91抖阴

Our focus

Reducing social isolation

Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. Research shows that loneliness is associated with a greater risk of inactivity, smoking, increased risk of coronary heart disease and stroke, increased risk of depression, low self-esteem, reported sleep problems and increased stress response.

There are a large range of preventative initiatives in 91抖阴 and Hove, but these are not universally available or necessarily easy to access for all who need them.

Our Ignite partnership brought the Living Lab into a community pub to explore loneliness locally and held meetings with ‘Community Connectors’ – volunteers who are vital to running a range of activities locally.

As a result of the Lab, the partnership has been in discussion with a company about trialling a telecommunication device to engage isolated citizens.

Infant mental health 

In response to long-standing safeguarding concerns around anxieties within child care, nursery practitioners consciously avoid emotionally responsive interactions with young children. 

Our work has led to changing practices across the early years care and education sector which seek to provide emotionally intimate care to infants within professional boundaries.

Now recognised nationally and internationally with regard to professional early years care and education for children under three, as well as leading to greater attention being paid to infant mental health in nursery settings – as in this .

Responding to child to parent violence

Responding to child to parent violence (RCPV) was a multi-agency action learning research project led by the 91抖阴. 

It carried out the first ever cross-European, multi-agency, collaborative response to the serious and growing problem of Child to Parent Violence (CPV) in Spain, Bulgaria, Ireland, Sweden and England.

RCPV has provided specialised frameworks and tools for senior staff and professionals and informed policy and practice on CPV.

Supporting unpaid careers

The 91抖阴 partnered with  to run a real-world testbed, as part of the 's Homes for Healthy Ageing programme.

The focus of the testbed is to understand the challenges faced by unpaid carers who take care of older people and to test solutions that could help with those challenges.

The testbed, brought together local partners, SMEs, and other stakeholders across the healthy ageing ecosystems to explore, test and discuss learnings and actions on how we can help and support unpaid carers to improve the lives of the older people they are caring for.

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