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Creating a safe haven in schools: refugee and asylum-seeking children’s and young people’s mental health. |
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Child Abuse Review, 21(3), May-June 2012, pp.219-226. |
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0952-9136 |
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1099-0852 |
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The needs of vulnerable children and young people, including asylum-seekers and refugees, have been highlighted as requiring targeted interventions with specialist expertise. The Haven Project in Liverpool is an early assessment and intervention service which aims to support the needs of asylum-seeking and refugee children. The project was set up in 2003 as a joint initiative between Alder Hey, Action for Children, and the Ethnic Minority Traveller Achievement Service. It operates on a model of multi-agency collaboration essential for delivering coordinated services to vulnerable groups of children. The Haven Project team consists of a project director, a child psychiatrist, and psychodrama psychotherapist and mental health nurse specialist, an art psychotherapist, and an administrator. This article describes how the project got started by engaging and consulting with schools, developed protocols for interactions with school staff and with families, and has become an integral part of school teams. The Haven team apples a non-pathologising model to therapeutic work, using therapies that do not rely on the spoken word such as psychodrama, art, horticulture and music. The article concludes by highlighting the need for consistency, communication, and participation in services aimed at refugee and asylum-seeking young children. |
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asylum seekers; collaboration; mental health services; refugees; school children; schools; vulnerable children; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=1f2d1777-c18d-458f-b54d-6f7354dcc54e |
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