Today was a great packed EDI lunch and learn session with our EDI lead Temba Mahari. A lot was learnt and shared

Great session with our EDI lead and Mental Health Assessment and Review Service (MHARS) and Homelessness Move on Team . They were reflecting & learning about unconscious bias within our sector.

My Team Around Me is an approach for working with people experiencing multiple disadvantage who need multi-agency support. How does it work? In Bristol, the Changing Futures programme is piloting the My Team Around Me (MTAM) approach as a way of supporting people facing multiple disadvantage. The approach is strengths-based and provides the client with a dedicated collaborative team to support their needs. We act on the principle of “nothing about me without me” so the client chooses who is in the team: professionals and any other people they want involved. The MTAM coordinator facilitates ways of working based on partnerships and collaboration. MTAM presents an opportunity for workers to join a cross-sector team of support around a client. Shared goals include: - Service continuity: professionals working across sectors commit to relational and service continuity through transitions. - Shared accountability: Learning together to do things differently through regular communication, shared safety and support planning. - Client-led, trauma-informed and strengths-based: building trusting relationships and working on strengths. - Influencing strategic approaches: creating systemic change by working in innovative and flexible ways that inform strategy and commissioning. T�he webinar will look at how our MTAM pilot is progressing in Bristol and will give practical examples of what each of these goals look like for the professionals involved. T�his webinar is relevant for anyone interested in learning about different approaches to working with with adults and young people facing multiple disadvantage: https://shorturl.at/mDFKZ