Lewis Goodyear, November 2022
Those who are perceived as too high risk can’t access or are refused support, which increases their need for crisis intervention
We want to:
- Create new cross sector risk management training
- Review service provision for high-risk individuals
- Review the way in which risk is recorded on data systems (including housing)
- Review commissioning approaches to risk management
Local evidence tells us that women are less engaged in support because they feel unsafe and find it hard to trust services.
We want to:
- Feed our learning into forums who discussed women and young girls in, or at risk of entering, the criminal justice system
- Create safer spaces for women across the city
- Increase the number of statutory services working within specialist women’s agencies
- Increase specialist services for women who have had children removed from their care
It can be challenging to address cuckooing and currently there is limited intelligence on its prevalence in the city
We want to:
- Collect data to analyse the scale of the problem and who are commonly victims
- Create best practice training Support an awareness campaign
- Develop a cuckooing policy
- Improve how cuckooing is recorded on information systems
Feeling valued and engaging in meaningful activities is essential for recovery. Attending groups and linking in with community organisations reduces isolation as well as reliance on formal support services.
We want to:
- Create a resource for organisations delivering groups to vulnerable adults
- Deliver of the positive activities for adults in recovery fund
- Support development of a new directory of services within the city
People experiencing multiple disadvantage face multiple barriers when trying to access services
We want to:
- Deliver peer audits of services through the Coproduction Service
- Develop a joint assessment so that people can access multiple services, such as housing, substance use and mental health through one assessment
- Provide training for frontline practitioners and managers
- Support the review of existing pathways and services in Sheffield
Genuine coproduction and involving those with lived experience in the design, delivery and evaluation of services ensures that the right support is being offered to those experiencing multiple disadvantage.
We want to:
- Ensure that frontline staff, coproduction groups and senior leaders are connected
- Embed coproduction into strategic boards Create a Peer Support service
- Support SYHA’s Working Win Event, ‘how to make recruitment better for people with lived experience’ and other services recruitment across the city
Those experiencing multiple disadvantage suffer the most from health inequalities
We want to:
- Research how many people out of those being supported by Changing Futures have a brain injury or trauma and develop a support pathway
- Support the delivery of training on brain injury
- Improve hospital discharge planning, focusing on how methadone scripts are managed when going between community and hospital settings
- Create a hospital based team dedicated to coordinating the care and discharge of patients who are homeless
Access to mental health assessment and support is the most prevalent need yet biggest barrier this cohort face
We want to:
- Improve discharge planning and how it links in with community mental health support
- Improvements mental health assessment and support
- Improve support for those experiencing dual diagnosis
- Map mental health services and how they are connected
Changing Futures Sheffield