‘Breaking Ground, Hitting Ground: A Sure Start Rapid Response Service for Parents and their Under Fours’
‘Breaking Ground, Hitting Ground: A Sure Start Rapid Response Service for Parents and their Under Fours’
Urwin C. (2005) ‘Breaking Ground, Hitting Ground: A Sure Start Rapid Response Service for Parents and their Under Fours’ in J.Launer, S.Blake, and D. Daws (eds) Reflecting on Reality: Psychotherapists at Work in Primary Care, London, Karnac, pp 111-131.
This chapter describes a community-based service for under-fives established and evaluated within Sure Start in 2001-2. Comparing cases seen in the community service with cases seen in the main service, it highlights adaptations required of CAMHS in working creatively with voluntary agencies and so-called hard to reach populations. Four cases from diverse ethnic backgrounds illustrate the adaptations to families’ expectations and disadvantaged contexts that may be required. This project provided a model for community based under-fives services developed elsewhere in the country, and for CAMHS contributions to the newly developing Children’s Centres in the London Borough where it was instigated.
see also Urwin 2003 for abstract to an article of the same name