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Together for Future Dreams
Catherine Hislop

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Together
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Future Dreams

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Acknowledgment

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the organisations who have taken
part and with their participation we can make this project work and come into fruition.

Content

Background
After studying the social demographics of the local community of South West Herts and
showing the needs of the community, with respect to social, health and welfare.

This was done by looking at the wellbeing needs of those in the community by all of the
organisations involved.

 West Herts College

 Community Voluntary Services

 Organisations involved on the Domestic Violence Forum

 Organisations on the vulnerable adult forum

 Disability forum

 Minds Herts Network

 Viewpoint

 Guidepost trust

 New Hope Trust

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 Mind Herts Network

 Sure Start

 Watford Housing Trust

 Joint Commissioning Team

There has been many other organisations approached, but they want to wait and see how
the project prospers before they commit themselves;

 Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

 Foundation Trust Governors Ass

 Herts Equality Council

 Citizens advice

We looked at the;

 The increase of domestic violence

 Honour and ritual abuse

 Increase of violence against woman and girls

 Increase of violence in young peoples relationships

 Childhood abuse and the link to domestic violence, drink and drug related crimes

 Transference of emotions to others from trauma victims

 Psychological wellbeing effects on the physical and visa versa.

 Community engagement and cohesion.

 Mental health and crime

 Psychological therapies

 Downturn of the economic climate.

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Then the introduction of the;

 Time 4 Change

 Participating in change

 Time to change campaigns.

 Also the DVD produced by Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, “Talk
About It”, to encourage people from diverse ethnic and cultural background to look
after their emotional wellbeing.

This highlighted that this is the best time to start a project that will build up community
engagement and cohesion.

We intend to do this by building up a management committee from all of the organisations
who will be taking part in the consortium to provide the project sustainable management
structure and a stable infrastructure for future funding bids.

Also each of the organisations will have at least one Local Community Champion put
forward to be trained in the projects governance and engagement. Each champion will have
to give at least 8 hours a week voluntary to assist to build the project up and expand it
within their community.
They will receive training to expand their skills and knowledge and hopefully in the future be
able to gain employment within the project to train others.

There will also be Champions who are expert by experience;

 Staff of social and health providers

 Carers of people who need the provision of services

 Service Users who have sought the services

Who all have the knowledge of the needs for change and the changes required to make
things work better within the services.

Community Champions will set up wellbeing seminars within their communities and have
presentations to show how important it is to look after the emotional wellbeing.

From doing the seminars people will be picked up that will gain from taking part in the
therapies that will be on offer.

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Each Community Champion is expected to put forward at least 4 people a month, that will
prosper form taking part in the project.

They will also encourage people to take part in setting up Social Enterprises to sustain the
social needs within their communities.

There are already two pilot projects at implementation stage in Watford area;

 Revolving Door project, set up to improve the responses to mental health and
learning difficulty needs in the criminal justice system.
 Black, Minority and Ethnic Implementation Group, who are already implementing
project for Asian Women and then into other groups

With the results of running projects we have gained further knowledge of the needs of
population.

Herts Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (But they can be involved in the community and
communication side of the project, so that links are built to be able to HPFT) cannot be involved in
the therapeutic side as what we are proposing is pre-primary care. form further partnerships in the
community to breakdown the stigma behind mental health.

Introduction
Community Voluntary Services will be the lead organisation involved in the project
coordination, as they will employ a coordinator and a part time administration worker. Who
will both attend management forum meetings every six weeks to report about the
outcomes and needs to sustain the project.

We decided to have three different age groups to provide therapies to 14-18, 18-25 and
25+.

Liaise with all third sector organizations already providing mental health and social care
services, who wish to be included within the consortium, will sign a contract about their
involvement in the project.
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Those providing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. With;

 Talking Therapy
 Art therapy
 Music Therapy
 Gardening therapy
 Writing therapy
 Drama /theatre therapy.
 Wilderness Training/ Camping.
 Listening and calming therapies

Health and social advice would be provided from many sources;

 Citizens Advice
 Community Voluntary Services
 All Local Strategic Partnerships
 Herts Partnership NHS Foundation trust
 Social Services
 Police
 Domestic Violence Forums
 All organizations involved with safety within the community

By doing this we will also be tackling;
 Problems with education
 Anti-social behaviour
 The lack of community spirit
 Drugs and alcohol problems within the community.
 Homelessness problems with people
 Mental health problems that people have and the label's that are put upon them
 Generally how people feel about not being listened to.
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Aims
 To build up community spirit.
 Breakdown barriers of stigma behind mental health.
 To try and eradicate discrimination of race, sex and ethnicity.
 To stop violence within relationships and pick up vulnerable adults and children.
 All people who have mental health problem or learning difficulties have the
knowledge of there rights to make the choices that are required for their recovery.
 To give young people a voice in the community. By listening to their needs
 To assists people to reach their fullest potential and fulfil their dreams.
 To mentor people who have problems or potential problems.

