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Important announcement

The launch and availability on DVD of the new and profound film

'Knowing You Matter'

Frameworks 4 Change and East Sussex County Council successfully launched this important new film that is about ensuring older people retain a strong sense of identity in care homes.  It also highlights the principles of the Mental Capacity Act, raising key issues for people with dementia and their families.

Knowing You Matter is now available on DVD and as a training pack with an audio CD which enables trainers and facilitators to use the film as a catalyst for reflection on the purpose of care.

Click here to see clips from the film on the Knowing You Matter website and see what people are saying about the film.

WHAT WE DO

1. We invite all the people we work with to think in a 'community paradigm'. For many of the people we meet this is a shift away form 'service thinking' - this is the key shift for Personalisation to develop in the way its developers' intended.

2. We teach the foundations of togetherness - Presence, Compassion, Solidarity, Passion and Connection. We have learnt that these foundations create the kinds of relationships that are required for people to live great lives.

3. We employ diversity and equality facilitation so that all of the people we meet and work with are heard and invited to do their 'best thinking' leading to action that makes a lasting difference.

4. Embedding habits - we invite the people we meet to consider what habits are required to create and sustain deep change. We are aware that to begin to change is a challenge. Our learning tells us that to sustain it is even harder.

Our workshops, events and consultancy services are all based on these four strands which connect with each other to create the conditions for deep culture change.

WHO WE HAVE WORKED WITH
We have worked with organisations such as Grapevine, Mencap, the Department of Health, Turning Point, MCCH, local authorities and primary care trusts, POhWER, Southside Partnership, Action for Advocacy, Age Concern England, British Institute of Learning Disabilities, Southdown Housing, Parchment Trust and the Coventry Partnership Board. We have also worked with many other individuals and their families to create brilliant lives.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS WORK?
We are doing this because we are unsettled by the lives many people with learning disabilities and other marginalised groups still lead, and we believe more action is required - to change culture and address the deep-rooted power issues which keep people separate. The government White Paper, Valuing People (2001) invited a power shift which hasn't happened. Personalisation and Valuing People Now (2009) offer hope but we feel strongly that we must not allow more lives to be wasted.

Go to the testimonials page to read about the way we work and the impact we make.

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