Katie-Lee Percival - Programme Manager and Rachel Mitton - Talent Match Champion discuss the Mayday Approach and Talent Match initiative at the launch event of the Children, Young People and Families Personalisation Network, February 2015.
3. Wider Youth Context
House of Commons (2011) £800 million spent during 2009-10 dealing with
youth crime.
Department of Education (2011) Cost of young people’s drug and alcohol
misuse is £4.3million per year
Young Minds (2013) 11.5% of young people have a mental disorder.
Mental health in England cost is £105.2 billion a year.
(Centre of Mental Health, 2010)
4. Northamptonshire
Prevention Agenda
Northamptonshire’s Children & Families – Early Help and
Prevention Commissioning Strategy 2013-16
‘Enable individuals and families to access appropriate support as
early as possible, to help them maintain their quality of life,
prevent any problems getting worse and reduce the demand for
high cost, specialist support services.’
6. Out with the old… In with the new…
Coping Strengths
Fire fighting Talent spotting
Support Individual
responsibility
Managing Empowering
Weakness Building
Stereotypes Thriving
Signposting Brokering
Cycle of statutory
services
Positive networks
7. Working with young people (12-18) and their families to prevent them
moving into cost-intensive services
250 young people & families over the 3 year project
Eastern district of Northamptonshire
For young people-
Let young people take control
For the commissioners-
Limit & prevent reoccurring youth issues from happening!
Our Big Idea
-BU Be Amazing
12. Private singing
tuition
Singing lessons
at school
Wider Mayday
opportunities
Self
confidence
Constructive
use of time
Links in with
Autism
agencies
Music rehearsal
space
Health Hub
School
CAFFamily
Relate
13. Confidence
Constructive use of time
Communication skills
Developing talent
Sang in BU Be Amazing video, trying new
opportunities
Is now not hanging around with ‘wrong crowd’ at
weekends
Is communicating and getting on more with
mum and family
Music exams & singing lessons
at school
Client A - Impact
14. ‘I feel as a whole family we have benefitted from it so
far because Client A doesn’t normally socialise with
anyone except on a Saturday when she chooses to hang
around town with the wrong people…I hope continuing
this will show Client A how to become independent
and the right path to lead becoming confident and
believing in herself.’
Feedback from
Client A’s Mother
15. Example Outcomes
Achievements and engagement in education, training or employment
Positive values
Positive self identity
Young people don’t get involved in more statutory services
Decrease in anti-social behaviour
Better family relationships
Recognition of talents & a clear plan of action
Engagement in local community
17. Measuring Tool
Asset measuring Measures points in time
(distance travelled)
Under 7 minutes to
complete
Covers all assets including
family, constructive use of
time etc
Provides baseline
data
Online platform
Bespoke survey created
specifically for
Mayday Trust
18. The Future
Secure funding
The Mayday App
Development of the Mayday Operational Guide
Building our market place of opportunities & making it accessible to
young people / online e-market
Piloting Mayday measuring tool
Demonstrating that prevention is better than intervention
20. An £108 million investment to tackle youth
unemployment in 21 areas of England
21. Talent Match is targeting young people
who are:
• Furthest from the jobs market
• Outside of the benefits system
• Outside of the work and training
system
…and facing barriers to gaining the skills
they need to get into work.
Talent Match focus
24. CV writing
Work experience in early
years setting
Trust building
Peer socialisation
Confidence building
Mentoring Opportunity brokering
Work experience as a
business administrator
Exploring career as
carer
25. Performing room
Peer mentor residential
IAG session
Application support
L2 qualification
Mentoring
Opportunity brokering
Song writing
Guitar tuition to
others
26. Taster events
Volunteer School
Volunteer
care home
Challenge Group
Ambassador
Video training
Mentoring
Opportunity brokering
Volunteer Delos
Volunteer Charity
Shop
Personal film
project
RM
Here to give a Mayday perspective of how we as Mayday implement personalisation in the projects we deliver
We will be covering – BU Be Amazing, Talent Match and Healthy Conversations
KLP
KLP – a familiar horizon I’m sure we will all be used to hearing about and something we are passionate about tackling in a different way…young people lead!
KLP - What we are trying to do is a cheaper alternative but providing individual support tailored to each young person.
RM
RM
We are a forward thinking charity
Rather than our YP having to repeat their stories continually to professionals we look forward & focus on talents & skills
We don’t ignore that our YP will be working with other professionals – this networking goes on in the background – not our main focus
KLP
Working on the project since May 2013
Applied for funding recently and unfortunately did not receive it – feedback on the idea was very positive but stronger candidates on that day.
We are still passionate about this an are looking for other avenues for funding
KLP
BU combines ….
KLP – presenting a video our young people from BU created to illustrate the project.
KLP
KLP
KLP
Just to give you a flavour of what the project looks like in working practice.
It is similar to picking from a menu of personalised options tailored for each individual
KLP
KLP
KLP
KLP
KLP (pick a few below)
Bespoke tool for Mayday created with leading international organisation that focuses on developmental assets. These frameworks have been used in at least 70 countries around the world.
About 4 million young people in thousands of communities have been surveyed since 1990.
More than 2,000 workshops for practitioners were delivered in the past decade, reaching about 350,000 educators, youth workers, and other leaders in more than 700 communities.
Researchers have published more than 30 scientific books
and close to 150 journal articles and book chapters.
At least 25,000 journal articles reference this organisation and its work on Developmental Assets
KLP
KLP
KLP
Mayday Trust is contracted by Enable to host Talent Match in Wellingborough (BLF) as part of the Northamptonshire contract
Working in targeted wards
Employing three full time Talent Match Champions.
RM
TMCs will engage with young people who are the hardest to reach, many of whom will be “hidden NEET”.
Five specific groups:
Young people who are lone parents
Ex-offenders or those at risk of offending
Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
Young people with mental health issues
Young people with learning difficulties.
RM & KLP
Your experience of being a TMC
Changing perceptions – beneficiaries – let down by stat services…come with the same perception
KLP
Detail around the processes you go through as TMCs
The pitch – selling it to beneficiaries
Getting to know you – not forcing, developing talents & skills
Opportunities tailored to individual using Talent Pledge
RM
Talk about how personal budgets have been used & opportunities
RM
Talk about how personal budgets have been used & opportunities
RM
Talk about how personal budgets have been used & opportunities
KLP
Continue to work in a personalised way even when the alternative is easier for other organisations
KLP
KLP
Helping those get from the bottom – to the top of the mountain using conversations as the technique
KLP
Talk about how personal budgets have been used & opportunities
YP lead HAP