social mirror for social prescribing
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Social Mirror for Social Prescribing
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• The RSA is a charity devoted to finding innovative, practical solutions to today’s pressing social problems that aims to build a progressive, inclusive and capable society.
• We inspire public discourse and critical debate
– The UK’s best free public lecture programme with over 150 events a year – Our RSAnimates have a viewership of over 50 million people
• We have an international Fellowship of over 27,000 achievers and influencers
from a wide array of backgrounds and professions – This provides an opportunity to build momentum around new ideas and create
innovative solutions
• The RSA Connected Communities team has pioneered the use of social network
analysis as means of achieving social policy outcomes. – The RSA is currently piloting social network-based interventions to increase wellbeing in
seven sites in deprived areas of England, and Social Mirror builds upon this work
The RSA
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“If we wanted to get people to quit smoking, we would not arrange them in a line and get the first one to quit and tell him to pass it on. Rather, we would surround a smoker with multiple nonsmokers, perhaps in a squad…”
Why Networks?
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Remember This?
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Area 1
• fifth of people with no qualifications (13% national average)
• %age of people with problems with writing 38% higher than national average
• only 3% people belong to formal group with neighbours
• teenage pregnancy rate 71 per 1,000 (national average 42)
• 18% of people feel ‘very unsafe’ after dark (twice national average)
A quick quiz…
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Area 2
• almost half the population are educated to degree level or above (29% national
average)
• over ¾ with broadband/dial-up at home (70% national average)
• a rich, empowered third sector infrastructure with a community forum of over 70 organisations/activists
• 95% of people undertaking recommended amount of exercise (national average); 90%
people with health improving/same (80% nationally)
• 40% reduction in people feeling very unsafe after dark
A quick quiz…
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Most deprived Deciles Least deprived
20% 40% 60% 80%
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Most deprived Deciles Least deprived
20% 40% 60% 80%
Area 1 Area 2
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What does a network perspective add?
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• unseen, untapped capacity in communities to address opportunities/problems
• higher social capital areas have better health, education, economic, crime, community
governance outcomes
• networks have dynamic qualities through which behaviour, emotional states, conditions, influence spread and cluster
• limits building of new community infrastructure on top of old, which is then marginalised and decays
• asset-based approach
• different conceptions of community within place based networks
• reduced public finances necessitate debate on what state should do for communities and what communities must do for themselves
Why Connected Communities?
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• The RSA is currently piloting
social network-based interventions to increase wellbeing in seven sites in deprived areas of England, and Social Mirror builds upon this work
• This is based on analyses of c. 3000 people’s social and community connections
Questions is: if your network map is a map of you, how do you get to read it?
Social Mirror: roots in reflexivity
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Social Mirror: roots in reflexivity
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What happens of this information is used by health professionals?
• Social connections influence our wellbeing and life outcomes
• Isolation is linked to health complaints ranging from depression (costing the economy £8 billion annually), to cardiovascular disease.
• Healthcare practitioners are charged with addressing such problems through social
prescribing but its use is patchy. • Current evidence shows positive health impacts, but the economic case for social
prescribing is thin.
• How can busy health practitioners know what is available in the community; how can the evidence be better collated?
Social Mirror for Social Prescribing
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• Working with the Knowle West Media Centre and local NHS
• Based on existing data:
Social Mirror for Social Prescribing
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• 150 users
• 85% reported positive experience of doing social mirror
• 10% report going to groups
• 43% feel differently about local area
• 40% inspired to go to more groups
• 64% first time they had received a social prescription
Pilot findings (in progress!):
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• 78% think is important or very important that Doctors issue social prescriptions
• 50% would recommend Social Mirror to someone else
• 25% reported an increase in their wellbeing
• 30% have said it made them feel more part of their community
• 35% said it made them feel closer to their local area
• 60% said it made them feel like they knew what is happening locally
Pilot findings (in progress!):
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Pilot Stories
“I can’t say enough about it because it has changed my life. If I hadn’t done it I wouldn’t have known about these walking groups. After I retired I felt like a recluse, three days a week I didn’t go out of the flat. I’ve now lost a stone in weight, I can talk to people quite freely which I didn’t before. I’ve stopped drinking alcohol - I don’t need it to help me sleep as the walks tire me out.” Participant, male, aged mid-60s.
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Pilot Stories
“Social Mirror has made a massive impact in my life because when I moved here I had nobody and nothing. Going to groups through Social Mirror started the ball rolling – I’ve been going to groups for my children and for myself, I’ve made friends, and I know the area better. My life is a lot happier and more content now and I don’t feel so lonely.” Participant, female, aged mid-20s.
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What this matters: 5 community questions
Do you have social
support?
Do you feel part of your local area?
Do you feel you have a
voice?
Are you vulnerable,
locally?
Do you feel you can make
choice?
Is there anything
blocking you?
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The Power to Create and Local Agencies
Network Weaving
Brokering
Capacity Building
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Community
People
Spring-boarding
The Power to Create and Local Agencies
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Thank you!
Gaia Marcus
Twitter: la_gaia