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INTRODUCTION: An
important component of the project is the role it plays in influencing
practitioners and service providers, managers, commissioners and those
offering training. It is
vital that all people who work with children and young people acknowledge
their responsibility for the mental health and emotional well-being of the
youth they work with. This
function of the project has been executed in a variety of ways:
Key decision makersPractitioners: It
is vital that all people who work with children and young people
acknowledge their responsibility for the mental health and emotional
well-being of the youth they work with.
Thus the project plays a role in meeting with a variety of groups
of people who work with children, young people and their families to look
at their role in developing these groups mental health e.g. disability
teams, children’s social services, health visiting. Service
Managers: Here
the role of influencing is about getting managers to think about how
training and development can be built into the work practitioners are
doing. It is about getting
service manager to see that effective service delivery is dependent on
effective support and training of staff. Commissioners: Here
the role of influencing is about helping commissioners to think about the
type of services they purchase and the importance of support and
development being part of that service.
It is also about helping them to think about the kind of training
and development they purchase e.g. is training, over supervision,
necessarily the best route for frontline workers, commissioning time from
Specialist CAMHS to support frontline workers etc.
Trainers Here it is about getting the various training bodies to look at how they can include child and adolescent mental health within their training programmes. For example getting issues relating to working with adolescents in children’s socials services training and getting more focus on child and adolescent issue in terms of National Vocational Qualifications offered.
Writing
and Disseminating Position Papers
The
following position papers have been written and disseminated to various
groups. To
read them click on the title. Information
Sharing
The
project has attempted to share information about new policy, training on
offer, conferences as well as developments in the project through:
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