ONE-EIGHTY LIMITED 

Around 5 young people per year will benefit from One Eighty's intensive intervention, supporting their mental health and engagement with education. Investment in year 1 will support One Eighty to ....more

Around 5 young people per year will benefit from One Eighty's intensive intervention, supporting their mental health and engagement with education. Investment in year 1 will support One Eighty to strategically embed their provision in Bucks.

We have recently adapted our Make Me Smile project to meet the needs of young people following the pandemic. This includes developing an online version should a lockdown occur in the future and using ....more

We have recently adapted our Make Me Smile project to meet the needs of young people following the pandemic. This includes developing an online version should a lockdown occur in the future and using learnings from our Summer Projects, which we successfully delivered throughout the pandemic with plans for full and partial lockdowns and no restrictions. Funding would enable us to deliver the project to an additional 20 schools across Oxfordshire. It would include: 1) An hour-long MMS session delivered to a Year 6 class centring on a story of a character who is struggling with worries. We facilitate small group discussions, asking them to consider the strategies the character uses to get rid of their worries, whether these were good strategies, and identify approaches they have used when they are worrying. We teach young people to use our worry map, modelling worries and helping them to identify ways to become less anxious across different scenarios. The session ends with children making smiling faces. Evidence suggests that by combining oral storytelling and creative play, children are better able to absorb complex information. It also acts as a reminder to identify activities and think about tasks they enjoy. 2) After the project, we task them, alongside their class teacher, to deliver the same session to their Year 3 classmates. We provide them with scripts, resources and tools to deliver this peer-to-peer support. 3) Finally, we provide guidance to the school to host a whole-school MMS Day with age-appropriate mental health activities across all classes. Schools often hold fundraising activities across the day to raise money for well-being resources. We encourage schools to appoint Mental Health Ambassadors from the Y6 class. They inform a school action plan promoting Mental Well-being and support children with worries on the playground.

Part funding of One-Eighty's Kick Start pilot project to cover four primary schools including Abbey Woods Academy in Berinsfield.

Grant to One-Eighty

Grant to One-Eighty

Share of the costs in delivering the 2020/21 partnership with Abbey Woods Academy in Berinsfield

Funding for One Eighty to work with up to 7 young people in care in Buckinghamshire on intensive and bespoke mental health sessions with the aim of keeping them engaged with their education.

Grant to One-Eighty

Advice & support - mobilisation of organisation to reach vulnerable young people differently and to re-recruit specialist staff.

One-Eighty have agreed a partnership with Abbey Woods Academy to provide intervention services together with support and learning for school staff throughout the academic year 2019-2020. A two-fold ....more

One-Eighty have agreed a partnership with Abbey Woods Academy to provide intervention services together with support and learning for school staff throughout the academic year 2019-2020. A two-fold partnership has been agreed with Abbey Woods as follows: 1) Abbey Woods school will always have one intervention place allocated with One-Eighty 2) One-Eighty will provide one half day a week for staff support (3 hours). Typically, our interventions last 8 weeks, with young people meeting One-to-One twice a week for a one-hour session and their parent/ carer receiving a further one-hour session each week. In addition, a key part of our interventions involves liaising closely with teachers, TAs, SENCos and family link workers from referring schools and updating them after each session. Each intervention includes a very thorough assessment (usually 8 hours over a two-week period) which involves meeting not only the child, parent/carer and key school staff, but also contacting any other professionals who have been/are/or will be supporting the child and staff from any previous schools. Multi-agency working is a key part of our work and One-Eighty link with Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Social Care and other teams where appropriate and attend all relevant meetings during the course of the intervention. At the end of the intervention, One-Eighty writes a closure report which combines practical strategies for teaching and learning as well as more strategic interpretation and advice; schools often find this document helpful if they need to go on to seek further support, for instance through an Education Healthcare Plan. We therefore anticipate that we would be able to intensively support four children over the course of the school year, once assessment time is taken into account. This partnership enables the school to always have one place kept available for them – they do not have to join a waiting list which can be lengthy meaning the optimum moment for the intervention is missed. Abbey Woods Academy and One-Eighty can also maintain ongoing conversations about the next most suitable child for an intervention. This tends to lead to more appropriate and effective referrals. In addition, One-Eighty get to know the ethos, policies, practices and staff at the school which is helpful without the disadvantages of being too deeply involved – the use of Team Teach, safeguarding approaches and issues of confidentiality can all be pro-actively joined up. This model will also mean that strategies, advice and forward thinking can continue to be shared with SENCOs, Inclusion leads etc. after cases are closed in a way which is not possible for non-partnership schools. Although we deliberately do not always use the same staff for each intervention (we select staff skills to match the needs of the child), over time, One-Eighty and school colleagues will build helpful working relationships. Finally, although One-Eighty have a ‘standard’ intervention as described, in fact no two interventions are ever identical and partnership arrangements allow schools to opt to use their agreed allocated time more flexibly e.g. extend on piece of work if that is felt helpful, or shorten/close another (if, for example, a child moves on). This type of flexibility is not readily available for non-partnership schools. Although some knowledge and understanding of the school and its ethos is a helpful context for this work, there is an advantage to a certain level of separation between school and One-Eighty. Therefore, the staff support element of the partnership could take a variety of combinations and further discussions will take place with Abbey Woods School to finalise this element. Suggestions include: • Weekly, fortnightly or 4 weekly supervision for identified staff, either individually (for instance for the Head teacher or Inclusion Lead), or as a group (e.g. SLT, or all the TAs, or staff working in a particular area of the school – e.g. an Inclusion Base). • Supervision for newly appointed staff • Support and training for any members of staff linked closely to a child being supported by One-Eighty through a 1-1 intervention - in addition to that routinely provided; • Training for whole staff or specific groups of staff or individual staff on areas of identified need e.g. how attachment affects teaching and learning; different reasons for non-attendance and different ways of tackling it; supporting children to manage anxiety etc. • Training or information sessions for parents/carers We believe the combination of these two elements has the biggest impact for the school as a whole by providing multiple levels of support to staff and children. In addition to this Abbey Woods can have one place on our CBT+ 6 week training course to learn some of the techniques and principles we apply to our work with young people.

