Final Arch 24-25 pages - Flipbook - Page 20
Common Ambition
Co-production project
Common Ambition improves support
systems for people experiencing multiple
compound needs (MCN) in Brighton
and Hove through co-production and
advocating for lived experience voices to
be central to service and system change.
Arch is the lead partner of this project
and we are delighted to be working in
partnership with Justlife as well. The
project has been further developed
since its 昀椀rst three years of operation
and is now a model supported by The
Health Foundation. Additionally, the
project has been awarded service
contracts from Brighton and Hove City
Council’s Housing and Public Health
departments, Changing Futures and
Sussex Community Foundation.
This year the project has two distinct
programmes of work, one continuing to
focus on homelessness and health and
a new strand of work focussing on drug
and alcohol services and systems. In both
streams of work, the aim is to strengthen
systems to better meet the needs of
people experiencing MCN through the
co-creation of service ideas and models,
local system policy and strategy, and best
practice recommendations and training
with those who have experienced the
systems 昀椀rst hand. Common Ambition
achieves these goals using its own codeveloped, trauma-informed
co-production practice.
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Homelessness and Health programme
This programme of work is focussing
on improving homelessness and health
services as well as the wider system of
support. It is designed and delivered by
a steering group made up of people who
are experiencing or have experienced
homelessness, the Project Manager (from
Arch), and two Participation Leads (from
project partner Justlife). The group meets
for two hours each week.
This year has been full of achievements
resulting in real impact, and has been
marked by strong collaboration and
partnership working. We worked closely
with Brighton and Hove City Council’s
housing department to consult on the
Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
Strategy as well as reviewing the wider
housing service o昀昀er. Our co-designed
training for medical students was codeveloped (with Dr Kate Pitt from Arch and
Sara Emerson, Health Engagement Service
Manager at Justlife) into a mandatory
lecture and is now a permanent part of the
medical school curriculum. We partnered
with Imogen Blood Associates to evaluate
the Changing Futures Multiple Compound
Needs Multi Disciplinary Team pilot, leading
a peer-led evaluation process and sharing
our recommendations through a series
of collaborative sessions. We hosted
consultation events with frontline sta昀昀,
CEOs, and service managers to explore
the development of a homeless health
