Connexions
Strategy and Connexions service section 8. 5 refers
HEALTH
RELATED ISSUES
YOUNG
PEOPLE AND HEALTH
1. Teenage Pregnancy
1.1 The Primary Care Trust and all Health Departments, including
health Promotion and the School Nurse service are considered to be major
contributors to the delivery of the Connexions strategy and by providing
personal advice, also make a
contribution to the Connexions Service.
1.2 Connexions is part of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, Implementation and Review group (S.I.R.) and
contributes to the delivery of targets in the local Teenage Pregnancy Plan. The
Teenage Pregnancy Strategy is managed by the national Teenage Pregnancy Unit.
(TPU)
1.3 Connexions provides an office base for the Teenage Pregnancy
Co-ordinator in Newport. The network of agencies working with the Teenage
Pregnancy Co- ordinator will work to deliver the targets in the South Central
Connexions Partnership business plan.
1.4 To assist the Girl's Friendly Society, (Winchester House Project)
in building capacity to offer a service to young mothers, in 2001 Connexions
made a grant of £10,000. Staff from the Project started tthe Diploma for
Personal Adviser training in June 2002.
2. Sexual Health Network
2.1
Connexions will
continue to develop links with the I.W. Sexual Health network and contribute to
the delivery of an informed service.
2.2
Connexions Personal
Advisors will use the sexual health network as a source of informed specialist
information, advice and guidance in their work with young people.
3. Healthy Schools Standard
3.1
Connexions will
continue to contribute to the actions of individual organisations involved in
accreditation for the Health School standard. Currently this covers attendance
at local network meetings and advice
3.2
Connexions will
continue to offer advice and training for Peer Mentoring Schemes.
4. Drug Prevention and Advisory Service
4.1
Connexions will
continue to support the Drugs Prevention Advisory (DPAS) to "Strengthen society's resistance to
drugs by supporting the delivery of all four aims of the government anti-drugs
strategy, through work at a national, regional and local level".
4.2
Connexions will work
closely with the Drugs Education Officer to support this work in schools and
the wider community. This will include the development of SNAP events for Young
People and the Global Rock Challenge.
5. Drug Action Team
5.1
Connexions will
continue to support the local Drug Action Team in delivering the Government's
Anti-Drugs strategy.
5.2
By the procurement of
additional funding for drugs education programmes, Connexions will make a
contribution to the Tier Two training of Drugs Workers
5.3
The local Drug Action
Team co-ordinator is a member of the Local Management Committee.
5.4
The Connexions Manger
is a member of the DAT Young People's Reference Group.
6. Child & Adolescent Mental
Health Service (CAMHS)
6.1
Connexions recognises
the pivotal role of emotional health and well-being in the achievement of
self-actualisation. It acknowledges the contribution the Child and Adolescent
Mental Health service makes to the delivery of the Connexions Strategy.
6.2
The delivery plan
identifies an additional, intensively working Personal
Advisor to work with the CAMHS team. Carrying a caseload of
eight young people, this Personal
Advisor will be able to offer time intensive support. The intensively - working
Personal Advisor will be line-managed by the local CAMHS Manager.
6.3 Members of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team will be
nominated to undertake Diploma for Personal Adviser training during September
2002- April 2003. A new Island based course will commence in June 2003.
6.3
The manager of the
Child and Adolescent Mental health team will form part of the Local management
Committee Steering group.
7.
South Central Partnership Board
7.1 The interests of Health departments are represented at SCCP board level by the Executive Director of the Primary Trust.