The Integration StarTM

The Outcomes Star for refugees

The Integration Star is designed for use with refugees needing support to integrate into their new country and to build a new life there.

 

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Integration Star proves a hit

13th January 2021 No Comments

After a successful pilot with the Refugee Council, the Integration Star for refugees is now available for widespread use, with an introductory webinar taking place this February. What’s more, the Star is a great fit with the Home Office’s integration framework, writes Triangle’s research analyst Dr Anna Good.

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I like the way it opens up the conversation and gives you a reason to discuss different aspects of a client’s life, which can help identify issues that may not have otherwise been raised.
WorkerRefugee Council
It was a very good, comprehensive discussion of crucial aspects of one’s life and challenges.
Refugee
Completing an Integration Star has an empowering effect in that it gives clients a real idea of their progress and helps them to identify goals to work towards.
WorkerRefugee Council
It encourages the client to self-reflect on their own capabilities.
WorkerRefugee Council
It was easy to understand, and interesting to see where exactly I need more support.
Refugee
The Integration Star is a really powerful, clear tool that can visualise a client’s support needs. I found it a really effective way to determine in which areas a client would benefit from extra support. I think it provokes conversations that highlight support needs that may have otherwise been missed.
WorkerRefugee Council
It really encouraged the client to have more autonomy in the conversation – it brought them to the centre of the discussion
WorkerRefugee Council
The Star provoked conversations we wouldn’t normally have – like social isolation issues
WorkerRefugee Council
The Star gives organisations that work with refugees an extremely useful tool that can help to shape the support they offer as well as measure progress and impact. Successful refugee integration means that people are enabled to rebuild their lives and become active members of their new communities
Andrew LawtonRefugee Council's Head of Integration
This is such an important piece of work that feeds into the national strategy for integrating refugees. The Integration Star has already proved itself in a really rigorous pilot – now it can help in supporting refugees throughout the UK to build new lives.
Sara Burns Co-Founder and Director of Triangle
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Combining key-work support and outcomes measurement in one tool

The Integration Star helps refugee organisations and those they serve in two ways

  1. It is a key-work tool that helps to structure holistic, enabling, person-centred and strengths-based conversations with refugees
  2. It is a management information tool that provides valuable, real-time information on how each person is progressing. This information can be aggregated to give distance travelled data at both project and organisation level.

Developed with front-line refugee organisations

The Integration Star was developed by Triangle during 2020 in collaboration with the Refugee Council and Community Refugee Organisations. 

The framework and content were co-created in workshops with refugee support workers and managers and piloted by the following refugee services: 

RETAS (Refugee Education Training Advice Service) Leeds, Leeds Refugee Forum, Path Yorkshire, Goodwin Development Trust, Humber Community Advice Services (H-CAS), Refugee Action Kingston, Iranian Association, Diversity Living Services, Bahar Women’s Association, Action for Community Development, West Yorkshire Somali Association, DAMASQ, Stepping Stone 4 and Leeds Swahili Community.

The development of the Integration Star was part funded by the European Union Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund.

Based on the evidence base and psychometrically tested

The development process involved a full literature review of factors supporting integration as well as the testing of the psychometric properties of the pilot version.  We are now actively researching the psychometric properties of the final version of the tool and will be publishing a factsheet for this Star. Contact us for more information.

Aligned with the UK government Indicators of Integration

At the time of development the Home Office was working on a framework to support their integration strategy. The Integration Star was specifically designed to align with their Indicators of Integration.

A holistic tool which supports conversations and distance travelled measurement on:

  1. Housing
  2. Money
  3. Practical English
  4. Education and work
  5. Family and children
  6. Community and connections
  7. Laws, systems and services
  8. Health and well-being

Introducing the Integration Star

Triangle’s director, Sara Burns, introduces us to the Integration Star, taking us through how the Star came about with help from the Refugee Council, the eight areas that the Star covers, how integration is a complex and multi-facetted process, the key to the Integration Star’s success and how the Integration Star is different to the Planning Star.

Webinar: an introduction to the Integration Star

Better conversations and better outcomes for refugees

An interactive and engaging webinar was held in February 2021. It explored the development of the Integration Star and the co-production involved, including former refugees, and demonstrated how it can be used collaboratively to help refugees integrate into their new country and build a new life there.

Find out more about the Star

The Integration Star. Copyright: Triangle Consulting Social Enterprise Limited

Full resources are available for organisations with a Star Licence and training for all workers and managers using the Star. We are also actively researching into the psychometric properties of the Integration Star and Star data and intend on publishing a factsheet for this Star. Contact us for more information.

Star development collaborator

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Resources

OS Briefing: Choosing which Star

How to use the Star in a trauma informed approach

Integration Star Development Report

How to use the Integration Star with the Indicators of Integration framework