Emotional & Psychological Wellbeing & Reslience Strategy (EmPWR)

HUBB atteended the EmPWER Commissioning Workshop on the 12th November at the Barking Learning Centre.

Introduced by Meena Kishinani, Head of Children's Policy and Trust Commissioning for London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, and facilitated by LisaWilliams of the Department of Health National Support Team, this event looked to reflect upon the strategic priorities for the emotional wellbeing for children and young people and develop effective actions to move LBBD forward to new and effective implementation.

Over 40 people representing varios interested parties across the borough attended. This included Senior Practioners, Head and Deputy Head teachers, a GP, Multi Action Location Team (MALT) members, Youth & Social Workers. There were also a number of representatives from the voluntary sector.


As well as providing a comprehensive update on the strategy implementation, Lisa facilitated the action planning. The ideas and suggestions are too numerous to list here but are being collated ready for the next stage of the strategy implementation by Paul Cosens, author of the EmPWR Strategy (Children & Young People) Project Brief.

As well as a positive and constructive session it is HUBB's belief that the Youth Mental Health Frist Aid programme will fit exceptionally well in to future implementation of mental health, wellbeing and resiliance in Barking & Dagenham.

December Monthly Meeting

The HUBB Monthly Meeting took place at Romford Baptist Church on 3rd December. As this is the last before Christmas this was our Christmas Party!









As befits these occasions there was plenty of food mixed in with quizes, raffles and silly hats!









The HUBB Chair entered into the spirit looking particularly dashing in his head gear.







Once again 'Jess' was centre of attention...although her attention was on the food!







The next Monthly Meeting will be on January 7th 2010 at the usual venue - ROMFORD BAPTIST CHURCH - Main Road, Romford (Next to ASDA). We look forward to meeting you there.

We wish you well for the Festive Season.

HUBB Website Update

The HUBB Website is being updated.

We now have a page that provides access to useful Capacity Assessment downloads for Havering and Barking and Dagenham. On the same page are Safeguard Alert forms for these two London Boroughs.

The website gives an overview of HUBB Advocacy Services, including Independent Mental Capacity Advocates (IMCA) and Independent Mental Health Advocates (IMHA). The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) page outlines this element of the Mental Capacity Act and provides information on the training HUBB provides.

'Personalisation' is starting to make its presence felt in and around services for Mental Health. Advocacy will form an important part of this process. Although in its embryonic stage we are developing a Personalisation section to the website.

HUBB's Training & Development department is in demand. In the last month we have been running Mental Health First Aid courses, DOLS training, Recovery Star programmes, amongst others.

2010 looks like being a busy year!