Recognising people as assets:
Healthy Valleys sees people as equal partners in the design and delivery of services we offer, not passive recipients of them. Building on people's existing capabilities: rather than starting with peoples' needs (the traditional deficit model), means they are involved in addressing issues affecting their own lives.

Facilitating rather than delivering:
Although we deliver a range of services, Healthy Valleys staff see their role primarily as facilitators and catalysts of change rather than just providers of services.

Enabling Improvement in Lifestyles:
Aiming to make a real and demonstrable difference: addressing the culture of low expectations from life; lack of physical activity and improving social substance misuse (effects of drug and alcohol misuse, smoking).

Improving Information:
We believe that people cannot make changes in their lives if they don't have the information easily accessible.

Partnership
Healthy Valleys seeks to work in real and meaningful partnership with others in any area it develops a service in.

The Social Model of Health
A social model of health considers the interrelationships between social, mental and physical dimensions when considering health and well-being. This is not about fixing disease.

Community Development Approaches
At the core of community development lie values of equality, social justice and collective action, seeing the solution rather than the problem in the assets of the community.

Co-production
We believe that genuine joint design and delivery of services between ourselves, the individual recipient and other providers from the third, statutory and private sector is the best way to reduce health inequalities. We believe that real change occurs when individual people in local communities are at the heart of service planning, delivery and evaluation. co-production is about a mutual and reciprocal partnership, where professionals and people who use services come together in an interdependent relationship recognising that each are invaluable to producing effective services and improving outcomes.

Early Intervention
Working with people and communities to help create healthy communities that prevent health inequalities developing rather than trying to fix a problem.

Social Enterprise
We are seeking to find ways to generating our own income to become more sustainable, to help us generate more free reserves to invest in addressing local need.

Recognising people as assets:
Healthy Valleys sees people as equal partners in the design and delivery of services we offer, not passive recipients of them. Building on people's existing capabilities: rather than starting with peoples' needs (the traditional deficit model), means they are involved in addressing issues affecting their own lives.

Facilitating rather than delivering:
Although we deliver a range of services, Healthy Valleys staff see their role primarily as facilitators and catalysts of change rather than just providers of services.

Enabling Improvement in Lifestyles:
Aiming to make a real and demonstrable difference: addressing the culture of low expectations from life; lack of physical activity and improving social substance misuse (effects of drug and alcohol misuse, smoking).

Improving Information:
We believe that people cannot make changes in their lives if they don't have the information easily accessible.

Partnership
Healthy Valleys seeks to work in real and meaningful partnership with others in any area it develops a service in.

The Social Model of Health
A social model of health considers the interrelationships between social, mental and physical dimensions when considering health and well-being. This is not about fixing disease.

Community Development Approaches
At the core of community development lie values of equality, social justice and collective action, seeing the solution rather than the problem in the assets of the community.

Co-production
We believe that genuine joint design and delivery of services between ourselves, the individual recipient and other providers from the third, statutory and private sector is the best way to reduce health inequalities. We believe that real change occurs when individual people in local communities are at the heart of service planning, delivery and evaluation. co-production is about a mutual and reciprocal partnership, where professionals and people who use services come together in an interdependent relationship recognising that each are invaluable to producing effective services and improving outcomes.

Early Intervention
Working with people and communities to help create healthy communities that prevent health inequalities developing rather than trying to fix a problem.

Social Enterprise
We are seeking to find ways to generating our own income to become more sustainable, to help us generate more free reserves to invest in addressing local need.