{"id":986,"date":"2015-02-05T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/?p=986"},"modified":"2015-07-22T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:20:13","slug":"team-jam-update-falkirk-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/relationships-matter\/2015\/02\/05\/team-jam-update-falkirk-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Team JAM Update – Falkirk Council"},"content":{"rendered":"
Guest blog from\u00a0Maddy Ross<\/a>: Facilitator of the\u00a0Falkirk Council<\/a> Needing Permission: Working with Tremanna young people\u2019s home to think about continuing relationships for people leaving care<\/strong><\/p>\n Understand<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We began by thinking about what things would be like if we overcame the barrier that the group had brought to the Jam, and summarised our thoughts with this statement:<\/p>\n \u201cContinuing relationships between young people leaving care and their former workers are natural\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We then talked about everyone\u2019s experiences of where things are now, focusing on the forces that help us to move towards the desired outcome, and the forces that hinder us from doing so.<\/p>\n Some of the \u2018Forces that hinder\u2019:<\/p>\n Some of the \u2018Forces that help\u2019:<\/p>\n Keeping the \u2018Forces that help\u2019 for the Develop session, we clustered the \u2018Forces that hinder\u2019 into themes then voted on them to focus our discussions for the rest of the day.\u00a0 The main theme we chose to focus on was around fear and uncertainty and we spent some more time teasing out details about this before moving into the Develop session.<\/p>\n Develop<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the Develop session, we brainstormed ideas around how to address our themes.\u00a0 Our discussions were beginning to go around in circles a bit when one of the young people from Tremanna spelled out for us what we should be focusing on:<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be able to keep in touch with the staff I want and for that to be ok.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n This helped us to decide that for the rest of the day we\u2019d spend time outlining a basic process for young people and staff who want to keep in touch.\u00a0 No doubt this seems like common sense, but why does it need to be more complicated?\u00a0 Our discussions around the changing attitudes of workers suggested that culture change around continuing relationships was well underway, but until it was fully embedded, some people (both workers and care leavers) would seek explicit \u2018permission\u2019, and would appreciate the reassurance of an initial support structure to maintain their relationships.<\/p>\n As part of the Develop session, we also acknowledged a longer-term goal to revise the recruitment process, beginning with a statement of values put together with young people from Tremanna, and ensuring that young people were involved in the interviewing process.<\/p>\n Create<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n In the Create session we talked about what the key parts of the process would be, and we placed a lot of emphasis on each plan being highly personalised and built on honesty.\u00a0 We talked about whether there should be a document that set out how the young person wanted to stay in touch, as everyone would have their own preferences, but decided just to define a loose process at this stage, which would include the following:<\/p>\n Share<\/strong><\/p>\n For the Share part of the day, the team opted to showcase the process to the wider Jam by role-playing some of the conversations they envisioned.<\/p>\n Going forward<\/strong><\/p>\n Tremanna intend to prototype the plan with a young person who has just secured their own tenancy, and will consider how to encourage the wider workforce to want to be part of continuing relationships through values training.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guest blog from\u00a0Maddy Ross: Facilitator of the\u00a0Falkirk Council \u00a0group. 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