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Mental Health in Corby. Sue Cordwell Education Consultant. Corby Chronology. Education Action Zone ↓ Excellence Cluster ↓ Learning Partnership/Corby Children and Young People’s Board. Learning Mentors Learning Support Units Behaviour Improvement Programme Voice Project.
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Mental Health in Corby Sue Cordwell Education Consultant
Corby Chronology Education Action Zone ↓ Excellence Cluster ↓ Learning Partnership/Corby Children and Young People’s Board
Learning Mentors Learning Support Units Behaviour Improvement Programme Voice Project Excellence Cluster
Learning Mentors • Para-professionals • Skill base • Safeguarding • Appropriate space
Learning Support Units • Reduce exclusions • Provide alternative learning pathways • Discover the blockages to learning
Behaviour Improvement Programme Understanding behaviour V behaviour management Children’s Fund: • Counsellors • Peer Mentors – PB Buddies • Play therapists • Theraplay Initiatives: • Forest School + Allotments
Issues • Knowledge re roles, responsibilities, capacities of services and agencies • What is good practice? • What is out there? • Who is out there? • Knowledge re mental health • What are safe / appropriate responses?
Mental Health Conferences • 2005:What prevents us working together? • 2006: What do we need to understand? • 2007: Building the teams
2005 – What prevents us working well together? • Names to faces • What can we/can’t we do? • What are your referral/response routes? • What are your confidentiality protocols? • At Risk Criteria
2006: What do we need to understand? • Richard Bowlby – Attachment Theory • So what can we do? • Nurture Groups
Area Context • Joint Area Review • Local Area Agreement
NORTH BACIN Judy Floyd Lyn Stephenson Primary Mental Health Worker Ilona Law CAFS Ilona Law Dr Fernandez Community Pediatrician Jean Marc Michel Area SEN Denise Lowther YOT CAMHS Area Youth Team Tony Downes EWO Margaret Smith Educational Psychologist Steve Womersly Maranne Wass Philip Whitaker MH Teacher Liz Saunders Lyn Brewin UNIVERSAL TEAM Neighbourhood Caretaker Robert Althorpe CDAT Team Alison Simpkin Foundation Stage Advisor Karen Pirie CAN Kat Kettle Birth to Three Advisor Lisa Bigley Neighbourhood Warden Matthew Buckingham Allan Tracy CALS Joe Apea SIP Gill Broughton Stephanie Beckett Community Police Sgt Abe Smith Tresham Mark Silverman SOLVE IT Barbara Skinner PTLP Helen Bradshaw Schools Lodge Park Technology College Woodnewton Primary Pen Green Studfall Infant Studfall Junior Our Lady’s Primary Rockingham Primary Rowlett Primary Housing Officers Helen Lines Teresa Cole Jan Swann Claire Farrag Marie Gourlay Pre School Teacher Tracey Bond Women’s Centre Area Co-ordinator / Early Years & Child care Deborah Wallis Adult Mental Health CAF Panel Ilona Law, Maranne Wass, Abigail Marsden, Glyn Rushton, Jan Geary, Carole Carson Pre School Teacher(SEN) / Area SENCO Tracey Bond Children’s Centres Pen Green Woodnewton Connexions Will Coles Study Support Danielle Stone Positive Programmes Julian Elkington School Nurse Hazel Stone Claire Atkinson LAC Jane Hadley Kathy Percy Sunflower Centre Janet Frost Health Visitor Jo Ghani Nursery Nurse Judith Trevaskis Supplementary Schools Morcea Walker GP Strategic Manager of Schools Duncan Mills Choosing Health Team Lesley Hamilton Family Resource Centre Katrina Monkhouse Neighbourhood Manager Fred Scholey Speech and Language Therapy Rachel Akers – Head of Community Pediatrics Sue Lewin Maggie Simpson, Jenny Vaughan Stephanie Vivian, Gwen Gamble Sally Eaton, Joan Hicks Social Services Abigail Marsden CABS Beatrice Standen
2007: Building the Teams • Who forms part of the Corby Mental Health Team? • Who forms part of the school mental health team? • How do they ’talk to one another’?
NORTH CORBY MENTAL HEALTH TEAM SCHOOL EMOTIONAL WELLBEING TEAM
Where are we Now? • Every school in Corby has or is forming a mental health team • Mental Health Conference is an annual event • Area Conference is an annual event • Shared CPD for all people in Corby who work with children • Corby CYP Board created