CO-PRODUCTION.
"Co-production is an asset-based approach that enables people with lived experiences to share power and decision-making responsibility. Working together in equal, reciprocal and trusting relationships to design and deliver support. This allows organisations and citizens to make better use of each other’s assets, resources and contributions."
- Roots and Wings
We work with marginalised communities, supporting them to co-produce the systems, services, and resources they access.
The scale to which those with lived experience are involved in designing the services they receive is key to making them as effective and efficient as possible. This involvement has evolved over time:
Inform > Involve > Engage
Co-production is the next stage.
Since our very first project in 2008 co-production has been at the heart of everything Roots and Wings has done. We believe that systems, services, and resources are most effective and efficient when they are co-designed by the communities that they serve through an iterative design process. We have been employed extensively as Co-production and PPIE partners by statutory organisations, funding bodies and third sector organisations.
CASE STUDIES:
NIHR
Co-designing a Co-design tool? Definitely a bit meta, but working with a group of researchers we co-designed a tool that helps other researchers plan their Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). Through an iterative design process involving extensive research and focus groups we produced a web-app for the National Institute for Health Research that can be accessed here:
PREPARING FOR ADULTHOOD (S.E.n.D.)
Through focus groups, workshops, and creative interventions, we worked closely with young people with SEND, their parents and carers, and relevant professionals in order to assess the services accessed by the young people when preparing for adulthood. As a collective, we co-produced service specifications for how services can better meet their needs going forward.
YOUNG PEOPLES MENTAL HEALTH
Working extensively with Young People who had experience of mental health services we delivered extensive creative workshops, focus groups, interviews, and group discussions to find the service improvements that would benefit young people, staff and commissioners.
Funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and working alongside filmmaker Julie Ballands this service design investigation looked at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Newcastle and Gateshead to inform the re-design of these services provided by both statutory and voluntary services.
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