National project to roll out life story training
Your Story Matters is a national project developed by the The Life Story Network C.I.C* and funded by the Department of Health to support the delivery of new ways of working to realise dementia friendly communities with well trained staff. The development and use of Life Stories is one of the keys to delivering person centred care by placing the individual and their biography at the heart of care and support. It provides people with a practical set of tools to help them engage with the real person and see them beyond their illness, disability or diagnosis, thus ensuring that their basic human rights, are acknowledged and respected
Your Story Matters is to be delivered across England during 2011/2012. Your Story Matters will deliver training to 500 people across England by March 2012. There will be 2 courses-
- Introduction to the use of Life Story
- Training to be a trainer in the use of Life Story
Places on both courses will be allocated to ensure maximum opportunity for sharing of learning and spread of knowledge. Selection of delegates will be informed by role, organisation and geographical location, to ensure effective, sustainable spread across the country
Your Story Matters aims to:
- Establish a national network of people who are trained to deliver a training course on implementing the use of life story- through the facilitation of a managed learning network utilising action learning, coaching and peer support:
- Produce a comprehensive set of training materials to embed the use of life stories for paid staff, volunteers and carers;
- Support learning networks of people trained in using life story with the development of new materials and the dissemination of new and existing products, to intergenerational multi organisation work, voluntary groups, care providers.
- Deliver awareness and training on the Human Rights Act and the legal duty placed on public bodies to be compliant with the Act
Rolling out the training across England, it is envisaged that this will achieve sustainable transformational cultural change by engaging with leaders in organisations engaged in the training, such that providers will collect robust evidence on the effectiveness in the use of life story work and its contribution to;
- The reduction in the use of anti psychotics
- The delivery of the personalisation agenda
- Embedding a human rights based approach
- Influencing outcome based commissioning
Applications closed on 31 December 2011. Thanks for your interest
