NEW - How does Local Area Co-ordination work?
How does Local Area Co-ordination work?
Local Area Co-ordinators take the time to get to know the individual and their unique circumstances, and work to build a relationship that is fostered on trust, understanding and without judgement.
Local Area Co-ordination is a person centred, strength-based approach to supporting individuals to find practical ways to do the things they want and or need to do, this can range from:
- Support in planning for the future
- To provide information, advise, and support.
- Support to meet new people and connect individuals with their local community.
- To follow strength-based approaches, to encourage and support people to make the best of their talents, skills and abilities and find ways to share them
- Support to ensure an individual’s voice is heard and advocate so that the individual can feel in control and make informed / understood choices
- To feel safe, secure, and more confident about the future and better connected with community resources and networks.
- To better engage in the community, support people to move from being a passive recipient of services to active citizenship.
- To access the right support and services in a timely way if required
- To support to navigate services.
- To explore low cost no cost community resources or solutions wherever possible.
- To identify gaps in services, opportunities, and feed this back into appropriate services or community groups
- To deliver the Local Area Co-ordination role specifically within a set locality and to hold an establish presence in the community and act as a consistent single point of contact.
Where is support provided?
Local Area Co-ordinators will meet with people within their homes and or local communities, they will engage with the person in their preferred style / choices (Whether face to face or phone / online contact)
Who can introduce someone to the Local Area Co-ordination team?
- Individuals are welcome to self-introduce
- Their GP or health organisations
- Social care
- DWP
- local Councillors
- council services
- health services
- Emergency services
- volunteer organisations
- community groups
Get in touch
Contact your local area coordinator if you think that you, or a relative or neighbour, could benefit from their help.