Systemic intervention: developing services with young people missing from home or care
Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Speaker: Gerald MidgleyDate: Wednesday, 07 December 2016 Time:17:30 - 19:30 (refreshments from 5pm)
This is a joint event between the Third Sector Special
Interest Group and the Yorkshire and Humberside O.R. Group.
In this presentation, Gerald Midgley will
discuss the methodology of systemic intervention that he has been developing
for over twenty years. He will focus on key aspects of this methodology, such
as the need for critical reflection on ethical and boundary judgements, and the
value of mixing methods from a wide variety of sources to ensure that
intervention is flexible and responsive to stakeholders’ concerns. The
methodology will then be illustrated with a case study of an intervention
conducted in Central Manchester, in which young people (under 16) and a variety
of agencies developed new ideas to support children missing from home or care.
The emphases will be on (i) how systemic intervention directs attention to the
need to amplify the voices of marginalised stakeholders (such as, in this case,
homeless children); and (ii) the value of mixing a variety of problem
structuring methods to promote co-operation and mutual learning in a situation
where multi-agency working was highly problematic.
For those wanting to read more
about systemic intervention prior to the presentation, you might like to have a
look at Gerald Midgley’s book—Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and
Practice (Kluwer/Plenum, New York, 2000). This not only
contains details of the methodology, but also presents four case studies of
practice, including the one to be discussed in this seminar.
Refreshments will be available from
5pm. Please book you ticket via eventbrite or
contact James Crosbie on jamescrosbie@hotmail.co.uk to
confirm your place. For more details about The OR Society's Regional Groups or Special Interest Groups please visit:
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