Objectives
 To unite all of the different ethnic backgrounds, cultures and religions to work
together to make South West Herts to be a better place to live.
 To make sure that there is a Money Literacy program running in every
learning facility, and then further into the community
 To give people a voice within the community
 To build up steering groups and forums within the community.
 To build up stronger community ties with the local people and the police.
 Try to tackle the problems of drugs and alcohol, as this is the main problem
for anti-social behaviour
 To facilitate for arts an crafts etc, to be set up, so that people can develop
their crafts and promote recovery of their emotional wellbeing
 All of the young people concerned in the project, whilst being part are not
aloud to be on drugs or alcohol. If they get in trouble with the police, it has got
to be for a good reason. They have got to have good attendance at
school/college, and learning to the standard they are capable of, otherwise

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they cannot take part. All of the young people concerned have agreed to this
and are willing to sign a contract. So if any others join they will have to stick to
the same rules.
 The project is for the local people to show that they want to make a difference
to the community that they live in.
 Young people have also suggested that we do more for the elderly in the
community like a handyman scheme
 To build up communication between third sector and public sector.
 Build up stronger links with private, public and third sector.
 Signpost people to relevant agencies they require to fulfil their needs.
 Start care plan for everyone who takes part in the project and review at 6 monthly
intervals, to make sure that it still fulfils the needs of the user of the services.
 To change peoples believes in their capabilities due to psychological trauma or
emotional distress.
 Hold Wellbeing Seminars and Workshops within the community

Principles.
 We offer advice and guidance to people to help them make their dreams come to
fruition.
 Work together confidential to build up further trust with people.
 Show the people that they have a voice to be independent
 Be impartial, so that we can draw on the diverse community to work together.

Policies
 Community involvement
 Equal opportunities:
 Our service will provide confidential and impartial advice to everybody
regardless of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, age or
nationality.
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 It recognises the positive value of diversity promotes equality and challenges
discrimination.

Methodology
We have applied for funding from the People’s Millions to start the project up with funding
from the Joint Commissioning Team (JCT), to sustain the start up costs for the first year of
the project.

We intend to sustain the project by setting up a consortium of organisations that can apply
for other sources of funding, as well as turning over revenue from the existence of the
therapies and craft markets that will be set up within the community to sell the arts, crafts
that are being made.

People will have an option of paying for a table in the craft market or giving 10% of their
profit back to the project to sustain it.

It is hoped after the JCT see the outcomes provided by the therapies, that they will provide
funding for training and staffing for therapies for a further three years.

Employ a lead person who would liaise between all groups involved, to coordinate, train and
develop the community champions. They will also record all outcomes of the project for
further funding and passable research materials. A part time administration will also be
employed to assist the coordinator in the governance of the project.

Phase 1

The beginning stages of the project will start with training the community champions with
tools already that can be provided by Inspire East on how to engage the community by
utilising the toolkits that can be downloaded from Inspire East’s website.

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Some of the people who want to volunteer as community champions are psychological
therapists, so art and craft and other therapies will be able to start as soon as we get
funding to commence the project.

Hold Wellbeing Seminars in different locations in community each time. The first of these
will be in Mosque arranged by Sakina Shah from BME Group and Watford CAB by early
summer, ( date to be confirmed).

Recovery training should be provided to all community champions from third sector
organizations that provide mental health services for HPFT

Training for Cognitive Behaviour therapy is sought through Herts University, but to give
training in art and other therapies a knowledge of each is essential, to be able to provide

West Herts College are going to provide the premises to be able to implement the therapies.

They are also assisting the project with the marketing, as we are going to take part in all of
the functions that they provide to the staff and students.

John Dowdle, Chair of Newton Price has highlighted that Mind already use facilities for Art
Therapies. There is space on time table for the facilities to be used for other therapies.

Dan from the Sanctuary recording studios has expressed interest of being involved in music
therapies as he is already involved in similar projects.

Abbey National manager James Drake has said, he would supply staff to give free financial
advice and give talks to community groups about banking and financial awareness. He has
also expressed an interest in building business skills in community. This could be done in
several ways;

 Having competitions for best business idea.
 Encouraging people to take business ideas forward.
 People who show potential through therapies of having good ideas and potential
training about business through business link.

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Hold Community days to sell the products that are made by people involved in the
therapies. Discussions being held about craft markets in the near future for this purpose.

Encourage people with potential to take therapy further by going into education to expand
their knowledge and skills base.

It is also hoped that some people will show a flare to start up their own business or social
enterprises to sustain the projects and therapies being set up within their community

Phase 2

Will be year three to five, where people who have been trained to provide therapies will
have finished training and hopefully through other sources of funding from Community
Commissioners would not have to provide funding for training or staffing. So this funding
would be put into building a purpose built building for assessment for 6-8 people and be
able to provide the therapies from this location.

Phase 3

This would be until the end of the tenth year, where hopefully community shops have been
opened up to provide the community with produces and crafts from the therapies that have
been provided

Timeline for first year

 Draft proposal sent out to all stakeholders concerned by June 2010.
 Hold meeting for all stakeholders who will be part of consortium July 2010.
 Hold wellbeing seminar start in autumn 2010..
 Employ coordinator and part time admin by end Aug 2010
 Put in place first therapy courses and advice sessions Sept-Dec 2010
 Start training for CBT Jan 2011
 Hold fund raising events at different locations in community summer 2010-2011
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Projected Outcome.

