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SCHOOL BASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Canterbury’s Strategic Response
Harith SwadiCDHB CAF Mental Health Service
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Child & Youth Community Mental Health Service Contacts
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Adopt a leaner more focused model of service delivery Choice and Partnership Approach Same Day Response (CAF Emergency) Care Pathways – Carve-outs
Take a systems approach and focus on collaborative work across the system e.g. NGO, School Counsellors
Promote and develop a focus on mental ‘health’- Investment Positive Parenting School Based Mental Health Service
What we did to adapt
Positive Parenting is the immunity jab against mental illness
Mental health refers to the maintenance of successful mental activity.
This includes maintaining productive daily activitiesand maintaining fulfilling relationships with others.
It also includes maintaining the abilities to adapt to change and to cope with stresses.
While responding to ‘disorders’ we promote health
A Night out in Christchurch
Adopt a leaner more focused model of service delivery
Choice and Partnership Approach
Same Day Response (CAF Emergency)
Care Pathways – Carve-outs
Take a systems approach and focus on collaborative work across the system
NGOs
Primary Care
Promote and develop a focus on mental ‘health’- Investment
Positive Parenting
School Based Mental Health Service
What we did to adapt
Why A School Based Service?
Why not? 15,000 hours Early Intervention Cross Agency Work Enhancing capability Health Promotion and Prevention Convenience Captive Population Representative population Respond to specific needs in specific community Clusters approach Optimal real life environment for assessment and intervention Addresses specific school MH issues
Stand downs/suspension/exclusion Non-attendance – truancy, refusal Contagions – self harm School-based incidents – violence Education specific issues – anxiety, transitions, exam stress Classroom issues – ADHD, disruptive behaviour, ODD, CPS Community based incidents School staff mental wellbeing
Addresses specific school MH issuesExamples:
For the schools to be mental health proficient, self sufficient at a basic level, and be part of young people’s mental health system
Develop and promote public health approach to young people’s mental health in schools.
Help school become a place where young people benefit from every experience, good or adverse’ because every experience counts
Promote mental health resilience in the face of adversity– resistance, bouncebackability – coping
Enhance prevention and early intervention mental health services
Deliver specific targeted tailored services
Deliver primary and some secondary level services
What we intended to achieve
We took a developmental approach
1. Be accepted as part of the school health system2. Establish the foundation for developing a spirit of collaboration –
relationships at governance level3. Build Trusting relationships and networks of support at field level4. Establish Credibility – be there, listen and deliver, 5. Build acceptance of MH in school settings - consistency6. Deliver MH prevention activities and interventions7. Deliver primary level brief assessments and interventions8. Deliver school-setting specific services9. Deliver secondary level assessments and interventions
Small team, started June 2013 – 3FTE Has since expanded to 8.7FTE Work collaboratively with Education, MSD and Others in Schools Work with all level schools Provides a Service – Not roll out a programme Our primary customer is the school Engage every interested school and assign a key liaison clinician Tell us what you need. If we can’t do it, we know someone who can. Our work must be culturally informed and safe
The SBMH team
Governance Communications Handling information Reporting Activity Review Recruit the right people Send invitation letter Set up engagement meeting Focus on high needs
How we started
Pastoral Care meetings
School Counsellors support
Navigating the MH system
Managing incidents
Mental Health workshops e.g. ASD
Parent Mental Health Education
Managing Challenging Behaviour
Anxiety Management
Parent-School engagement facilitation
Supporting kids who self harm workshops
Mindfullness workshops
Suicide postvention support
Helping kids with mood management
Stress management for adults
Where to find help resource book
Health Mind Platter
Cultural MH orientation for teachers
Staff well-being survey
Some menu examples(or make your own Pizza)
Number of schools engaged
By practising mindfulness, we allow ourselves to stop worrying about past problems and future fears, and focus more fully on the here and now.
Child public mental health
Healthy parenting is the key to child mental health
https://www.sparx.org.nz/
An increase in mental health problems especially fear and anxiety Delays in developmental maturity Persistence of difficulties in some groups Children were more likely to be affected than youth The grown ups in their lives were too stressed to maintain support
levels
What we learned (5 things) aboutYoung people in school:
What we learned (5 things) aboutFamilies, parents and caregivers:
Families went through sustained long periods of stress There was a significant rise in mental health problems It was difficult for many families to engage with schools Uncertainty was their biggest stressor They were great at supporting each other
What we learned (5 things) aboutSchools:
They knew exactly what they needed and were very keen on receiving support
Huge variability in preparedness to deal with difficulties An incredible level of professionalism and wanting to get on with it School leadership engagement with SBMH is vital for success Teachers were not just teachers; much more and they suffered too
What we learned (5 things) aboutCommunities:
Desperate to get back to the new normal/routine Different needs in different communities Some communities found it harder to adapt Eastern suburbs and rural communities suffered more Stressed communities found it hard to engage with schools
What we are planning to do
Add the next ingredient of direct mental health support to young people in school setting
3 New FTEs Utilise a Brief Intervention Model Emphasis on Early Intervention Enhance our capability to engage with more schools using a
cluster-of-schools approach
The young people of Canterbury were hit hard by the earthquakes
The indirect impact of the earthquakes will not disappear any time soon
With the extra resource, we can support those who have been affected
Resilience is the name of the game. We need to build the resilience of Canterbury’s young people, their families and their communities
Working with schools and their communities is a viable and effective model towards achieving that
5 Take Home Messages
10 Lessons (aka Headache Saving Tips)
Be prepared for Internal scepticism Be aware of others’ anxiety Be aware of MoE anxiety Engage, engage, engage – key person Know who else is there and what their role is Help schools be focused “What are the needs – name the top one” Be always available (Key contact on our side) Be clear about what your core business Ditch the one-size-fits-all idea Take a Can-do attitude and think of the unthinkable
No Health Without Mental Health
And one more
Mental Health is the product of the collective impact:
GenesEnvironmentExperiences
There is relatively little we can do for kids about genes
There is plenty we can do about their environment and experiences
And that is everyone's responsibility