We wish to set up a One-Eighty Traineeship programme to help us meet the demand for our work. Over the last six years, One-Eighty has grown significantly – our reputation has developed, we have ....more

We wish to set up a One-Eighty Traineeship programme to help us meet the demand for our work. Over the last six years, One-Eighty has grown significantly – our reputation has developed, we have continued to achieve successful outcomes for our intervention and project work (e.g. in 2016/2017, of all the 64 young people that engaged in an intensive one-to-one intervention, all of them had 60-100% success in improving on their academic achievement, making positive behavioural changes, or understanding more about their mental health and how it may affect themselves and others), and in turn, the need and demand for our work has rapidly increased. Our success is now widely recognised and visible to organisations around Oxon and increasingly outside the county. In May 2017, we were awarded the OCVA Charity of the Year award and have been using this accolade to raise awareness of mental well-being in children. As a result of this growth, the professionals, organisations and schools who we are now working with, require a staff team that are well trained in the ‘One-Eighty model,’ who can contribute to the team and be available on a regular basis as opposed to the volunteer-supported model that we have previously employed. To achieve this requirement, it usually takes around three to four months to train a member of the intervention staff to the required quality in order that they can confidently and successfully undertake intervention work. Consequently, it is costly (for both the young people we are supporting, and the staff themselves), to increase staff capacity and we are seeking a better way to manage our recruitment, training and development of staff as we expand. The One-Eighty Traineeship Programme will achieve this – it is a cost-effective solution to recruiting and training staff to the necessary standards, whilst providing One-Eighty with a regular flow of new recruits to manage our growth and meet the increasing demands for our work. It will provide a good balance of new staff alongside a more experienced senior team to provide support and guidance. The Traineeship Programme will allow us to recruit a small pool of people who, after a relatively small amount of time, will be able to support with case and project work and contribute to making the programme sustainable. For example, a Trainee could provide support on a Make Me Smile session (a Primary School focused, mental health awareness project) before they are ready for one-to-one case work. Once fully trained, the Traineeship Programme will allow us to have a regular pool of Behaviour Support Professionals who are familiar with One-Eighty, its work and could immediately start case work without three to four months of recruitment, training and development costs. To initiate the project, we need to employ a ‘Trainee Project Co-ordinator’ to oversee the Traineeship Programme. They will have the relevant skills and experience of case work but, in addition, will be at the level where they are looking to, and can demonstrate a progression into, developing their leadership and supervision skills. We expect the Traineeships to be attractive to final year university students. Therefore, we will need to develop closer working relationships with the universities and colleges in Oxford so they can support us to find interested potential Trainees. We already have a working relationship through the student placement programmes and micro-internship programmes, and so we will build on these to link to specific course tutors such as psychology, social work and occupational therapy. We intend to create a longer-term training programme, focusing on all areas of case work such as one-to-one interventions and group/ project work but also create opportunities to work on wider organisational projects such as marketing and administration at key points during the year. Currently we have a comprehensive one-week induction training programme to introduce a new member of staff to the organisation followed by an in-depth shadowing and training programme for case work before a new member of staff is able to work on their own caseloads. The Traineeship Programme will take place over a year. Initially the Trainee will focus on One-Eighty’s prevention group and project work to introduce them to our intervention models and the mental and emotional health/teaching and learning elements of our work. Once confident, they will continue to be involved in these elements but will gradually transfer the focus of their time to working on individual cases. They will also then start to work independently on project work, developing their skills and experiences of working with schools and young people. By the time they have completed a year, they should be able to provide Behavioural Support work on non-complex interventions under guidance from a Team Leader, and they should be able to deliver independent work on various projects, e.g. delivering Make Me Smile sessions. Then, should it be mutually agreeable, they would join the One-Eighty team as a regular staff member.

Engaging and motivating children and young people to live healthy and happy lives

To recruit and train volunteers from Isleworth and Hounslow areas to add value to its six week programme of intensive support offered to young people. Volunteers would support the wider family ....more

To recruit and train volunteers from Isleworth and Hounslow areas to add value to its six week programme of intensive support offered to young people. Volunteers would support the wider family including siblings. Volunteers would be provided with 4 days training.

Stage II

over two years as continuation funding towards the salary of a mental health worker to support troubled young people to re-engage with education in Oxfordshire

One-Eighty

towards three years' salaries of Intervention Specialists at a project providing support to children and young people with behavioural issues in Oxfordshire

over two years towards salaries and running costs at a project working across Oxfordshire to re-engage young people with education through one-to-one support and group work