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 WIGTOWN LHCC
REALCARE BABY TRAINING/DEVELOPMENT DAY
15th February 2005
Creebridge House Hotel, Newton Stewart
The event was attended by 27 people with representation from midwives,
health visitors, school nurses, health co-ordinators from our 2 secondary
schools in Wigtownshire, youth workers, students and local health improvement
team.
The first part of the morning focused on the programme which is currently
being delivered in Annandale & Eskdale, this was very interesting
and was supported by the experience of Debbie Galloway an ex Moffat Academy
pupil who took part in the programme last year.
The second part of the morning was taken up by workshops, participants
were asked to consider the following three questions:
- How do we begin to roll out the programme in Wigtownshire?
- What age of student do you think is the ideal age to target
and why?
- When is the best time in the year to run the programme?
Feedback from the groups was as follows:
1. How do we begin to roll out the programme in
Wigtownshire?
- Recruit interested staff, have a large pool of people with one person
co-ordinating it, have stand ins ready in case someone can’t
make it. Get
the community involved. Hold training sessions for the volunteers.
- Funding.
- We need a facilitator for each area, initially a school project
with possibility of rolling out to community groups i.e. The
Hut & The
YMCA in the future.
- Engaging interest – community, media, parents,
health, schools.
- Initial training/awareness raising.
- Recruitment and commitment from
health professionals and schools and pupils etc.
- Setting time scales
and goals.
- Promote “Realcare programme”.
- Questionnaire – background
info
- What age of student do you think is
the ideal age to target and why?
- 12 – 15 years, debate, start older and work back.
- Why – facts and stats, maturity and responsibility.
- S3 – S4 (sexually active)
- C4U – could help determine age group, sexual health stats
- S4/5/6 part of wider course (health development)
- 12yrs plus – no one turned away.
- End of 3rd year & 4th years, becoming sexually active.
- From 13 years +
- Teenage pregnancy rates, chlamydia statistics/teach responsibility & lifeskills
i.e. budgeting and planning.
- When is the best time in the year to run the programme?
- After the prelims.
- Whenever is convenient for school & where it would fit in best
with the curriculum of the pupils involved.
- Between Easter & summer (early summer) due to holiday break coming
up and people drinking & having sex.
- Outwith exam prep time, May especially.
- Lower school – through avoiding exams.
- Higher school – September/October time.
- January – March before prelims.
- Depends on the school calendar.
After we had heard about the different sessions covered by Jane in Annandale & Eskdale,
we again split in to groups and discussed the following three questions:
- What do you think are important sessions to cover?
- What do you see as the aims and objectives of the program?
- Would you be willing to sign up for the pilot programme?
Feedback from the groups was as follows:
- What do you think are important sessions to cover?
- All session are important to cover.
- Ambitions is the least important session to cover.
- Contraception, support, commitment, pregnancy & labour.
- Ground rules through to labour also include screening and immunisation.
- Ground rules, all sessions of importance, evaluation and feedback.
- Pregnancy, contraception, STI’s, relationships (good & not
so good!), self worth/self esteem/peer pressure, blokes responsibility,
looking after your body, drugs & alcohol, smoking, promote community
services i.e. family planning, midwife, GP, health visitors, youth
workers.
- Mental health
- Reality & truth
- What do you see as the aims and objectives of the program?
- Input to decision making/choices.
- Promoting independence in decision making.
- Deterrent – positive & negative effects.
- Involvement of family ® making them think too.
- To provide a realistic overview of parenting, pregnancy, childcare,
lifeskills, options and choices.
- Insight into parenting/responsibilities/education/knowledge, lifeskills,
peer education.
- To show how much work is involved to show time commitment, to see
how well you can cope, would you be able to work around the baby.
- More aware of responsibility and the whole picture of having a baby.
- To have parental and family support.
- Try to involve boys.
- Would you be willing to sign up for the pilot programme?
- Yes from 4 people, 1 still considering.
- Yes from all of group 5.
- Yes from all, as long as time constraints are lifted and management
permission/support is provided.
- Yes if sufficient support, stand
by, numbers, management appreciate time given to cause.
It was agreed that the next stage in the development of the Programme
should be the
pulling together of two working groups, one for the Machars and one for
the Rhins ensuring that all disciplines are represented. Emma
Keery and Arlene McCurry have agreed to
facilitate each group and Kirsty Johnston will co-ordinate the rogramme. The
groups will ensure that the feedback and ideas which came out of the
development/training day are considered and incorporated into the Programme
as appropriate and that “teams” are identified to support
delivery at local level.
KIRSTY JOHNSTON
HEALTH IMPROVEMENT OFFICER
FEBRUARY 2005
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