Community Power: The Evidence examines what community power looks like – featuring examples from across the UK and internationally.
This report draws out six benefits from community power – and presents four shifts and four recommendations we need for it to flourish. It also explores the ‘evidence paradox’ that is holding back community power – looking at how to overhaul the way we measure success.
As it states in the executive summary:
"At its heart, community power is based on the principle that communities have a wealth of knowledge and assets within themselves, which if understood and nurtured by practitioners and policymakers, has the potential to strengthen resilience and enable prevention-focused public services."
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Using strengths in communities is at the heart of the perinatal peer support model we share on this website. Parents 1st UK is honoured to be featured on p26/27 of this report.