Learning Disability Emerging Plan - Turning Point

Turning Point Learning Disability Emerging Plan 2013 - 2016Tips for facilitating the workshopsDon’t have too large a group. We are looking for volunteers: Support Workers, Project Workers, Team Leadersand Service Managers. The volunteers need to be clearly briefed and come armed with views from their team asa whole (if this is possible)• n Set up a separate group with willing family carers and people with learning disabilities.• n You may need more than one shot at this, gauge your audience and take it slowly. Have plenty ofbreaks• n Once finished copy everything to each participant so they can see what was said and check theyare in agreement with your interpretation• n Send Ivan and myself your regions’ views and names of people who are willing to meet in a largergroup (one or two per region). It would be good to have family carers and people with learningdisabilities also at this larger one off workshop so we need to try and keep it small• n We will pay family carers transport costs and I am assuming people with learning disabilities maycome with staff to support them. We will pay for their transport costs also• n Take pictures of the day so we can evidence good involvement (obviously ask permission!)• n If you want I have information about good facilitation techniques, ice breakers etc let me know ifyou want this• n You may want a park board… one flip chart with park board written on it that you write upanything that comes up that is not directly to do with the questions, that way you can ‘park it ‘butnot ignore it. We can then have a look at them at the end• n You may want an ideas tree… draw a tree on a flip chart give people post it notes and during theday/coffee breaks if people come up with things they can place their leaf on the tree that waypeople can anonymously say things that they might feel they don’t want to say in a group• n If you do either please acknowledge what people have written at the end of the session and youmay find you have to encourage people to use them to begin with!Claire will very shortly be our full time Involvement Officer; she is here to support you so please make use of herfor these events.QuestionsHere is a list of suggested questions from which to formulate your workshop. You can ask others or ask them ina different way but I need the below ones covered.Questions to be answered• n What things do you think we are good at?• n What groups of people do you think we have particular skills with? (staff only)• n What are you proud of?• n If you had a magic wand what three things would you change?• n Do you think there are areas of work we should get involved in that we are not already?• n Do you think there are areas of work that we are doing that we should not be doing?• n What are the main priorities for the Learning Disability Business Unit?• n Give us your top three priorities29