Resources

Support Choices – booklet

Published 2019. Support Choices is a project that helps people living in Perth and Kinross to get the social care and support that they need. The project began in Highland Perthshire. The project is a partnership between Outside the Box and the Care and Wellbeing Co-op. This complements an initiative based at the Carers’ Hub at PKAVS, which is giving family carers more information about how they can use the Self-Directed Support arrangements and get more support for the person they care for. Both projects are f

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Mums Returning To Work – Good Practice Guide

Published 2019. In partnership with early years childcare providers, Outside the Box has produced this guide and online training to inform businesses on the practical steps to support mums returning to work. For more information visit: www.mumsreturningtowork.org

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Intergenerational Cyber Safety

Published 2019. Working with all age groups to create a safe cyber environment - a presentation given by Police Scotland

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Sensory Changes presentation from Living Well with Dementia event – March 2019

Published 2019. Agnes Houston was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 13 years ago and found the biggest challenge to be changes to her senses. Agnes now campaigns for better awareness and care around sensory changes and the impact of this. This presentation, which includes some handy hints and tips was created by Agnes Houston and Kate Robertson for our Living Well with Dementia event on Tuesday 12 March in Birnam.

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A Guide To Asking Your MSP or Councillor – and other people – for support

Published 2019. Sometimes things in our community don’t work as well as they should, or we can see a gap in services that people need. In our Local People Linking project we have been talking with people about what issues affect them. All of the people we spoke to said that they wanted to make things better in their local communities, but lots of people didn’t know who to contact.

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Human Rights – How To Run Your Own Training Session

Published 2019. By working with different community groups, we learned how to run successful learning sessions about human rights. We are sharing what we did so people can hold similar sessions in their communities.

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