Further Information and Resources
This paper was commissioned by the Scottish Government in response to recommendation 1 of the Community-Led Supporting and Development Communities Task Group and written by SCDC.
Recommendation 1 proposes that further work be carried out to identify the 'logic' that underpins a community-led approach to health i.e. what outcomes can be expected from this way of working (what change this approach is intended to achieve) and what resources, methods and activities are necessary to achieve these outcomes (inputs, processes and outputs), in order to inform more appropriate and effective evaluation, and to provide the level of clarity required to support the integration of community-led health activity in local and national health improvement planning.
This paper is a response to this recommendation. It presents the broad rationale for a community-led approach and the broad "theory of change" that underpins the approach and that informs community-led health practice with the aim of aiding understanding about what community health initiatives 'do' and the contribution of a community-led approach and community-led health practice to achieving current health priorities.
LEAP is a planning and evaluation framework designed to support a need-led; outcome-focussed; participatory approach to change. LEAP for Health is designed specifically to support those working with communities to support health and wellbeing.
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