Resources

Getting your head around brain injury: What we did next

Published 2012. A report from the Brain Injury Experience Network in West Dunbartonshire. It tells the story of the dissemination of their DVD, which described the experiences of some members of BIEN and gave advice to other people living with an Acquired Brian Injury and their families. Published in 2011.

People Having More Choice in their Lives

Making a Contribution and Being Well

Published 2012. The West Dunbartonshire Mental Health Consumer Issues group commissioned Outside the Box to identify the support needs for mental health service user and carer volunteers, and to provide guidance on supporting volunteers in their role.

Having Different Conversations

Published 2012. These checklists are intended to help individual people who are volunteers and projects which work with volunteers work out what support and information they would find helpful. There are also checklists to help other teams think about what they can do to support volunteer activists and respond to the issues that people are raising. They were created as part of the Making a Contribution and Being Well project in 2007.

Having Different Conversations

People Working Together – Event Report

Published 2012. Report from an Outside the Box event in September 2011 which brought together people who use social care services who are working together to deliver services or create more opportunities for them and other people.

Having Different Conversations

Working Towards – Influencing Change

Published 2012. Explains how individual people or groups can make change happen. This can be when you start something yourself. Or it can be when you want to get an organisation that provides services to change the way they do something, or to start doing something different. Or it is when you want to influence the decisions that are made about services or policies that affect lots of people.

Creating Inclusive Communities

FAST Wee Day In Report

Published 2012. This report describes what happened at an event run by the FAST group and Outside the Box. We hope it gives people in West Dunbartonshire and in other areas ideas about what you can do to develop opportunities for people who have lived with a drug or alcohol addiction to contribute to making life better for themselves and for other people.

People Having More Choice in their Lives