Welcome
CYP Programme South East Region
Launch Event
Sue Baker
Director of Time to Change
Liz Mcavan
Kent Community Health
NHS Trust
‘Time To Change’
Supporting a Heart, Head and Hands
approach to Healthy School Enhancement.
Liz McAvan
Children and Young People Wellbeing Manager
Health and Wellbeing Directorate
Kent Community Health NHS Trust
KCHT Transformation Programme
Core Values
 Caring with Compassion
 Listening Responding and
Empowering
 Leading Through Partnerships
 Learning Sharing and Innovating
 Striving For Excellence
Strategic Vision
“To be the provider of choice by
delivering excellent care and
improving the health of our
communities”
Business Objectives:
To improve outcomes for children
by strengthening integrated partnerships.
Caring with Compassion
Prevention Pays: Our Children Deserve Better,
“My generation unquestioningly
expected our future to be better than
our parents and grandparents. But
our children and grandchildren face a
far more challenging outlook. We
need a renewed focus on children”
“This report questions whether we have
got the balance right in our society and
should act as a wake-up call. The evidence
is crystal clear and the opportunity is huge
investing in children is a certain way of
improving the economic health of our nation,
as well as our children’s well-being.”
(Professor Dame Sally C Davies,
Chief Medical Officer;
Oct 2013)
‘Time to Change’ will help schools
engage with strategic objectives of
Kent’s Healthy School Enhancement;
 Developing healthy behaviours
 Supporting raised achievement.
 Helping to reduce inequalities
 Promoting social inclusion.
Listening Responding and Empowering
Curriculum
Policy
development planning &
work with
outside
Assessing
agencies
recording &
Teaching &
reporting
learning
(HSEM)
Partnership with
Parents/carers &
local communities
WHOLE
SCHOOL
APPROACH
Staff CPD, health
and welfare
needs
Leadership,
management
& managing
change
Provision
School
of pupil
culture &
environment support
services
Giving pupils
a voice
Leading Through Partnerships
‘Mind The Gap’;
KCC Inequalities Plan 2012-2015
Marmot’ life course approach to PH
Outcomes Framework:
 Healthy Weight Yr R, Yr 6
 U 18 Conceptions
 Smoking prevalence 15 years
 Harmful effects of alcohol misuse
 Targeted focus on young people who
have complex or multiple needs
‘Time to Change’ will enhance local
healthy school partnerships promoting
‘No Health Without Mental Health’;
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Schools, young people, parent/carers
Health Providers
Alternative Curriculum Providers
Youth and Community Groups
LA and Borough Council Services
Voluntary Sector Agencies
Business and commercial sector
Local forums and action groups
Learning Sharing and Innovating
‘Time to Change’ complements the
key principles of Kent’s Healthy School
Enhancement model ;
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Data led
Founded on national guidance,
Evidence based practice
Promotes local initiatives
Builds capacity
Increases the knowledge bank
Striving For Excellence
For the CYP Wellbeing Service;
 130+ schools for 14-18 age range
 10% 11-16 yr olds, inc 7% post 16 ‘feel
sad or depressed most days’ (NFER)
For schools;
 Behaviour and Safety
 Attendance
 Achievement
 Spiritual, moral, social and cultural
development of the pupils
 Extent to which the education provided
meets the needs of the range of pupils
 Safeguarding
‘Time to Change’ can be embedded to
Kent Healthy School Enhancement model,
For schools to evidence to Ofsted how
they plans to ‘narrow the gap’.
It’s
Time To Change
Just Do It!
Emma Salt
Time to Change Young Volunteer
Break
Beverley Roberts
Specialist Community Practitioner
NHS Trust
Children and Young Peoples
Mental Health
Why is this important
 1 in 5 children and young people suffer from anxiety
 2-3 in 100 young people (11-18) will have a diagnosis of
depression
 1 in 15 young people carry out self harm
 75% of young offenders have a mental health issue
(ONS 2012)
Why `Time to Change`
 In 2011
We contacted Time to Change – they sent us some leaflets for
our community bus event
 In 2012
They sent us badges , leaflets and a DVD for our community
bus event
 In 2013
They attended our local high school with a `pop up village` to
support our event! – Raising awareness of mental health for
children and young people
Impact on the School
 Schools welcomed multi agency staff into the school to raise
awareness of mental health
 It was an opportunity to let young people know that the school
nurse was available to see them on a regular basis and
offered a confidential `drop in` service
 Young people were made aware of other services available
within the local community – Youth service, Cruse
bereavement support , Targeted youth support , Samaritans.
