Simon Community Scotland

Day

Wednesday 11 February

Time slot

15:00-16:15

Room

Tinto room
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Nicole Don

Topics

Families & communities Equalities & human rights Impact & evaluation

Overall aim

• Understand the value of lived eperience: to show why and how incorporating the lived experience of individuals is essential for creating more effective, ethical, and impactful services, policies, and research.
• Explore co-production: to introduce and demonstrate practical tools for genuine co-production, moving beyond tokenism to facilitate meaningful collaboration between professionals and those with lived experience.
• Share best practices: to facilitate the sharing of success stories and lessons learned from existing gambling co-production initiatives, highlighting tangible outcomes achieved through this approach.
• Develop collaborative skills: to equip participants with the foundational skills necessary to initiate, manage, and sustain equitable co-production partnerships.
• Address ethical considerations: to explore the ethical responsibilities and safeguarding considerations when working with vulnerable populations in a co-production context.
• Identify barriers and solutions: to collectively identify common systemic and cultural barriers to implementing lived experience involvement and brainstorm concrete, actionable solutions to overcome them.
• Influence future strategy: to generate key insights and recommendations that can directly inform and elevate the strategy and design of future support initiatives.

Description

Are you looking to make your support services, educational materials, or policy development truly effective, ethical, and impactful?

This focused, practical event is designed for development across the sector who want to move beyond consultation to genuine partnership. "Elevating your work through lived experience" explores a shift in professional practice. Using the example of gambling harm co-production, we’ll delve into how this approach moves beyond consultation to create a genuine partnership where professional knowledge and lived insight are valued equally.

We will dive deep into the power of co-production, supporting lived experience to become the central driver of innovation and impact. It's time to recognise the expertise held by those with lived experience.

You will gain a deeper understanding of the principles, challenges, and immense rewards of co-creation. This session will inspire you to take an alternative approach to building trust, and ultimately design work that is more relevant, more ethical, and more effective.

Who is the event aimed at?

Development / Education officers, Frontline service delivery, Managers

Who is speaking at this event?

Darren Crocker - Programme Lead for Gambling Harms, Simon Community Scotland
Nicole Don - Creative Connector for Gambling Harms, Simon Community Scotland
Co-Production Panel