BackUp Trust "Enabling people with spinal cord injury to surpass their aspirations"

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Back-Up Trust"Enabling people with spinal cord
injury to surpass their aspirations"

• Mentoring Programme

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Mentoring stems from the Qs

• What happens after a course? For some people
  courses work first time, for others more support
  is needed.
• What happens if youre not interested in courses?
  (Is Back-Up for me?)
• What happens after discharge from hospital?

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What is mentoring according to Back-Up?

• Peer 2 Peer
• All volunteers spinally injured
• Personal experience - Matching according to
  primary issue, gender and level of injury
• Non geographic calls / unit visits

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Selecting volunteers

• SIL Team, Group Leaders and Trainers
• Staff from Spinal Centres (Out patients)
• Advertise interview
• Recommendations from volunteers

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Our Trainers

• Dr Clair Pollard Chartered Clinical Psychologist
  based in Orpington in Kent.
• Specialising in working with adults with severe
  and enduring mental health problems. Particular
  interest in CBT and user-led recovery services.
• Qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2001
  completing doctoral thesis looking at
  psychological coping after spinal cord injury
  supervised by Dr Paul Kennedy.
• Involved with Back-Up since 2000 following a T8
  spinal injury in 1999. Been a group leader and
  now a trustee. Involved in devising and setting
  up the mentoring project and designing the
  mentoring training programme.

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Our Trainers

• Dr Joanna Statham -

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Our Trainers

• Alison Brown -

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Our Trainers

• Michelle Acton - Psychosexual Therapist (PG Dip)
  Relationship Counsellor (Grad Cert)
• 4 Years with Relate Lancashire
• Came out of Southport Spinal Unit In Dec 96,
  called Back up In January 97 and was on a skiing
  Course to Avoriaz before I knew it!
• I was extremely inspired by Jo Clair's work and
  wanted to give Back Up something back as they
  have helped me so much over the years get back on
  my feet so to speak! I feel I have a lot to offer
  with my skills and look forward to adding to the
  work. 

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Training

• The Skilled Helper Model (Egan 2002) Exploration
  / New Understanding / Action
• Mentoring contract
• Confidentiality
• Boundaries / Role plays (listening own
  experience)
• Risk Management Child protection
• Warning signs
• Looking after yourself
• Contemplating change
• Goal-setting / Action planning / Referrals
• Review
• Endings

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Supporting volunteers

• Training weekend
• Regular contact with Coordinator post contact
  with mentee
• Supervision
• Introducing 2 annual reviews
• Introducing e-forum for volunteers

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Matching

• Primary Issue Work, School, Family, Travelling,
  Rehabilitation etc
• Gender
• Injury level
• Personality / Interests
• Non - Geographic

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Selecting mentees

• Identified on courses referrals from GL
  Trainers
• Referrals from medical professionals
  collaborative working
• General enquiries individual requests

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Measuring Impact

• Short questionnaire which looks at mentee
  perceived difficulties and goals with evaluation
  at the end.

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What we are not

• Counsellors
• Therapist
• Mental Health Assessors
• Replacement for statutory services
• For everyone

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What type of people can we support through
mentoring?

• Example 1
• You are a young teenager injured very recently.
  You have just left the spinal unit and are due to
  go back to your old school in the next few weeks.
  Most of your friends have been very supportive
  but you are scared about how people might react
  to you and that you will be teased about your
  disability.
• Example 2
• You are newly injured and have just started to
  think about going back to work. However, you have
  been having lots of difficulties with your
  bladder management. You are finding that this is
  undermining your confidence and making you less
  and less willing to go out into social situations
  for fear of having a bladder accident. You find
  this difficult to talk about.
• Example 3
• You are newly injured and have a young family.
  You are very anxious about how your children will
  cope with your disability and whether you can
  continue to be a good parent.

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Collaborative workingHow can we work together?

• Signposting patients
• Signposting staff
• How do you think we can work together?