Category: Social-Community Supports

Component Evaluation: Role Play

Component Evaluation: Unity Housing – Role Play Timing: 30 Minutes Delivery: In-class These teaching resources were co-created by university instructors and “community experts”, people who have used mental health services. Community experts contributed ideas but also made their own components. The Unity Housing: A Better Way video is one of these components. Community expert Alex …

Component Evaluation: Themes and Analysis

Component Evaluation: Unity Housing – Themes and Analysis Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Write these themes on small pieces of paper: Supportive housing models with democratic processes Members as workers/staff Limitations of low levels of staff Peer support Voluntary participation Isolation and social exclusion Poverty Barriers to education and employment Then distribute these pieces …

Component Evaluation: Create a Commercial

Component Evaluation: Unity Housing – Create a Commercial Timing: 45 Minutes, flexible Delivery: In-class; Online Before your students watch the video on Unity Housing, split them up into small groups and assign each group a theme to gather insights about: Supportive housing models with democratic processes Members as workers/staff Limitations of low levels of staff …

Component Evaluation: The Valleyview Legacy

Component Evaluation: Moyra Jones – The Valleyview Legacy Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Introduce this exercise by asking learners to decide on 3 words that best describe Moyra Jones.  Then have students make a mind map or infographic that visually depicts core values embedded within the ideas and practices of Moyra Jones and her …

Evaluate: Dementia Selfie

Component Evaluation: Moyra Jones – Dementia Selfie Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online An adaptation of an exercise that Moyra Jones used in her 1990s workshop, this learning activity helps participants situate themselves in the position of a person with dementia. Have students either draw a self-portrait with their non-dominant hand or take a photo …

Components: Self-Guided with Video Clips

Components: Moyra Jones – Self-Guided Learning Timing: 60 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Innovation is a process that involves taking a new idea and giving it value, but it is also about recognizing moments and situations where change is possible, and working with established components to give them additional worth.  Successful innovation involves delivering a product …

Components: Self-Guided/ Lecture

Components: Edmond – Self Guided Learning/ Lecture Timing: 40 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Supported by the Learning Lens and Components in Context, these components and accompanying text provide instructors with the basic components for a lecture or a self guided learning session on Edmond Yu, PARC, and the challenges of providing good housing and social …

Component Evaluation: Place Short Paper

Component Evaluation: Place – 5 Minute Paper Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Use the Learning Lens and Components In Context sections as the basis for a focused 5-minute lecture to introduce learners and educators to the importance of developing PARC’s “living room” approach as a model of practice with potential applications within the broader …

Evaluation: Place Discussion

Component Evaluation: Place at PARC – Slideshow Discussion Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online PARC considers everyone and anyone who enters its doors to be a member, and in so doing fosters a sense of member-identity rather than a mental health client or service user-identity. Using the Hanging Out at PARC Slideshow, teachers and learners …

Components: Place Self-Guided

Components: Place at PARC – Self Guided Learning Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online “Hanging out” at PARC means something different every day. Whether members chose to play a game of pool, indulge in bingo, come together for movie night, or participate in sing-alongs, drumming circles or dances, PARC provides a space for both casual …