Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Kent/Medway

Child and Adolescent Mental Health
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT
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MAIDSTONE MULTI-AGENCY INTERFACE PROJECT (MMAIP)

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Background

Streams of the Project

This project is an attempt to develop more clear and formal links between the Specialist CAMHS service at Gatland House, the Maidstone/Weald PCT community practitioners, social services, education and other frontline workers in the Maidstone area. One of the core elements of this interface is the development of frontline workers’ skills, through consultation, supervision and training, in terms of dealing with children and young peoples’ emotional well being and mental health. It is hoped that this will enable these workers to promote mental health and emotional well being and to prevent mental health problems from developing and where there are problems to provide a non-stigmatising setting where it can be dealt with.

The Project has focused on the following areas so far

Service development with the Health Visitors and School Nurses of the Maidstone/Weald PCT and the Family Liaison Officers of Maidstone. To find out more click here.
Regular meetings with the Mental Health Sub-group of the school nurses and health visitors
Facilitation of workshops with the key stakeholders in the area from education, health and social services. To find out more click here.
The development of a multi-agency single point of assessment. To find out more click here.
Exploration of services in Maidstone and the projects link with established multi-agency forums. To find out more click here.

Several documents relating to a variety of issues being encountered in the project have been written.

CAMHS Specialist Units as Learning Organisations (click here for the document)

The Interface Between Front-line Staff and Specialist CAMHS Services (click here for the document)

FOR A COPY OF THE BULLETINS RELATING TO THIS PILOT PROJECT CLICK HERE


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