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Strengths


Julian Support made me feel at ease about my housing and I feel good about myself by noticing what strengths I have."

Julian Support was established on the principles of the strengths philosophy. We recognise that everybody has strengths and talents, whatever their particular circumstances.

We support people to recognise and develop their strengths so that they can make lasting changes in their lives. Examples of strengths that can help people to rebuild their lives are having a talent for seeking out opportunities, maintaining a positive focus, and being empathic, competitive or musical.

The strengths model is based on six principles (Morgan 1996):

  • The focus of the helping process is upon the client’s strengths, interests, abilities and competences, not upon their deficits, weaknesses or problems.
  • All clients have the capacity to learn, grow and change.
  • The client is viewed as the director of the helping process.
  • The client/worker relationship becomes a primary and essential partnership.
  • The helping process takes on an outreach perspective.
  • The entire community is viewed as an oasis of potential resources rather than an obstacle. Natural community resources should be considered before segregated mental health service.

As part of our focus on practical support tasks, such as housing and benefit issues, we ask people to start thinking about what their strengths are, how these have helped them in the past, and how they might continue to help them in the future. This enables people to develop confidence, self-esteem and key living skills.

As staff members we recognise that the strengths philosophy is not just true for the people that we support. We understand that as employees we thrive when we are recognised for the broad range of strengths that we as individuals bring to our work.

We continually seek opportunities throughout the organisation that allow our staff members to work to their strengths.