Meet the team
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I oversee the delivery of the programme. This includes ensuring that Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, a trauma-informed approach, and Lived Experience are integral to everything we do. I bring our partners together to understand and engage with Changing Futures as I see it as a resource for the whole city to work more effectively to support people experiencing multiple disadvantage.
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With a wide and varied programme, my role is to support the bringing together of interdependencies and people and help to facilitate opportunities to create lasting legacy for people experiencing multiple disadvantage through our key areas of work.
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I am leading our Bristol MTAM Exchange; a forum which brings together practitioners, clinicians, managers, and senior leads from across the health, criminal justice, and social care sector to resolve system challenges and make improvements across the whole system.
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I support the Bristol Community Voice Team in building a network of lived experience groups and promote community, connection, and shared learning. We work with partner agencies and the lived experience network to enable creative coproduction initiatives - amplifying the voices of those who have first-hand expertise on what is needed to best support people experiencing disadvantages and health inequalities.
Our aim is to make Bristol a place where lived experience is not just heard, it is listened to, championed and meaningfully acted on. We hope to shift the power in the system, inspiring change for people experiencing multiple disadvantage.
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I have been involved in designing and delivering services for and with people experiencing the impacts of trauma, including substance use, homelessness, and social exclusion. At Changing Futures I am supporting some of our projects around coproduction, data and evidence, and how we bring teams together to address system wide challenges.
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I bring experience of having delivered system change programmes within the NHS, at Changing Futures I am leading a number of projects to support our wider goal of system transformation for people experiencing multiple disadvantage, including a data analysis project looking at Bristol Adult Social Care data, and developing learning and development resources for system partners.
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I collaborate with services to support clients in reconnecting with their interests and building recovery capital through meaningful community involvement. I map recovery opportunities for individuals experiencing multiple disadvantage, with a focus on fostering post-traumatic growth and promoting a vision of life beyond services.
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I work on our Eastwood Park release Pathway, it is my role to work with professionals to identify women who are being released and have experienced multiple disadvantage. We then work together to ensure collaborative and trauma-informed practice in the My Team Around Me approach.
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My role is to support the day-to-day operations of the team, to help everything to run smoothly and efficiently. I provide administrative support, coordinate internal processes, and help to maintain clear communication across the wider team.
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I support the team to set goals, stay on track, and deliver positive outcomes for people experiencing multiple disadvanatge and for professionals working across Bristol. I keep our funders up-to-date with our progress and support the Leadership team to make sure our work is sustainable.
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I support the MTAM Practice Team to co-create multi-agency teams with the clients identified from our four pathways, making certain that all interactions are trauma-informed and EDI informed. I work alongside other agencies to incorporate identifiable aspects of MTAM within their work, addressing any queries, and ensuring fidelity to the approach.
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I help us to learn both from and with our colleagues across the city whilst supporting people to identify and share knowledge, creating learning spaces designed to building relationships and foster collaboration.
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I support the Changing Futures team to evidence our impact.
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I am seconded from Bristol City Council to work with Changing Futures as a link between adult social care and the team. I facilitate the Practitioner’s Forum within the MTAM Exchange.
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I work within the Homelessness Pathway supporting professionals to identify clients who are experiencing multiple disadvantage, and as a result are struggling to move through the pathway. Through applying the My Team Around Me approach, we aim to build a strong support network around clients to address the vastly multi-faceted issue of homelessness in a way that is trauma-informed and collaborative.
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I work within the MARAC Pathway, where I support individuals experiencing domestic abuse, exploitation, and multiple disadvantage. Through close collaboration with professionals across services, we use the My Team Around Me approach, to ensure support is shaped around each person’s unique circumstances. Our goal is to shape the system around the individual, rather than expecting them to fit into it.
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I am allocated to the Adult Social Care Safeguarding Pathway which means that I sit in Bristol City Council's MASH meetings to identify clients who have higher levels of multiple disadvantage and who may benefit from the My Team Around Me approach. I connect with professionals across a multitude of organisations and services and bring them together to support the clients in a client-led, trauma-informed and strengths-based way.
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As a coproduction service coordinator, I am deeply committed to embedding lived experience into every aspect of service design and delivery. With a strong belief that those who use services are best placed to shape them, I work collaboratively with individuals, communities, and professionals to ensure that voices are not only heard but actively influence change.
Sophie.Dawes
@ChangingFuturesBristol.co.uk
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In the Bristol Community Voice team, I help to amplify the voices of people with both lived and living experience and champion meaningful, authentic coproduction across the city. We support commissioners, organisations, professionals, and lived/living experience representatives to engage fully in trauma responsive coproduction. Combining both learned and lived knowledge and experience positively impacts services and influences system wide change.