{"id":5,"date":"2011-07-08T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/assetmapping\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T11:34:11","slug":"mapping-assets-for-mental-health-and-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/assetmapping\/2011\/07\/08\/mapping-assets-for-mental-health-and-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s start at the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

This project is all about empowering people to think about all of the positive assets that they have in their lives and communities. It begins with the premise that, “you can’t know what you need, until you know what you have”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In order to start finding out about what exists in the local area, the project work began mid-June with a workshop that aimed to introduce staff (mental health practitioners from the voluntary, private and public sectors) to asset mapping as a way of working.<\/p>\n

Facilitated by SNOOK (http:\/\/wearesnook.com\/snook\/<\/a>), we spent time with the staff to share experience and practice across the different agencies, as well as exploring how this way of working is different from the techniques that they currently use to design services around the people that they support.<\/p>\n

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We worked together to have a go at asset mapping in two different ways. Firstly, to create a community map:<\/p>\n

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Then to explore the use of asset mapping for person-centred planning (where we worked together to create a person-centred map for me!):<\/p>\n

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Many of the participants thought that the asset mapping method could work well alongside the approaches that they are already using, although they did come up with applications that we’d never thought of! Ideas ranged from using the process as a useful way to reflect on progress with people using services, to seeing the world directly through the eyes of the user.<\/p>\n

There were lots of things that people liked about the use of the tool. These included:<\/p>\n