Young People’s Health

Young People’s Health

• Young People’s Health

• Policy
• Strategy
• Specific needs of YP acknowledged
• Psychosocial and physical
• Prevention, resilience
• Services
• never been a better time

Young People’s Health

• Young People’s Health

• The only thing that really makes a difference to
• large numbers of young people is local
• implementation - multi-agency and integrated.
• never been a more challenging time

Northumberland

• Northumberland

• Background
• Teenage health demonstration site
• What we’ve learned

• Challenges

• Current context

• Next steps

Valued

• Valued

• Respected

• Resilient

• Emotionally intelligent

• Skilled and confident in

• finding solutions
• relationships
• conflict resolution

• Enthusiastic and excited about challenge and change

CYP Strategic Partnership

• CYP Strategic Partnership

• Northumberland Young People’s Health Project – relationship with schools

• Community Health Trust

• Care Trust

• Family and Children’s Trust 2006

Integrated teams

• Integrated teams

• school nurses, HVs, EWO, SW etc

• Large, varied county

• Strong locality identity

• Urban south east, Blyth, Ashington
• West, rural Hexham, Haydon Bridge
• North, rural Berwick, Alnwick

People

• People

• specialist “adolescent” nurse practitioner
• GP
• Consultant Paediatrician
• many others

• Time

• Focus

• Co-ordination

Clinical

• Clinical

• nurse outreach into residential and secure unit
• health drop-in at FE college
• community paediatric 12-19 years YP clinics

• Participation

• Rural

• Peer support (healthy schools)

• Emotional wellbeing and mental health

• Substance misuse services

• “Empowering young people umbrella group”

• public health, youth work, paediatrics, LA
• began 1997

• FACT monthly leadership group

• FACT weekly leadership and management team

Meaning? Meaning? Meaning?

• Meaning? Meaning? Meaning?

• Health / LA / schools / youth work / VCS

• Which young people?

• Which issues?

• Which arena?

• Style

• Control and honesty

Vision

• Vision

• Strategy

• Attitudes, attitudes, attitudes

• Implementation

Participation Strategy Group

• Participation Strategy Group

• Participation Operational Group

• Children and young people

• Parents

• Communities

Annual reporting to FACT Board

• Annual reporting to FACT Board

• representation of VCS,
• Northumberland Strategic Partnership,
• child health commissioner

• Six monthly troubleshooting to FACT leadership team

Shared vision

• Shared vision

• Relationships

• Trust

• Local integrated teams

• Management

• Leadership

We can make things better together

• We can make things better together

• Young people deserve

• respect
• confidentiality
• choice
• to participate and influence
• support wherever they choose to access it
• “no wrong door” vs. referral

Organisational change

• Organisational change

• Unitary authority April 09
• Public health – becoming North of Tyne
• World class commissioning

• Economic climate

• anxiety
• attention to service provision rather than prevention
• narrower focus rather than partnerships

Politically disenfranchised

• Politically disenfranchised

• “Vulnerable” / “at risk of poor outcomes”

• Support vs. punishment

• Participation

• all young people
• honesty
• timescale

Going for BIG change raises BIG issues

• Going for BIG change raises BIG issues

• Inequality

• Poverty

• Power

• Control

Every Young Person Matters

• Every Young Person Matters

• Aiming High for Young People

• Children’s Trusts

• Duty of schools / PCTs to co-operate

• Children’s workforce development

Integrated services for young people and targeted youth support

• Integrated services for young people and targeted youth support

• Healthy lives, brighter futures: Strategy for children and young people’s health

• World class commissioning

• 14 – 19 strategy, LSC funding to LAs

• Local community involvement

Children’s Trusts

• Children’s Trusts

• creating and keeping a focus on young people

• Young people’s participation

• National indicator set

• Tell us survey

Commissioning

• Commissioning

• understanding of multi agency YP’s services
• prevention, resilience
• emotional wellbeing

• Excellent services for young people as assessed by young people

• You’re Welcome quality criteria

Children’s Trusts

• Children’s Trusts

• focus on young people

• Young people’s participation

• Achieving excellent services

• Commissioning

• Outcome measures

We have the vision

• We have the vision

• We have the strategies

• Local implementation

• relationships
• trust
• doing it together
• persistence

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