Making Partnerships With Service Users and Advocacy Groups Work

Download or read book Making Partnerships With Service Users and Advocacy Groups Work written by Julie Gosling and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring book sets out how to make true partnership work. Built around the stories of real partnerships and written collaboratively with service users groups and individuals, it introduces the concept of 'growing spaces' where people can pool ideas, energy, skills and experience, resulting in joint effort and mutual reward. All the stages of making a partnership work are covered, starting with the growing conditions needed and how to sow the first seeds. Developing 'green shoots', which include confidence and trust, and signs of 'sickness', such as fear of speaking out, are discussed. The grassroots experiences which lay at the heart of the book exhibit an array of different forms of partnership and dispersal of good practice in action.