This position paper sets out the core aims, principles and insights of the Social Prescribing, Assets and Relationships in Communities (SPARC) Network. We argue that asset-based approaches to social prescribing can enable local communities to coproduce better health and wellbeing outcomes and systems change by creating a shared practice of partnership working and joint inquiry and learning driven by community assets and needs. We present our asset-based action research approach to creating conditions for SP stakeholders to build relationships, shared ownership, and pathways for systems change towards a social model of wellbeing.
The paper was presented at the Cross-Sector Social Interactions (CSSI) Symposium on “Partnering for Resilience and Transformation”, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 22-24 June 2022.
SPARC Position Paper June 2022.pdf (263.5 KB)
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social prescribing, health inequalities, asset based working, action research, community power, collaboration, evaluation, systems change