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Mental Health Work

STAR

Investing in Children are a delivery partner of the STAR project (Support Targeted for Anxiety and Resilience) which follows on from the successful delivery of The Anxious About School Project, Durham Resilience Programme, Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) and Nurturing Our Wellbeing (NOW). However, it aims to bring them all together under one roof and offer schools access to the support through a structured and supportive process led by an Advisory Inclusion Teacher. STAR focuses on early intervention and prevention of mental health difficulties. As part of this offer Investing in Children will support schools to: 

  • Embed pupil voice within their wellbeing offer through a series of focus groups
  • Deliver awareness raising assemblies and workshops
  • Delivering the ASDAN accredited Peer Mentoring Programme
  • Deliver the CPD certified Train the Trainer Staff Development Programme

These forums are a perfect opportunity for mental health leads from education settings, and professionals from the wider mental health support system, to come together to share knowledge, best practice and raise awareness of what support there is available locally.

Following the roll out of the Anna Freud School Link Programme in County Durham in 2017 Investing in Children were commissioned by Public Health to develop and deliver termly meetings that enable education settings and wider services the opportunity to develop:

  • Shared understandings across our workforce of mental health and how it affects our young people
  • Raise awareness of good practice in key areas
  • Increased knowledge of what support is available locally, and how to access it
  • Develop closer working relationships across education settings and services that support improved practices
  • Identify patterns of need that can inform commissioning

Investing in Children have a long standing agreement working to support the CAMHS Participation Groups across County Durham. CAMHS is the Child Adolescent Mental Health Service which within Durham is managed by TEWV NHS Foundation Trust and offers community based mental health support to children and young people up to the age of 18. 

Investing in Children regularly link in with CAMHS Participation leads and attend the young people’s meetings to ensure children and young people that access CAMHS are meaningfully involved in ongoing dialogue and change. The participation groups meet on a monthly basis in the North, South and East of the County.