TRAINING

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Solutions Towards Everyday Problems
Debbie Mclean Senior Practitioner Family
Support Workers Team Pali Obhi YISP
Coordinator
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Solutions Towards Everyday Problems What is it?
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How does it work? The Aims

• To provide locally based support to children,
  families tier 1 staff to encourage emotional
  well being positive behaviour
• To provide timely, early direct involvement to
  achieve positive outcomes.
• To provide training, consultation support to
  professionals in statutory and voluntary
  agencies.
• To promote multi-agency collaborative working.

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The network of agencies is coordinated by

• The strategic group
• The operational group

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The Family STEPs Network
Family Support Workers
Primary Mental Health Workers
Specialist Teachers and Educational Psychologists
Transition Mentors (in specific areas)
Fun Families
YISP
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Family Support Workers

• Aim to offer brief focused intervention build
  on existing strengths in the family
• Work with parents/carers within the home setting
  on home-based behavioural issues (below the age
  of 13)

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Primary Mental Health Workers

• Aim to offer early identification/intervention
  relating to mental health issues, improve access
  to specialist CAMHS support tier 1 provision
• Provide consultation, support, direct work,
  training networking

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Fun and Families

• Aims to support families experiencing
  child/adolescent behaviour problems.
• Organise courses for parents and young people and
  train tier 1 practitioners to run the courses
• Courses include Fun Families, Living with
  Teenagers, Avoiding Conflict with Adults

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Transition Mentors

• Aim to raise educational achievement, self-esteem
  resilience to reduce exclusions likelihood
  becoming involved in crime
• Provide a year long programme of activities with
  identified vulnerable young people who are moving
  from KS2 to KS3 and their families.
• Provide support in school, home community

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Teachers Educational Psychologists

• When there are concerns about a childs
  behaviour emotional well being in educational
  settings, we aim to
• improve children's emotional well-being
• encourage positive behaviour in children
• build parental confidence and skills
• support Tier 1 staff in their work with children
• provide consultation and training for STEPs
  practitioners about educational issues
• enable a comprehensive home-school approach to
  be taken

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YISP Preventative Workers

• Aim to prevent children becoming involved in
  offending/anti-social behaviour, to prevent
  re-offending, to increase protective factors
  reduce risk factors
• Work with children young people from 8-16 years
  of age, who are at risk of offending/anti-social
  behaviour

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Interagency working is not rocket science, its
more difficult. (Kukic, 1997 in Cole et al,
1998)
so what makes it work?
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Sharing a common goal
Team work
Communication

• Organisation

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Referral Process Criteria

• If you have a family who may need support from
  one or more of the teams within the Family STEPs
  network they/you should consult the referral
  criteria or contact any of the managers
• Complete a request for direct work form with the
  family
• Referrals received by operational group who
  undergo a screening process

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Any questions?