TimeBanking and Co-Production Family Support Study Group

Use of timebanking and co-production in building and implementing supports for youth, families, elders and other special populations.

Timebanking an economic approach to building of family, neighborhood and community and resilient, stronger, happier individuals. But the struggles of Time Banks to survive led, almost by accident, to the discovery of Co-Production™. It operates as a special kind of partnering that works on two levels simultaneously: between social service agencies, community, and between the world of money, which pays for professional services, and the non-monetary “economy” where members produce, distribute and consume goods and services not for money, but as an expression of their basic, universal capacities and needs.