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Do you have care experience, have a passion for animals and would be interested in joining the group?

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Do you have care experience, have a passion for animals and would be interested in joining the group?

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If so contact Jenny@staf.scot or 07572201644

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The group is set to met in February to continue doing creative work like the survey

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The group is set to met in February to continue doing creative work like the survey

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All our findings were put on our website ( click below to see the letter and full findings document)

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Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum)

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We, The Catalysts (the group behind Project Return), are writing this update to inform the care community of the importance of pet love and why having a pet is really important. We created a survey was filled in by 54 people, young people, workers/ family members/ carers, organisations and MSPS that's allowed us to better understand the dynamics and people's experiences of having a pet in the care system and social housing. We now have the results of this survey and we wanted to share them with you through our eyes using pet infographics. We hope you enjoy reading them and if you're interested in helping us create change in how pets are supported in care then get in touch with Jenny or come along to our change session on the 24th of November from 3.30 until 4.30. Thank you for your time. Best Wishes, The Catalysts
What did we found

Below are the infographics that The Catalysts, the care experienced steering group behind Project Return have created. These show what the different groups who filled in the survey told us about their experienced and the changes that were called for. We have also included our full findings document so if you want to see all the results the survey uncovered then please give it a read.
Pets in Care survey infographic Pets in Care survey infographic (MSPs and Councillors) Full results
What happens next

We spoke at a Staf webinar on the 28th of October where we creatively shared our findings and created a collective action plan for moving this work forward and creating the changes people in our survey told us needs to happen so more young people can have pets in care.

Our next steps will be to create a guide for both young people, workers and organisations so they can have honest conversations and be equipped to create action plans to support having pets in care. We will begin our creation journey for this on the 24th of November from 3.30 till 4.30 by co-productively bring voices together monthly.

If you think you have something you can add to this conversation and you'd like to meet others who are passionate about the therapeutic relationship of animals then please get in touch with Jenny, Project Return Development Worker on [email protected] .

We can't wait to create change through empowering those with lived experience and are excited to see what a creative and effective resource we can make for all those who have a role to enabling relationships with pets to be supported in care.

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Pets in Care: Project Return's survey findings

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We, The Catalysts (the group behind Project Return), are writing this update to inform the care community of the importance of pet love and why having a pet is really important.

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We created infographics to show the survey answers (scroll down to see these)

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A member of the group wrote a letter which was sent around the care community encouraging them to complete the survey

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together we  designed the survey live using Typeform-  choosing the questions, answers, and images in the survey

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together deciding who, what, where and when the survey should look at

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running an upskilling training session for the group where we looked at how to do research, types of data and how to analyses your research findings

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4) We created an advisory group to make the actions called for in the survey a reality

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4) We created an advisory group to make the actions called for in the survey a reality

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Below is the description written by The Catalysts to describe this group

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3) The survey ran from July until September 

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3) The survey ran from July until September 

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After this the findings were analysed and The Catalyst met to decide how we would like to showcase what we found

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2) At the end of June The Catalysts as a group designed a survey to understand individual experiences of having pets in care 

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2) At the end of June The Catalysts as a group designed a survey to understand individual experiences of having pets in care 

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We did this again using Zoom and collectively by :

( Scroll down to see all we achieved)

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1) One of The Catalyst ran a pottery zoom session in June 2020 

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1) One of The Catalyst ran a pottery zoom session in June 2020 

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At the session we discussed things that were important in our lives and made pots that represented what these things were. These are pictured below.

Pets were discussed within this and the barriers the group had faced in having pets and after a chatting we decided we wanted to do something about this and undertake research through creating a survey.