Shine is a regional YMCA project seeking to improve access to accommodation and support for young people with complex needs. The project has been led by YMCA Leicester for three years working in partnership with YMCA; Heart of England, Burton & District, Wellington & Telford, Lincolnshire, North Staffordshire and Sutton Coldfield. We would like to invite you to this event to share our learning and reflections, hear from experts in the field and discuss trauma informed environments at accommodation settings.

Speakers

Dr Kate Broadhurst: What have we learnt about adapting organisational culture to better work with complex needs?

Dr Kate Broadhurst is a socio-economic policy researcher with over 25 years experience working across the public, private and voluntary sector in a range of research, consultancy and programme management roles. Her expertise centres on the public and voluntary sector management and service delivery in the field of social cohesion with a focus on crime and community safety, education and youth justice. Kate’s research interests also include place-based partnerships, collaboration and service co-production.

Pauline Tomlinson: Heart of England; Our journey with Shine

Pauline is the CEO of YMCA Heart of England. YMCA Heart Of England's mission is to inspire young people to discover their potential so that they can live life in all its fullness. At different sites across Birmingham, Coventry, Rugby and Solihull, they provide; accommodation and support to help vulnerable people move towards independent living, youth services in areas of high need, training programmes, apprenticeships, and volunteering opportunities, affordable conferencing facilities and friendly nursery settings for the community.

Olivia Venning: An Introduction to practice guidance written by YMCA residents

Funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation Olivia joined Shine as the Coproduction Coordinator in 2020. She supports YMCAs to adopt coproduction principles and in 2021 collaboratively produced staff practice guidance with young people from YMCA; Wellington & Telford, Leicester, North Staffordshire and Heart of England which she will share.

James Holdcroft: A young person's journey

James is a Shine Worker and Team Leader at YMCA Heart of England and will be sharing a case study illustrating Shine's Healthy Dependency to Independency model in practice. What difference can having a specialist role make to the lives of young people experiencing complex needs?

Murray Graham: Changing culture; a policy review process

Murray is a Shine Worker at YMCA Wellington & Telford and will be sharing Shine's Policy review template and process. A collaborative process involving young people, frontline staff, consultancy and clinical psychology input based on Shine's six principles.

Dr Vicki Edwards & Dr Danielle Grey: Clinical Psychology in homelessness settings; A review

Dr Vicki Edwards is Director of The Purple House Clinic, Leicester. She has over fifteen years of NHS experience working in a specialist team within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).

Dr Grey is a Registered Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years experience of working in mental health and secure settings, providing evidence-based interventions across a range of psychological difficulties.

Purple House Clinic Leicester are a team of highly qualified and experienced Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists provide a range of therapy and specialist assessment services , including: adult mental health, child & adolescent mental health, child behaviour/ parenting, adopted children and learning difficulties.

Workshops

We invite you choose one of three exciting workshops to join.

Workshop 1: The use of Cognitive Analytic Therapy in creating a whole team approach to working with people experiencing complex needs.

Led by Ellie McNeil, CEO YMCA Together

YMCA Together is a medium sized charity delivering psychologically informed support in accommodation settings to people who are experiencing homelessness, domestic abuse, poor mental health or have a substance misuse issue. We employ just over 160 staff, growing from 40 staff 6 years ago and from £2m to £9m turnover. We work across the Liverpool City Region

Ellie has 17 years experience working with excluded groups, 15 of which have been spent within voluntary organisations. She has an in-depth knowledge of both the strategic and operational challenges affecting the delivery of services in today’s current climate. She has been with the YMCA for 7 years and in that time has secured additional services, engaged health partners strategically and operationally, successfully led a Consortia of other housing providers through a large tender exercise and as part of the leadership team implemented a psychologically informed framework that all YMCA Together services work within.

Workshop 2: What's next for Shine? (This workshop is open to central region YMCAs only)

Led by Scale Consultants Meg Armishaw and Evelyn Henderson-Child from Spring Impact who will share the outcomes of their work with Shine over the last six months.

"Scale Accelerator is a tailored programme that helps mission-driven organisations to scale their impact and change more lives. Participants benefit from an intensive programme of support that transforms their ambitious vision into a clear plan for meaningful action. We approach things differently, by starting with the mission, impact and change that an organisation wants to have at scale, rather than growth for the sake of it. Scale Accelerator equips participants with a valuable action plan for scale. Participants not only gain greater internal clarity and confidence but often go on to gain greater external backing and investment in their new strategic direction."

Workshop 3 YMCAs as Psychologically Informed Environments

This workshop will be led by Robin Johnson founder of PIE (Psychologically Informed Environments).

Contact and connect with Shine:

Website: https://shineproject.co.uk/

Email: shine@leicesterymca.co.uk

Instagram: @_shineproject

Twitter: @_shineproject