HUBB Annual General Meeting

Our AGM will be held at the Baptist Church in Romford on Thursday 1st September 5pm to 7pm.
Our guest speaker will be Bernie Graham who has written a book about his own personal experiences, 'Creature Comforts Animal That Heal' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creature-Comfort-Animals-That-Heal/dp/0684851636

20th Anniversary - book launch

On 4 August we filled the hall at the Baptist Church to celebrate 20 years since our very first meeting. It was a fitting occassion to launch our book 'Recovery is......'

Dinah was able to remind us of our early days of advocacy, when we were seen on the wards at Warley Hospital as 'the complaints ladies'. This is how the consultants used to greet us!

It was wonderful to welocme so many of the contributors of the book, which is availble from the HUBB office for £15 (plus £2 p&p).

Goodbye to Rob

Well readers, your previous blogger has left us and we are (just about) managing to sustain the website and blog which he created. Rob was delighted with his farewell gift, which was a lightweight shiny thing which (apparently) enhances the flash on his camera. Here he shows how NOT to use it....

HUBB & Right Here Newham - YMHFA

HUBB is working with  'Right Here - Newham' to deliver a series of Youth Mental Health First Aid programmes before March 2012. Coordinating this project for Right Here - Newham is Karen Douglas, Young People's Community Development Officer, Newham Right Here Project

'Right Here is a £6m programme to radically change how we look after the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 16 to 25 across the UK. By intervening early before mental health problems become entrenched we want to reduce the risk of young people's lives being damaged in the long term.

We are working with young people, frontline youth charities and mental health services in four local areas to develop new ways of providing support to those aged 16 to 25.We will find what works and seek to replicate this nationally to bring about change on a huge scale.' (From the Right Here website)

Rob Thomas, Training Coordinator for HUBB and National Training Team Member for MHFA England's YMHFA Programme, met Susan Blishen, Right Here Project Manager, at the Comunity Care Live 2011 Exhibition on 18th May.

It was particulalrly gratifying to understand more about Right Here and recognise they put young people at the heart of their decision making process - much like HUBB's ethos with mental health Service Users. HUBB is really excited to be involved with Right Here in Newham.

HUBB will be delivering 2 YMHFA programmes to an open selection of young people between the ages of 16 and 25 and 1 YMHFA programme as part of working with a school or college in Newham to attain MHFA England's 'YMHFA Quality Mark of Excellence'. HUBB will also be sponsoring one person to complete the 7 day YMHFA Instructor Training Programme with MHFA England.

In total this will provide Newham with 36 Youth Mental Health First Aiders and one YMHFA Instuctor. This will give a superb foundation for mental health provision at grass roots in the borough. Not only will it enable young people to gain awareness of mental health issues and help reduce stigma and discrimination, it will provide pragmatic applications for early intervention thus reducing a long term impact of mental ill health. The training of a YMHFA Instructor will mean they have a local person able to deliver the programme even more people making the programme deliverable and sustainable in the long term.

A further benefit will be that these young people will influence their peers and, of course, will become adults taking this awareness into their work and social lives in years to come.

Recovery Star Training for Staffordshire Mind

A very succseful Recovery Star training programme was delivered to the staff and volunteers of Mid Staffordshire Mind on the 12th May 2011.

The group were really engaging and apprecited the style and content oif the course. The key learning appeared to be developing their confidence in working with clients and their Star, whilst understanding the pressures on themselves and their organisation to collect data required by theiur commissioners and funding agencies. Keeping the Star with the client is vital and this was a key point to the group undertadning and working with the Star.

As with all organisations working with and promoting the Recovery Star they are caught in the middle. How do we keep the Star client centred but also enable the date created to help us and our funders?
The key is education and confidence. If a client moves back down their 'Ladder of Change' this could appear a negative to the organisation or their funders. It could be the opposite! The client has recognised the reality of their situation and is now able to make strong proactive changes to move forwards effectively and generate long term changes.

Many thanks to Staffordshire Mind for making me so welcome, and being so appreciative of the training.

Recovering Jane - Accredited

 HUBB’s ‘Recovering Jane’ training programme has been registered as an Accredited Programme by Advantage Accreditation. It has been designed specifically to help those who care for people with mental ill health what Recovery is and where the responsibility lies.

Lynn Burling with the Certificate of Accreditation from Advantage Accreditation

‘Recovering Jane’ has been designed and developed by Lynn Burling, who is an acknowledged expert on the Recovery Approach.

‘Carer’ can cover many aspects where someone is looking after someone else. This can be by relation, a professional carer or someone who has the care for another for short to medium periods of time to cover for others.

If you would like to know more about the programme contact our training department.

Youth Mental Health First Aid - Havering Success!

 Back:  Christine Jackson, , Susan Kite,, Laura Conquest, Donna Dorrell, David Parry, James Balcombe, Samantha King

Front: Lynn Burling, Poppy Jaman, Nancy Gilfillan, Jacqueline Eades, Margo Lindsay, Susan Francis, Lee Clegg

7^th April saw 12 delegates complete the Youth Mental Health First Aid programme. A true collaboration between Jenny Gray and Rob Thomas of HUBB, Sam King and David Parry of The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School, Lee Clegg of 14-19 Commissioning for Havering Local Authority and Mental Health First Aid England.

Poppy Jaman, CEO MHFA England presnting YMHFA Certificates to

Sam King and David Parry of Coopers Coborn School and Lee Clegg of 14-19 Commissioning for Havering.

Jenny Gray, Director of HUBB and Jacey Graham Director of Brook Graham Diversity & Inclusion Consultants and Coopers Coborn School Governor

HUBB YMHFA Instructors, Lynn Burling & Rob Thomas provided the training. This was delivered in 8 sessions over 6 weeks to fit in with the school half term. Coopers Coborn provided the venue and six members of staff to take part. They are also part of a pilot programme to achieve Mental Health First Aid England’s Quality Mark, demonstrating they are working towards the continuous improvement of the wellbeing of young people, not just in the school but also in the wider community. The six members of staff chosen to take part were selected partly on their interest and enthusiasm but also because of their strategic contact with as many pupils at the school as possible to ensure the breadth of coverage.

The other six delegates came from Havering College of Further and Higher Education, In School Counselling at Bower Park School, Havering Connexions, ARC (Pupil Referral Unit), 14-19 Commissioning (Havering) and the Havering Business Education Partnership.

To celebrate the participant’s success and their achievement a cheese and wine event was held after the final session. Jenny Gray, Director of HUBB, Jacey Graham, Governor at Coopers Coborn and Poppy Jaman, CEO of MHFA England also attended and presented the certificates.

As well as having 12 new Youth Mental Health First Aid instructors in Havering another major benefit of this programme is the drive and enthusiasm of all involved, delegates, facilitators and all the organisations involved is expanding the network and good practise in all areas of young people’s mental wellbeing and development.

We are already in the process of developing the skills within this group to look at how we expand YMHFA throughout the borough.

       Christine Jackson ARC (Pupil Referral Unit)

  Donna Dorrell - Coopers Coborn School

 James Balcombe - Coopers Coborn School

 Jacqueline Eades - Coopers Coborn School

 Laura Conquest - In School Counsellor, Bower Park School

 Margo Lindsay - Havering College of Further & Higher Education

 Nancy Gilfillan - Havering Connexions

 Susan Francis - Havering Business Education Partnership

 Sue Kite - Coopers Coborn