When Services End: Strengthening Community Through Systems Thinking

Participants will leave with one practical action they can implement to strengthen community-centered practice within their own role.

DESCRIPTION

Helping professionals are highly skilled at navigating services, yet lasting change often depends on what exists beyond them. This session explores how practitioners can strengthen natural supports, build community connections, and shift from a service-centred approach to one that creates sustainable networks around children, adults and families.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Apply systems thinking to better understand the ecological, social and organisational factors influencing outcomes for children, young people and families.

Critically reflect on current practice to identify opportunities to strengthen natural supports, community connections and protective factors alongside formal service provision.

Recognise barriers that contribute to fragmented service delivery and explore practical strategies to improve collaboration across disciplines, agencies and communities.

Develop practical approaches to supporting transitions by strengthening relationships and community networks that remain after professional involvement has ended.

Integrate ethical and strengths-based decision-making into practice by balancing professional intervention with empowerment, participation and sustainable community support.

PRESENTER

Annaruth Britton, MSW, RSW, RCC, believes some of the most important work Social Workers do happens outside the office and beyond formal services.

With over 30 years’ experience working across statutory, health and community settings in both the UK and Canada, she has supported children, young people, adults and families navigating complex systems and major life transitions. These experiences have shaped her passion for reflective practice, systems thinking and collaborative approaches that strengthen natural supports and improve sustainable outcomes. Her presentations combine practical experience, critical reflection and discussion that encourages professionals to think beyond organisational boundaries.

ZOOM

This event will be delivered on Zoom. Organizers will send you a confirmation email message including a link to join. If you don’t receive the email message, please check your spam/trash/junk folder.

DISCLAIMER

The educational material presented in BCASW hosted events is for general educational information purposes only and is solely the opinion of the author, presenter and instructor. No webinar is intended to provide professional or legal advice, and the material presented is not necessarily considered mainstream social work theory or practice. It is left to the discretion and judgment and is the sole responsibility of each attendee to determine what is useful for their own practice. BCASW cannot be held responsible for the material, opinions, or any inadvertent errors or omissions in the preparation or presentation of the material.