Feeling Good Feeling Safe Wendy Guest Protective Behaviours Trainer and Coordinator Safety Net Working Together to Keep Children Safe
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• Protective Behaviours training delivered as part of the Transformation Programme to 175 health visitors, early years visitors and children’s social work staff • 1:1 resources developed for social work teams • Feeling Good, Feeling Safe group work programme for parents rolled out to Children’s Centres across the city • General PB training Programme available to all CYP and families workforce Working Together to Keep Children Safe
Feeling Good Feeling Safe Programme Outcomes Designed to enhance and support skills in: • Development of healthy family relationships, •
Improved emotional literacy, and self esteem
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Improved safety awareness & ability to keep safe
• Development of supportive networks,
• Increased ability in assertiveness and problem solving Working Together to Keep Children Safe
Feelings are feelings Help us understand our feelings
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Feeling Safe
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Feeling Unsafe
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We all have the right to feel safe
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Networks, who can we talk to?
Choosing Safely /Problem solving
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Feeling Good Feeling Safe Evaluation 2012-2013 49 parents took part in FGFS groups over the period of 1 year
• 73% of participants showed an improvement in feeling that they had skills to keep themselves and their children safe • 67% showed a significant improvement in their ability to cope with difficult situations and emotions and talk about feelings • 59% found it easier to recognise when they felt unsafe and showed improvements in relationships within their family Dr Nina Lockwood Lecturer in Psychology at Brighton University Working Together to Keep Children Safe
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Early Parenting Assessment Programme
The Early Parenting Assessment Programme (EPAP) Our programme is designed to provide in depth parenting assessments for vulnerable parents in order to help early decision making about where it is best for the child to live.
Who is in the team? 3 Lead Practitioners, (Health Visitors) 3 Parenting Assessment Workers The team is managed by 2 part time practice Managers We also maintain close links with other professionals for case discussion when required.
Our Aims • to improve outcomes for infants, who are born to vulnerable parents, and are at high risk of becoming Looked After Children, (LAC). • to reduce the number of parent and baby placements, through early, intensive evidence based assessments. • to be cost effective.
Why do it? • Brighton & Hove have a higher than average number of children in the care system with a higher than average percentage of those children being under 1 yr old.
• For babies who need to separated from their parents, there can be a long wait whilst decisions are made. • Early decisions about permanence can facilitate the development of healthy attachments.
What we do • We make detailed assessments of parents through a programme of intensive interventions.
• We help developing parental empathy and “mind mindedness”, (Meins et al 2001; 2001), promoting secure attachment. • We provide parenting education and support to help parents understand and care for their babies. (e.g. baby cues, video, protective behaviours, massage) • We help parents develop reflective skills, about their thinking, behaviours and actions.
Why are people referred?
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Outcomes
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The Day Programme
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How do we use Protective Behaviours at EPAP?
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In Group work
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At Home
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We all Have the Right to Feel Safe all of the time
Emotional Literacy I smile at you & you smile back I want you to play with me but you’re too busy
People call me names and I don’t like it You pick me up when I’m crying I’m sitting on your lap trying to get your attention But you’re on your phone
What makes me, me?
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Hopes for my baby
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Helping Hand
What the parents thought about Protective Behaviours at the beginning
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Small changes
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“I now hold back and think before going into a situation like a bull in a china shop�
“I’ve realised I can’t have this attitude now I’m a mum ‘cos it doesn’t get me anywhere”
Contact Details • Practice Managers – Cas Short cas.short@nhs.net and Gillian Luckock gillian.luckock@nhs.net • Marg Elson margaret.elson@nhs.net • Louise Jackson louise.jackson6@nhs.net • Bernie Sweatman bernie.sweatman@nhs.net • Karen Penman karen.penman@nhs.net • Rachel Flattery rachel.flattery@nhs.net • Julie Lilley julie.lilley@nhs.net Early Parenting Assessment Programme The Lodge Brighton General Hospital tel 696011 x3026