 The overall outcome is to show the local authority and the policy makers that
the people have had enough of what is happening within our local community.
And they want to try and change things with the talents that and gift that they
have been given, like music, art and sport. By using their talents to bring in
the funding for the project. We feel that the authorities will then listen and not
treat them all the same, as it is only a handful of the people whom cause the
problems.

 People will have a safe environment to discuss how they feel about the
problems within the community and not feel judged if their ideas are different.
After all the old ways of dealing with problems are not working and our young
people are slowly killing themselves being ill advised about the problems they
have and the long term problems that they will encounter.

 This project is to give people a chance to show us that they want things to
change for their future dreams to be able to come into fruition, instead of them
seeing their friends and family dying with excessive drug and alcohol
problems. Brought on by many other problems that might not have been
they're in the first place if the people were better informed in the first place.

 So let us give people a chance to show us that they can unite as one as a
community and sort the problems out. As they say the old ways are outdated
and things have to change to make our community a safer environment for
them to become the future policy makers of tomorrow.

Cost
It will cost approximately £107,500k to set up and run the project for the first year, see
attached costs in appendix.
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The costs for staffing include one part time administration assistant and a fulltime
coordinator will be £39,000.

The costs are an estimate of running the project, we expect to be applying for further
funding to expand the project, before the end of the first year.

Recommendations
 That all organisations and groups who are involved in the consortium, has a
community champion.

 Get in touch with local businesses to build up links for fund raising.

 Get training put in place for third sector mental health providers to have staff trained
for purpose of providing therapies.

 Put in place Wellbeing Seminars as soon as possible to highlight Early Intervention
Psychological Therapies.

 Set up Early Intervention Psychological Therapies in art and crafts etc., within 3
months of setting up project.

 Community Champions will set up meetings and seminars to promote psychological
therapies being provided and further therapies that are felt is required for the
community.

Doing this it will safe the community long term financially as people within the community
will be treated sooner for depression, anxiety and stress earlier and hopefully not develop
acute mental health problems. Also doing these therapies, consultants would be able to pick
up people with underlying deep psychological trauma and emotional problems. As catching
problems early is important, as people with enduring problems self prescribe on
recreational drugs and/or alcohol and transfer emotions onto their children.

That could cause genetic problems in further generations from this bloodline which can
cause learning difficulties and behaviour problems.

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People could show aptitude for therapies that they have chosen to partake in and want to
develop it further by going back into education or starting up a business in that field.

So would therefore be building up the local community economically.

Conclusions
If we start Early Intervention Psychological Therapies people will learn to put in place coping
mechanisms for their problems. It is also a chance to highlight that Domestic Violence is a
big problem that 1-4 Women suffer and 1-6 men, also a big problem in teenage
relationships, 1-4.

A chance to show that differences are small that we are all the same as we are all;

 mothers and fathers
 brothers and sisters
 sons and daughters
 cousins
 uncle or aunt
 grand parents
so want to make a stop to violence and bullying within our community. To give people a
chance to fulfil there potential and be an active member of the community.

Let us unify together to show people that we believe in their ideas for the future. Unite and
show them the trust that they deserve, so that they can gain the confidence to ask for what
they need. Instead of them being pushed down and crushed, after all every child is meant to
matter. So we need to show them that they do matter by giving them a chance to show us
what they can do.

Many traumatised people are still like children emotionally and have to build in copping
mechanisms to express their wants and needs to build on the skills and knowledge that they
have to expand their skills base making them more employable.

Thus the micro economic climate will start to affect the macro economic climate.
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Appendix Costing for first year of project
Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Total
Income

JCT £47,000 £47,000
Fundraising from events £500 £500 £750 £750 £1,000 £1,000 £1,000 £1,500 £1,500 £2,000 £10,500
People's Millions £50,000 £50,000
Total £107,500

Expenditure
Staffing £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 £3,250 39,000
Managment and Admin £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 £970 11,640
Volunteer Training/
Development £1,500 £1,000 £1,500 £1,500 £1,000 £1,500 £1,500 £1,000 £1,000 £1,500 £1,500 £1,000 15,500
Expences £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 £500 6,000
Venue Hire and seminar costs £1,000 £1,000 £1,500 £1,000 £1,500 £1,500 £1,000 £1,500 £1,500 £1,750 £2,000 £2,000 17,250
Set up webpage £10,000 10,000
Contracts £300 300
Advertising £500 £500 £600 £650 £600 £700 £700 £700 £700 £700 £700 £750 7,800
Total Of Expendature £18,020 £7,220 £8,320 £7,870 £7,820 £8,420 £7,920 £7,920 £7,920 £8,670 £8,920 £8,470 107,490

Bf £28,980 £21,760 £13,940 £6,570 £49,500 £41,830 £34,910 £27,990 £21,070 £13,900 £6,480
CF £28,980 £21,760 £13,940 £6,570 £49,500 £41,830 £34,910 £27,990 £21,070 £13,900 £6,480 £10

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