Innovation Exchange hosts a Festival of Ideas looking for 'high-potential innovations that personalise mental health support'. See http://bit.ly/3v349k. This presentation takes the Festival template and populates it with information about IFF Kitbag in this context. For further information visit www.iffkitbag.com
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1. Kitbag Kitbag supports people to look after themselves and
others, empowering both staff and clients to become agents rather
than victims in times of overwhelming change
2. The big picture www.iffkitbag.com I dont know how I ever
coped without the kit as now I know I never could as well again
Lifer, HM Womens Prison, Cornton Vale 3. Features, benefits and
needs
Needs
We are living in powerful times, eroding confidence and
stability. The mental health impact is huge and can feel
overwhelming for clients, staff and communities.
We need to develop the capacities to deal with 21st century
life effectively and reduce reliance on professional help.
We need interventions that can start small and scale up to
promote wider social and cultural change.
Features
Resources to develop individual and group psychological
capacity.
Helps people discover meaning and purpose and build
relationships based on mutuality and respect.
Design principles for services that nurture growth and
transformation.
Benefits
Increased capacity to thrive in powerful times (proven in a
variety of settings)
S ervices able to cope with higher demand at lower cost
Services built on mutuality and respect reducing risk of
dependency
4. Measures of success
Using Kitbag as part of their approach:
Clients develop meaning and hope, preventing relapse and
supporting recovery
People feel inspired, increasing staff morale and reducing
staff absence
Services create a life-enhancing culture, reducing demand for
professional help
5. Support
Start-up funding to launch the Kitbag range of resources as a
viable social enterprise
Staff in agencies (eg NHS, prisons, schools, social care) ready
to experiment with Kitbag as part of their offering, building on a
range of existing successful trials
Partners interested in using Kitbags underlying design
principles as a template for service transformation