hello! I've just seen a post on the mail list about this and prompted me as I had downloaded the documents a few weeks ago and haven't yet got round to them. I just wondered as the festival has passed whether you are still looking for views?

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Permalink Reply by Kate Thompson on November 25, 2015 at 13:38

Yes please - I am still views and examples to illustrate the points in the guidance. Please do get involved. Kate

Samantha Man said:

Hello! I've just seen a post on the mail list about this and prompted me as I had downloaded the documents a few weeks ago and haven't yet got round to them. I just wondered as the festival has passed whether you are still looking for views?