NSF Development Initiative Programme (23 Jan 2008)

This collection contains the background resources, conference handbook and presentations for the regional NCSS event on the NSF Development Initiative Programme (23 Jan 2008).

• Key messages from the NSF Development Initiatives Programme

• Right time, right place: learning from the Children's National Service Framework Development Initiatives for psychological well-being and mental health, 2005-2007

  This report outlines the progress of 19 projects, which set out to develop innovative practice. This was a joint initiative from the DH and the then DfES. The projects were funded through the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Grant in 2005, which targeted innovations seeking to address the priorities covered in the CAMHS Standard of the Children’s National Service Framework. It showcases the projects and their evaluations and develops thematic links - drawing out the learning from each project and from those projects working in similar areas.

• Overview of early intervention projects

  A presentation by Debbie Shotter (Senior Educational Psychologist), Plymouth Psychology Service.

• Children's NSF Development Initiatives: hard to reach groups access and BME groups

  Presentation giving an overview on National Service Framework (NSF) development projects for hard to reach and black and minority ethnic (BME) groups. By Jay Stewart, Service Manager,Turning Point.

• Complex disorders

  Presentation giving an overview of complex disorders by Dr Lesley French

• Children's National Service Framework Development Initiatives: introduction to learning disabilities projects

  An overview of learning disabilities projects by Stacey Parker.

• NSF Implementation Project Sheffield: early identification and intervention for behaviour problems

  A workshop presentation on the National Service Framework (NSF) implementation project in Sheffield.

• West of Berkshire CAMHS parenting team NSF project

  A workshop presentation by West of Berkshire child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) on their National Service Framework (NSF) implemetation project.

• The KEW-5 framework

  A workshop presentation of a project providing mental health promotion and early intervention services for babies, young children and their families.

• Evaluation of Department of Health Innovations Project "Cottoning on to CAMHS"

  A workshop presentation by Pennine Care NHS Trust.

• National Service Framework developments initiative grant for Camden

  A workshop presentation on services to Black and minority ethnic groups in Camden.

• Adolescent outreach project

  A workshop presentation by Bexley CAMHS, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

• WEMASS (Wellbeing for Ethnic Minorities Aged Sixteen Seventeen)

  A workshop presentation by Turning Point Leicestershire

• Wellbeing project Hillingdon: mental health service for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people

  A workshop presentation by Hillingdon Social Services and CAMHS.

• ACCESS: the 'ethnic minority/asylum seeker' and 'out of hours fostering' specialist workers in Surrey services

  A joint workshop presentation by Lifespan Research Group and Surrey Placement Stability Services.

• Intensive community intervention: how to avoid exporting children

  A workshop presentation of Greenwich and Islington initiatives.

• The BFST (Children with Disabilities Behaviour and Family Support Team)

  A workshop presentation on the Children with Disabilities Behaviour and Family Support Team (BSFT) developed by Kensington and Chelsea CAMHS

• Oxfordshire Looked After Children Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Service(DBT) Service

  A workshop presentation of a service aimed at looked after children who self harm.

• Intensive Community Outreach Service

  A workshop presentation on the development of community-based service for young people and their families.

• Complex Social Communication Support Team

  A workshop presentation on developing a multi-agency team supporting children and young people with complex social communication and autism spectrum disorders.