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Flying Under the Radar:

Flying Under the Radar:. a look at Travellers, New Zealand’s innovative, youth friendly, resilience programme. Adolescence is a challenging time involving change, loss and transition Opportunities for growth Without support and skills young people can feel distressed

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Flying Under the Radar:

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  1. Flying Under the Radar: a look at Travellers, New Zealand’s innovative, youth friendly, resilience programme

  2. Adolescence is a challenging time involving change, loss and transition • Opportunities for growth • Without support and skills young people can feel distressed • Possible increase in incidence of mental health concerns

  3. The WHO Four Level Whole School Approach to School Change Entire school community Create an environment conducive to promoting psychosocial competence and wellbeing Whole school environment All students & teachers Mental health education: Knowledge, attitudes & behaviour Part of general curriculum 20%-30% of students Psychosocial interventions & problems Students needing additional help at school 3%-12% of students Professional treatment Students needing additional mental health intervention Focusof Travellers

  4. A school-based targeted small-group programme for young people who identify themselves as facing tough timesin their first year of secondary school

  5. Development • No existing programmes • Transition to secondary school can be traumatic for some young people • Young people often under the radar in schools • Can be dealing with significant issues (walking wounded)

  6. Development • Designed for students who self identify that extra support would help • Designed to be “school owned” • Provides a structured programme to build student resilience and well being • Trialled for 4 years in a range of schools • Now available NZ wide

  7. How it works • 2. Data • Provided on all Year 9 students taking survey • Assists Counsellors to select students they think will benefit from Travellers • Allows schools to select students for other programmes the school may run 1. Online questionnaire Short online real-time web-based questionnaire School’s total Year 9 student cohort ~30,000 NZ students have taken questionnaire 3. Travellers programme 6% of students = 1800 students 8 Week programme 90 minute sessions 2 facilitators

  8. Data Global / Individual • Feel good – Yes / No • Distress score – Weinberger Short Scale • Number of events rated as major • Number of schools

  9. Global Data

  10. Ranking Student’s name Student’s name

  11. Selection • Students interviewed and their permission sought • Programme runs for 8 weeks during school time • 8 – 10 students per group • 90 mins per session • Facilitated by 2 trained school staff • Approach:

  12. Session Outline

  13. Session Outline

  14. The Programme

  15. Impact of the Travellers Programme

  16. “Travellers helped me deal with feelings and understand what they meant. It’s OK to feel and everybody does.”

  17. "You feel special and involved, with a sense of wanting, like you're wanted somewhere.I am normally left out of things.I feel happy to be involved in something.It makes me feel good.They let me be myself and don’t tell me off for it."

  18. "It helped me open up andface my problems, which is good for me. You gaveme hope and I want to thank you from thebottom of my heart."

  19. Facilitator comment “A very overweight year 9 student chose to join the Travellers group 5 years ago. During the programme she chose to go to the counsellor for personal counselling. She told the counsellor that the group experience after 4 sessions gave her the courage to talk to the counsellor about sexual abuse that had happened for many years. The counsellor supported the student for 3 years with life issues and assisted in the abuse stopping.” McAuley High School “I find it very useful as a counsellor and facilitator in that if I have ex-Travellers kids as clients, it is very easy to do CBT with them as there are so many CBT related activities there.” Papatoetoe High School

  20. Overall Impact • Increases mental health / emotional literacy of students who participate in the programme • Allows group counselling – hopefully reducing the workload of busy counsellors • Schools are approaching Skylight to pick up the programme • Schools report greater student connectedness and access to school health / guidance networks

  21. Current Situation in NZ • Running in 95 schools throughout NZ • Schools see Travellers as: • Providing valuable data on school culture • Assisting young people to be more resilient • Assisting young people to have greater emotional literacy • Assisting young peoples’ mental well being

  22. Transportability • Programme crosses socio – economic boundaries and cultures • Programme able to be adapted for other cultures / countries • Adapted for use in Denmark / Australia

  23. Contact Bice Awan Skylight Chief Executive Ph: +644 939-6759 ce@skylight-trust.org.nz Aileen Davidson Skylight National Travellers Coordinator Ph: +644 939-8576 travellers@skylight-trust.org.nz www.skylight.org.nz www.travellers.org.nz

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