Connecting Roots: Co-creating a Green Social Prescribing Network in Walsall for Health and Wellbeing

根系相连：在沃尔索尔共同创建绿色社会处方网络，促进健康和福祉

• 批准号: AH/X000060/1
• 负责人: Qian Sun
• 金额: $ 18.21万
• 依托单位: Royal College of Art
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX000060%2F1
• 关键词: Connecting; Roots; Co; creating; Green

Spending time in nature supports both mental and physical health and has been one of the key factors enabling people to cope with the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is associated with a sense of gratitude and self-worth and can help people recover from stress and mental illness. This kind of experience with nature also helps to build a sense of place and community and foster feelings of belonging. GPs, nurses and other healthcare professionals can now prescribe nature-based activities, such as walking for health schemes and community gardening, to those who could benefit from them. This is called green social prescribing. There is growing NHS support to use it more widely, particularly for those with poor access to healthcare who often also access nature less.The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector delivers the majority of the green social prescribing services to local communities in the UK. These VCSEs are faced with challenges to grow so that a greater proportion of those in need can benefit from what nature offers. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, VCSE organisations are experiencing greater demand for their services. Significant barriers exist for many VCSEs acting alone to scale. Collaboration with each other provides one avenue toward much-needed growth in order to reduce fragmentation, duplication and inefficiency. It helps improve the collective impact of the sector and its sustainability, and creates many mutual benefits including providing access to expertise and resources, increasing reach, and improving internal processes. Our aim is to use design to support the scaling of green social prescribing services through (i) envisaging a system that creates the right conditions to best support scaling local green social prescribing at the system level; (ii) co-creating a green social prescribing network with local VCSEs in Walsall that improve the sector's collective impact and give voice to those who have been less heard. From the learning, we will (iii) devise the methods and make them widely available through engagement and dissemination. We have recognised the importance of a genuinely bottom up and place-based approach that considers the totality of local assets, including the realities of the physical locality and local lived experience. Therefore, through design, this project will engage people in an open dialogue that enables more diverse insights on the needs of different stakeholders to be shared and opens new avenues for developing visions, bottom-up policies and collaboration amongst these local VCSEs. This project will focus on Walsall as an example representing many deprived regions in the UK where public health is challenged by issues e.g. health inequality and physical inactivity that could potentially be addressed effectively through green social prescribing. It will be led by the Royal College of Art, in partnership with One Walsall, Active Black Country, The MindKind Projects, and Caldmore Community Garden to deliver a 12-month research programme. The main outcomes of the project are:(i) a system vision and policy recommendations to support scaling green social prescribing; (ii) a green social prescribing network in Walsall to support VCSEs to grow so that nature-based activities can benefit more people in need; (iii) methods and processes to scale VCSEs in green social prescribing through design that can be widely adopted.

花时间在大自然中有助于身心健康，是让人们能够科普COVID-19疫情压力的关键因素之一。它与感恩和自我价值感有关，可以帮助人们从压力和精神疾病中恢复过来。这种与大自然接触的经历也有助于建立一种地方感和社区感，并培养归属感。全科医生、护士和其他医疗保健专业人员现在可以为那些可能从中受益的人开一些基于自然的活动，比如健康计划步行和社区园艺。这就是所谓的绿色社会处方。越来越多的NHS支持更广泛地使用它，特别是对于那些难以获得医疗保健的人，他们通常也较少获得自然。志愿，社区和社会企业（VCSE）部门为英国当地社区提供了大部分的绿色社会处方服务。这些VCSE面临着增长的挑战，以便更大比例的有需要的人可以从大自然提供的东西中受益。COVID-19疫情后，VCSE组织对其服务的需求增加。对于许多单独行动的VCSE来说，规模化存在重大障碍。相互协作为实现急需的增长提供了一条途径，以减少分散、重复和低效率。它有助于提高该部门的集体影响力及其可持续性，并创造许多互利，包括提供专业知识和资源，扩大覆盖范围和改善内部流程。我们的目标是使用设计来支持绿色社会处方服务的扩展，方法是：（i）设想一个系统，该系统创造适当的条件，以最好地支持在系统层面扩展本地绿色社会处方;（ii）与沃尔索尔的本地VCSE共同创建一个绿色社会处方网络，以提高该行业的集体影响力，并为那些较少被听到的人提供声音。从学习中，我们将（iii）设计方法，并通过参与和传播广泛提供。我们已经认识到真正自下而上和基于地点的方法的重要性，该方法考虑当地资产的整体性，包括实际地点和当地生活体验的现实。因此，通过设计，该项目将使人们参与公开对话，使不同利益相关者的需求得到更多样化的见解，并为这些当地风险资本和社会企业之间的发展愿景，自下而上的政策和合作开辟新的途径。该项目将以Walsall为例，代表英国许多贫困地区，这些地区的公共卫生受到健康不平等和缺乏身体活动等问题的挑战，这些问题可能通过绿色社会处方得到有效解决。它将由皇家艺术学院牵头，与One Walsall，Active Black Country，The MindKind Projects和Caldmore Community Garden合作，提供为期12个月的研究计划。该项目的主要成果是：（一）支持扩大绿色社会处方的系统愿景和政策建议;（二）在沃尔索尔建立绿色社会处方网络，以支持VCSE的发展，使基于自然的活动能够使更多有需要的人受益;（三）通过可广泛采用的设计，扩大VCSE在绿色社会处方方面的方法和流程。

项目成果

Design for social imagination

社会想象设计

• DOI: 10.21606/iasdr.2023.392
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Sun Q

Green Social Prescribing in Practice: A Case Study of Walsall, UK.

实践中的绿色社会处方：英国沃尔索尔的案例研究。

• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20176708
• 发表时间: 2023-09-04
• 期刊: International journal of environmental research and public health