BARNSLEY FEDERATION OF TENANTS AND RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONS
“Working together
to promote shared
values
in the
interest of all Barnsley Tenants and Residents”
What does Resident Involvement and Empowerment realy mean?
There are various definitions of ivolvement, but today involvement really includes:
- all of the activities and processes that a housing organisation uses to help it to know what it's residents and communities want
- all of the different ways people can get inovolved, if they want to, - giving and receiving information, being consulted, influencing decisions and joint / devolved decision making
- The systems providers have in place to ensure accountablitiy to their tenants and communities.
What is empowerment? Here is one defintion . . .
'Empowerment is when people feel they can influence the decisions
that impact on their lives and are provided with meaningful opportunities to
make this an actuality not a mere possibility'
McLean and Andersson, 2009 p13 MORI and Involve quoted in Engating with
communities - lessons from the frontline Thomas Newmark 2009.