Real Skills Plus CAMHS
 | | | A Competency Framework for the Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health and Alcohol and other Drug Workforce
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Update for October 2009
The Werry Centre is pleased to announce that the Real Skills Plus CAMHS training compendium is now complete. This manual is a step by step guide that assists DHBs to implement the Real Skills Plus CAMHS competency framework.
The implementation team has been extended to include representatives from both the Auckland and Christchurch offices of the Werry Centre and the team members are looking forward to assisting your service and teams implement Real Skills Plus CAMHS.
Teams may implement the framework independently, or may choose to utilise the support of the Werry Centre. Several DHB CAMHS have already started the implementation process.
Te Pou have also completed the Let’s get real enablers to support the implementation of Let’s get real. These are available at http://www.tepou.co.nz/download-resources/.
If you would like to find out more about implementing Real Skills Plus CAMHS at your DHB please do not hesitate to contact the Werry Centre: coordinator@werrycentre.org.nz
Project Team:
Bronwyn Dunnachie (Project Leader) Email: b.dunnachie@auckland.ac.nz
Lyn Dawson (Project Coordinator) Email: l.dawson@auckland.ac.nz
What is Real Skills Plus CAMHS?
Real Skills Plus CAMHS is a 2-level specialist competency framework describing the knowledge and skills that a practitioner needs to work with infants, children and young people who have moderate to severe mental health and/or alcohol or other drug (AoD) difficulties, their whānau and their community.
The Ministry of Health has developed a knowledge, skills and attitudes framework for people working in mental health and addictions: Let’s get real: Real skills for people working in mental health and addictions. It is intended that this framework be adopted by the DHB and NGO workforce, working with people experiencing mental health and addiction concerns, by 2011 (see www.moh.govt.nz/letsgetreal ). The Let’s get real framework describes three levels: Essential, Practitioner and Leader. The framework provides a foundation for all of the competency frameworks relevant to people working in the mental health and addictions sector.
The Real Skills Plus CAMHS competency framework is an adjunct to the Let’s get real framework. Real Skills Plus CAMHS will support individuals and teams to deliver specialist competency based services. It will also support education providers to deliver competency based training. This will support positive outcomes for infants, children, young people and their whānau who have contact with mental health and/or AoD services. .
For a more comprehensive understanding of Real Skills Plus, please download the final draft of the document (above).
Implementation
The project team are currently developing a suite of tools to support CAMH/AoD services to implement Real Skills Plus CAMHS. The Real Skills Plus CAMHS project team aim:
· To engage with service providers to support their implementation of Real Skills Plus CAMHS. The process will commence with the identification of two pilot DHB sites by early 2009. The project team will then work with identified ‘drivers’ within the services to support the implementation process.
· To identify CAMH/AoD services training needs and develop a training plan to inform the National Mental Health Training Plan.
· To engage with Post-Graduate Child and Youth Mental Health Certificate and Post-Graduate Diploma Education Providers to ensure their programme content and Real Skills Plus CAMHS are aligned.
· To remain closely aligned with the implementation of the Let’s get real competency framework.
Contact Information
Dr Bronwyn Dunnachie, Senior Advisor, ph 021 353 027, b.dunnachie@auckland.ac.nz
Lyn Dawson, Project Co-ordinator, Ph. 09 369 73 24 or 021 43 2974, l.dawson@auckland.ac.nz
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