Progress Review and Planning Workshop

HeadStart Support and Development Consortium

15 December 2014

Today

Introductions

Our approach and support offer

Opportunity to reflect and ‘benchmark’ support and development

needs

Consider BIGs aspirations

Actions to take - for us and you

Inform our support timetable for 2015 across all areas and with you.

Who we areA consortium led by YoungMinds and includes Achievement for All and BoingBoing at the University of Brighton.

•YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people.

•Boingboing is a social enterprise working with the University of Brighton and has more than 10 years’ experience in resilience research and practice.

•Achievement for All works with schools, early years settings, further education colleges and local authorities to ensure that the 20% of children and young people vulnerable to under-achievement thrive emotionally and socially, and succeed academically.  

Lisa Williams specialises in commissioning support and whole system improvement for children and young peoples’ emotional and mental health systems, from earlier intervention through to specialist care. Currently Lisa works with YoungMinds both as a commissioning support consultant and as Project Technical Lead providing support to 12 local areas participating in the Big Lottery’s HeadStart resilience focused programme.

Mary Hinton is an experienced professional with a strong background in education, restorative justice and multi-agency working. She has extensive training, management and leadership experience across a range of public sector environments. She has worked in primary, secondary and special school settings as a teacher and manager. Recently a collaborative project in partnership with University of Brighton and Boingboing resulted in the production of a resilience resource for foster carers and children in care.

September October December February April May July September November December

2015National Quarterly

Event

National Conference

January 2015

National Quarterly

Event

Information gathering & diagnostic

activity

Draft local area offer of support

Agree local area offer of

support

Local area diagnostic review meeting/

workshop

Quarterly Review Meeting

Quarterly Review

Meeting & Stress Test

Delivery of: Local Area Offer of Support -Leadership Development -Beneficiary Engagement

Our Approach - HeadStart Support Programme

National Quarterly

Event

Quarterly Review Meeting

Quarterly Review Meeting

Menu of supportBlend of facilitated activity, information and guidance, and development opportunities both for individuals and partnerships

Quarterly review workshops with your partnership HeadStart AdvisorNational events Three workshops for your local area partnership Webinars and short Ted style films with leading experts and theorists in their fieldsPractical tools and guidance 2 free places to attend training from YoungMinds, boingboing and Achievement for All conferences

WORKSHOP

FOCUSING ON AREAS FOR SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT

Discuss

What is our approach to building resilience? (the concept behind the programme)

Reminder of HS aspiration from BIG

We want to equip young people to cope better with difficult circumstances in their lives, so as to prevent them experiencing common mental health problems before they become serious issues.

We call this emotional resilience; the opportunity for and capacity of young people - in the context of adversity - to negotiate for and navigate their own way to resources that sustain their mental health.

Emotional resilience

What would it look like….Young people negotiating for and navigating their own way to resources (and not just services)Particular young people i.e. in a particular context/s of adversity (with particular risk profiles)Provided with the opportunity to do this (across the system and virtually)With capacity to do so (capacity being both intrinsic and built externally to support this)

Discuss

How ecological is our approach?

How much of a system wide impact will we

have?

How sustainable do we think our impact

will be?

Next steps Based on today; discuss and agree timetable of bespoke support

e.g. workshops, HA input

National event - 26th & 27th Jan 2015

BIG, Evaluation and S&D consortium

Focus on learning from review workshops; evaluation and likely learning from P2; hearing about and informing P3 programme;

Leadership programme nominees & plan

HeadStarters - on going recruitment

Webinars/Ted style films commission

Evaluation