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HeadStart Kent Stakeholder Engagement @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

HeadStart – A Young Person’s View

Kent’s Goals for Phase 2  Working with partners, we are testing new approaches and evidence based programmes that builds the resilience of young people and families, supporting vulnerable groups to better cope with life’s challenges.  This includes: school, home, with parents/carers, community opportunities and relationships with community figures, the online environment and social media and peer support and relationships.  HeadStart is embedding itself with the Kent’s Children and Young People’s emotional wellbeing strategy.  Young people have been involved in every aspect of developing and delivering HeadStart Kent, and will continue to do so.  Identify the main problems their peer group face day-to-day and work with services to find solutions  Test solutions across three pilot projects in Kent  Present findings to Kent about the best ways to help 10-14 year olds be more resilient.

Kent’s Programme Phase 2 Partnership Programme Board, Shadow Board, Knowledge Seminars academic resilience Coproduction throughout with Young people and Families young evaluators Canterbury North West Kent Thanet Penn State Resilience curriculum Safe Spaces in schools Restorative approaches in schools in secondary schools Safe Spaces in community hubs Restorative approaches in the Penn State Resilience curriculum community Coping packs in primary schools. Target Restorative approaches in Family Focus KS2 Penn State Resilience in schools Peer mentors community and target workers Restorative Ambassadors (setbacks Sorted) Active listening mentors Resilience Curriculum FRIENDS Training open access and Youth MH First Aid outdoor education CBT training for school staff Restorative approaches families through systemic work Developing mentoring toolkits Resilience Mentors: evidence based model of intensive support. FRIENDS Social Marketing: skills roadshows, coping packs, reflection days, Our Promise Digital World: full services directory , volunteering & mentoring opportunities, self -referral form and sign posting to social media

What we have learned so far across Kent  Three mechanisms for operationalising HeadStart in Kent involved following contexts 1. local coordinator to monitor interventions 2. no local coordinator with oversight from HS operational team 3. local coordinator with devolved budget and decision making  Learning / developmental phase meant that a degree of flexibility was allowed in implementations  A great deal of good will helped with the programme!  Acceptability of interventions better when YP/families are actively involved  Local context plays a big role in acceptability/success of interventions targeting community practitioners @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

Key lessons from our learning to take forward for Phase 3 Programme An outcome evaluation necessitates a different approach:  Clear Theory of Intervention / Theory of Change for evaluation of intervention fidelity and outcomes  The programme needs to be measurable and manageable  Marketing of HS interventions with visible local link / coordinator increases success of implementation Greater acceptability / durability of Phase 3 programme:  Involvement of YP important and will continue  Acknowledgment of ‘goodwill’ - the efforts of practitioners /teachers etc. in helping to market/deliver interventions  Being prepared for local contexts affecting implementation plans @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

Ideas of What to take Forward  Mentoring, both peers and through adults.  Family work which is facilitated (mentalisation and CBT tested so far)  Continue coproduction and Young evalutors to be enhanced  Safe spaces  Youth health mental first Aid  Cognitive Behavioural Approaches  Social marketing approaches to be enhanced.

THE HEADSTART MISSION The Big Lottery Funded HeadStart programme aims to improve the mental well-being of at-risk* 10 to 16 year-olds by investing up to £75m in up to 12 local partnerships to facilitate and support: 1.the implementation of a locally developed, cross-disciplinary, multi-layered and integrated prevention strategy, with the young person and their needs at its core 2.the development of the necessary local conditions to enable that strategy to become sustainable in time 3.the development of a more robust evidence-base around ‘ what works ’ in the area of mental well-being to be pro-actively shared beyond HeadStart with the aim of contributing to the national and local policy debate. @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

THE SPECIFIC ROLE OF RESILIENCE WELL-BEING Resilience Particularly relevant in the context of HeadStart given that many children in our target population might face more adversity than the norm @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

Draft Mission for Phase 3 “By 2020 Kent’s young people and their families will have improved resilience, by developing the knowledge and lifelong skills to maximise their own and their peers’ emotional health and wellbeing; so to navigate their way to support when needed in ways which work for them.” @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

Draft Goals for Phase 3 Goals  Improved emotional wellbeing and resilience population through activities which promotes cultural change  Improved attendance and school academic achievement to ensure young people in Kent are equipped to maximise their potential  Improve the emotional wellbeing and resilience of targeted young people for those who have/are experiencing domestic abuse, parental substance misuse and parental mental ill-health . @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

Academic Resilience Toxic Trio Health Needs Assessment Evidence on self harm Domestic Abuse JSNA Chapter Adverse Childhood Experiences Referrals to Tier 2 mental health services Knowledge Seminars Referrals to early help and prevention Young people who are being exposed to domestic abuse

Identifying populations & areas To be both manageable and measureable –  Domestic abuse Notifications  Secondary schools  Feeder Primary schools  nearest PRU, girls grammar, special schools  Areas/neighbourhoods

Young People’s Focus HeadStart’s mission is to prevent the mental ill-health for 10-16 year olds Problem 1 – thinking approach, not everyone understands emotional wellbeing or resilience. We should support young people through staff training and whole school wellbeing. Families, youth workers and community people also trained which should include listening and YMHFA. Where: Everywhere Young people should be involved in the design and delivery of training Problem 2- pressure to “achieve” feels like being judged. Developing coping skills and having small failures which enable recovery, with small successes that are the building blocks. Problem 3 – some young people have no-one when things happen Find the young people sooner and everyone has someone, those need longer time get it. @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

Academic Resilience Approach (working title)  “Linking r esilience to achievement , and how as a school we can be holistic in our approach with the young people” in a systematic way Ashford Oaks  Young Minds approach has been developed by schools, specifically for them to use and aims to support the development of in school activities which pupils who experience multiple disadvantages face greater challenges can benefit from.  Kent will build upon the approach of Young Minds making it relevant to Kent, It will enable schools; with the senior leadership team, teachers, parents, students and communities to develop plans to continuously improve.  The aim is that schools will explore what assets are and identify the areas they would like to develop so that that everyone owns the climate where young people can thrive, which is context specific.  Outcomes  Schools have a systematic way of identifying vulnerable young people, and using the resilience domains to support them.  Enable schools to plan is own activities and purchase services around identified need.  It will be based on a quality development framework which is peer assessed leading to a Kent Quality Mark  It can be used to evidence the impact and added value of taking an academic resilient approach  Its goes beyond educational outcomes but contributes to them.

The Approach @HeadStartKent #headstartmatters #bounceback

Risk and Ecological Approach Environment Family Child