Learning outcome(s):

Can develop and implement innovative programming grounded in social inclusion principals.

Norwegian PLO #

#17 – Can apply professional knowledge to implement necessary measures, and/or treatment of social problems or refer on if necessary (Skills)

#22 – Has insight into the connections between health, education, work and living conditions, and can apply this in its service performance, to individuals and groups in society, to contribute to good public health and work inclusion (General Competence)

#42 - Can apply experience and professional knowledge to support and guide employees (General Competence)

#43 – Can reflect critically on own competence and adjust this under supervision (General Competence)

U.S. PLO# (Goal)

#2 - Use psychological, sociological, behavioral theory concepts and models to promote prevention, maintenance, rehabilitation and healthy human functioning (Apply Theory to Practice)

#5 - Apply ethical and professional standards to the practice of human services (Values and ethics).

#6 - Demonstrate ability to affect social change through advocacy work at all levels of society (Advocacy).

#7 - Integrate cultural values, knowledge, and practice skills (Cultural Competency)

General competence:

· Can develop and initiate an inclusive work program based in social entrepreneurship (L4)

Learning activity:

Read the following text (written by Mötesplats Social Innovation) and answer the question below:

Europe face several complex social challenges, such as social exclusion and segregation. Social innovation is seen by many as a useful method for tackling complex societal challenges and for working for a sustainable society. How can we create socially innovative solutions to these challenges, with many perspectives and partners? And how do we make the solutions last over time?

The European Consortium and the Building Capacity for a Sustainable Society (BuiCaSuS) project are working to find answers to these questions. One way is to present methods, tools and approaches, on how can organizations support social innovation processes, men who have it possible to support at the societal level.

35 good examples of best practice have been collected to show success factors for long-term societal change and to avoid pitfalls: 14 from France, 4 from Latvia, 7 from Spain and 10 from Sweden.

The social innovation process consists of the elements:

Identification and analysis of societal challenges,
Mobilization of actors and resources,
Idea generation – design, testing and adaptation of solutions,
Realization – implementation and upscaling, and
Creating societal changes.

Methods, tools and approaches to how each element can be supported varies, but they often share the same characteristics as cross-sectoral cooperation or co-creation and community engagement.

Hers are some examples of how each element I socially process can:

1) Identification and analysis of societal challenges

Gather knowledge and analyze societal challenges and needs
A norm for mobilization of actors and resources

2) Mobilization and deterrence of actors and resources

State citizenship
Mobilizing resources

3) Idea generation – design, test and adaptation of solutions

Inclusive
Challenge silos and structures
Incubation program

4) Realization – implementation and upscaling

Strengthen your ecosystem
Identify and 200000
Facilitate the exchange of best practice and good practice
Winding up the politics of social innovation
Accelerator programs that support scaling social innovations
Design funding to support scaling of social innovations
Methods and knowledge of how to support social innovations for innovation and business promoters

5) Create societal change

Impact assessment tools
Support your evaluation processes
Social Impact Assessment Resource Centre
Competitions, prices
Tools to validate to scale social innovations

More information about good practice can be found on the BuiCaSuS website. There you can download an Executive Summary in your own language (English, Spanish, Latvian, French or Swedish).

Study questions:

How would you develop and implement a social innovative programming grounded in social inclusion principals?
Prepare your answer for the lecture and some questions to ask Anne Merete to our meeting 28.9 at 10.00-11.30

Lecture:

Anngunn is Bipolar and lost her child in the first week. She has struggled a lot, but now she is a known photograper and has startet a walking photogroup with Eli Renate Kvarme. With her photography skills she is now able to provide photography lessons to others, after she joined a project by Anne Merete Bjørnerud.

Knowledge to increase employment opportunities of groups outside or on the margins of the labour market.

Professional development.
How to increase self-efficacy among participants – connect to (“den relasjonelle modellen for funksjonshemming”)
Process of creating work based on skills, passion, and interests