Modernising Social Services: Community Resilience

Community Navigator

The Community Navigators aim to develop and support local networks and communities and promote a range of help available within the community to reduce the need for formal, planned support. The support from them will be empowering and enabling wherever possible and will promote independence, confidence and skills.

Community Navigators provide a link between health and social care, the citizen, their family and carers, and sources of support within the community. GPs are increasingly finding this service invaluable and the service has been described as ‘a mechanism for linking patients with non-medical sources of support within the community.

Community Navigators offer a different way for people to find out what help might be available or what they can contribute in their community to support their health and wellbeing. They work closely with health and social care teams and can be found within the Talking Points in your local area.

Dewis

If you prefer to look on line for sources of help or opportunities to volunteer, look on Dewis Cymru, the place for well-being information across Wales.

Dewis is the well-being website for Wales where information about ocal organisations and services can be found to help you maintain your independence and well-being.  To see what is available in a particular area that might be of benefit to you, your family members/friends or those looking after other people check out www.dewis.wales. As well as details about services and activities in your area it also has lots of really useful information.

There are currently over 3,500 resources on Dewis and it gets over 30,000 page visits per month and each person who goes on Dewis stays for over 5 minutes – that might not sound much but it’s more than a lot of websites get and it shows that people who come to Dewis are finding it useful – why not take a look yourself…..http://www.dewis.walesn/

If you think you need help or would like a discussion with someone, you can visit a Talking Point, contact the Single Point of Access on 0300 456 1000 or visit our website.