Educational and training resources

Facilitating Community Spaces for Inclusion

pdf     Key Principles

 

What does it take and what gets in the way for people who are feeling isolated?

   pdf Reflection Questions

   

Foundational Assumptions for a Community Connector

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Strategies for Community Connection

19 strategies for encouraging community -pdf Download this paper

© A Place to Belong: An Anglicare Mental Health Network

   

Understanding Belonging: The “Iceberg” Model

“What makes life powerful is all that lies beneath...” - pdf Download this paper

   

Discovering a Person’s Gifts

A process for discovering gifts, interests and capacities - pdf Download this paper

   

What Can I do? Bridging the Gap in Community Connections

Clues for community connecting - pdf Download this paper

   

Belonging in the Community

Inclusion: How can it be encouraged? - pdf Download this paper
© A Place to Belong

   

Changing our ways of thinking

"How people are treated can depend on how they are seen and what roles and expectations are put on them"
Jeff Strully. -pdf Download this paper
DSQ Resource Paper, October 2000, Brisbane.

   

This work is more art than science


O'Connell, M. 1988. The Gift of Hospitality: Opening the Doors of Community Life to People with Disabilities. Centre for Urban Affairs and Policy Research. North-western University. Illinois. - pdf Download this paper

   
 

“It’s been an invaluable experience. Hearing the person's story and then having some pretty open discussion about how our lives can be different has given me hope”.
~ Comment from participant at a Sunday afternoon workshop