Mental Health in Corby

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Mental Health in Corby

• Sue Cordwell
• Education Consultant

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Corby Chronology

• Education Action Zone
• ?
• Excellence Cluster
• ?
• Learning Partnership/Corby Children and Young
  Peoples Board

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Excellence Cluster

• Learning Mentors
• Learning Support Units
• Behaviour Improvement Programme
• Voice Project

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Learning Mentors

• Para-professionals
• Skill base
• Safeguarding
• Appropriate space

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Learning Support Units

• Reduce exclusions
• Provide alternative learning pathways
• Discover the blockages to learning

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Behaviour Improvement Programme

• Understanding behaviour V behaviour
  management
• Childrens Fund
• Counsellors
• Peer Mentors PB Buddies
• Play therapists
• Theraplay
• Initiatives
• Forest School Allotments

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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?

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Mental Health Conferences

• 2005What prevents us working together?
• 2006 What do we need to understand?
• 2007 Building the teams

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2005 What prevents us working well together?

• Names to faces
• What can we/cant we do?
• What are your referral/response routes?
• What are your confidentiality protocols?
• At Risk Criteria

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2006 What do we need to understand?

• Richard Bowlby Attachment Theory
• So what can we do?
• Nurture Groups

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Area Context

• Joint Area Review
• Local Area Agreement

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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
Educational Psychologist Steve Womersly Maranne
Wass Philip Whitaker
EWO Margaret Smith
MH Teacher Liz Saunders Lyn Brewin
UNIVERSAL TEAM
Neighbourhood Caretaker Robert Althorpe
CDAT Team Alison Simpkin
CAN Kat Kettle
Foundation Stage Advisor Karen Pirie
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
SOLVE IT Barbara Skinner
Tresham Mark Silverman
PTLP Helen Bradshaw
Schools Lodge Park Technology College Woodnewton
Primary Pen Green Studfall Infant Studfall
Junior Our Ladys Primary Rockingham
Primary Rowlett Primary
Pre School Teacher Tracey Bond
Housing Officers Helen Lines Teresa Cole Jan
Swann Claire Farrag Marie Gourlay
Womens 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
Childrens Centres Pen Green Woodnewton
Connexions Will Coles
Positive Programmes Julian Elkington
Study Support Danielle Stone
School Nurse Hazel Stone Claire Atkinson
LAC Jane Hadley Kathy Percy
Sunflower Centre Janet Frost
Health Visitor Jo Ghani
Nursery Nurse Judith Trevaskis
GP
Supplementary Schools Morcea Walker
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
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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?

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NORTH
CORBY MENTAL HEALTH TEAM
SCHOOL EMOTIONAL WELLBEING TEAM
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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