 Time to Change - resources
THE DIFFERENCE THIS HAS
MADE
 Young people were made aware of local services
 Young people were given information on positive mental
health – how to keep healthy
 Where to go if you need to talk
 Its ok to talk about mental health concerns
 Who / where /when help is available
 Resources available from `Time to Change`
Time to Change resources
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Offering support to young people
Early identification of problems
Tier One interventions
Appropriate referral
School Nurse support
Safeguarding guidelines
Time to Change resources
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The Stand up Kid DVD
Impact on young people
Impact on multi agency professionals
`Train the trainer` training
`POP UP` Village
Impact on the School – now have permanent display
board around mental health
 Assemblies
Strategies for support
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Appropriate referral
Non judgemental approach
Young person understands the limits of confidentiality
Identifying the young persons own support network
Listening
Offering alternative strategies
See the young person not the mental health issue
Looking after yourself
The impact on support for
Young People
“Too often we underestimate the
power of touch, smile, a kind word
a listening ear, or the smallest act
of caring, all of which have the
Potential to turn a life around...”
Leo Buscaglia
Questions & Thanks
Any Questions ?
Thank you!
Rachel Walsh
Wellbeing Worker
Nuneaton Academy
Our Experience
The Challenge
Last October ‘Time to Change’ launched its first ever competition in
schools to get students talking about mental health. Students were
asked to design a campaign that challenges people’s attitudes and
behaviour towards people with mental health problems.
Over 50 schools in the West Midlands area signed up to take part in
the competition.
How Students from the Nuneaton
Academy got involved
Students and Teachers in the Academy took
part with campaigns using;
 Creative writing
 Short film
 Art
 Baking (Including a message on biscuits
about time to change and how to make a
pledge)
 Power points
 Stalls at parents evening
 Posters around the school
 Information on school website
 Article in school news letter
My experience being involved in
the campaign
 Lead Staff member for the Academy promoting the campaign
 Supporting the Wellbeing Student Leader group with their
ideas to promote this
 Created a Form Time Programme for a period of 6 weeks that
explored mental wellbeing and lead up to the competition
 Providing materials and making links resources available to
whole school
 Finding any opportunity to get the message spread throughout
the academy and community
 Creating an online page for students and staff that explore
mental health, 5 a day to improved mental wellbeing and links
to Time to Change Website
How its impacted on my work
 Staff, students and parents becoming increasingly more open
talking about mental health issues
 Students with a mental health illness are talking more openly
about their experiences.
 Staff and students understand the importance of my role
supporting students with their wellbeing.
 Everybody talking a more active role in breaking the taboo
surrounding mental health illness
 This time last year we asked 108 students at random what they
understood in relation to wellbeing only 8 students could provide
some kind of response. This year we are in the process of
collating feedback from the same number of students. Already
from 70 responses I have 47 qualitative responses that discuss
how we take care of our body and mind, as well as attitudes
towards others
Why wanted to explore this
 To generate greater awareness about mental wellbeing and
to allow staff, students and local community to be more
informed of how mental illness does not discriminate
anyone and impacts on all areas of life.
 To help staff, students and the community to be able to talk
openly about mental health in positive manner which would
allow those with an illness to be able to access support they
may need without feeling judged.
 With a high level of students in our school experiencing
mental health illness to help normalise their experiences
Students, staff and
parents talking more
openly about mental
health issues.
Sharing Time to Change
message at a student voice
network meeting
Student and parent
feedback given to
Head Teacher to say
how effectively the
issues of mental
health have been
addressed.
Young carers have
come forward in
relation to supporting
parent/s with a
mental illness
National/Local
news
What we achieved and unexpected
benefits/successes
Positive language associated
with mental health with
students, parents and teachers.
223
pledges
From this we have
developed a strong
student leader well-being
group. New challenges are
being accepted by
students.
A year on and the
assemblies we
delivered had a
lasting impression
with staff and
students.
Hopes and vision for the Time to
Change Campaign
Q &A
Thank you