Tyze Personal Networks

Tyze Personal Networks are personal, private, secure, online networks that coordinate care and contribute to improved health and social outcomes.

Web links:

• www.tyze.com
• www.naaps.org.uk
• www.SharedLivesPlus.org.uk 

Their primary beneficiaries are people undergoing treatment for critical illness, seniors, and people with disabilities, as well as the home health care, government, and caregiving agencies that provide support for them.

Tyze is pioneering a progressive model for facilitating care by corporate and social values. It works with organisations that recognise the need to use new tools to bridge formal and informal systems of care.

It was created by the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities, their families, and their communities. PLAN's 20 years of experience building real-life personal networks has shown that people who are supported by a caring network have better health, employment, and education outcomes and require less medical care and social services support.

Shared Lives Plus is the UK network for Shared Lives and other small community services. Shared Lives Plus is the UK partner for Tyze. Tyze and Shared Lives Plus aim to establish Tyze in the UK as a self-sustaining social enterprise, marketing Tyze personal networks to individuals, families and organisations working in care and support.

The Award: Tyze Personal Networks has been awarded £75,000 to launch in the UK, working with NAAPS, the UK network for family-based and small-scale ways of supporting adults.

Contacts

• Alex Fox: CEO alex@sharedlivesplus.org.uk
• Vickie Cammack: President and CEO, vickie@tyze.com