Moving On: Taking Transition Beyond the Clinic. Rachel Knappett Addenbrookes Audiology Department

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1 Moving On: Taking Transition Beyond the Clinic Rachel Knappett Addenbrookes Audiology Department

2 Develop your Transition Service

3 Learning Objectives Identify transition issues which are difficult to address in the clinical setting Establish a network of key professionals working with deaf teens in your local area and motivate them to work together Organise annual events for deaf teenagers using limited resources which will signpost them to support and services.

4 NDCS/MCHAS Guidelines Plan for the future, take in to account individual needs/aspirations Give Written and Verbal Notice of Transfer Transition work should start well in advance of actual transfer All service/support is appropriate for individual needs in terms of age and language Successful Transition Service Written Protocol Detailing Transition There is a named Transition Worker An initial appointment with the adult service before being discharged from the Paediatric Service An information Pack is provided

5 Beyond the scope of an Audiologist? Support at sixth form Careers Advice Financial support (DSA/other benefits) Leaving Home Low confidence Making new friends Acknowledging deafness Social identity

6 Social worker for the deaf Addenbrooke s Audiologist Teachers of the Deaf Emmeline Centre: Speech and Language Therapist Disability Employment Advisor Hinchingbrooke Audiologist Sixth Form Study Support Teachers NDCS officer

7 HIT Group Aims To ensure that the transition in Cambridgeshire is successful To ensure that the objectives of all local hearing services for young people are being met To ensure the teen-specific objectives laid out by the local CHSWG are being met To develop a culture of collaborative working across professional boundaries To signpost young people to the services and support that they may benefit from when they finish secondary and sixth form education - run events designed to achieve this and to bring them together with other young people and the professionals that work with them

8 Engaging Professionals Everyone is Busy! Get to know each member/understand roles and responsibilities Find out how you could support each other Honesty about strengths and weaknesses Firm delegation! Acknowledge achievements and discuss failures Remind the group about aims

9 HIT Group Structure Bi-monthly meetings Chairperson Minutes Own Bank Account - Treasurer Website/Twitter/Facebook Fundraising grant applications Constitution and Terms of Reference NDCS Quality Standards 2011: HIT Group cited as an example of good practice

10 Website:

11 Catering Name Venue Publicity Event Planning Date Make it Relevant Structure Finance

12 What do you need from your venue? A large hall for intro and presentations Several break-out rooms Quiet areas Outdoor Space Parking Cheap Relaxed staff!

13 When to hold the event?

14 Financing the event Sponsors Grant Applications, e.g Gold sponsors: Advanced Bionics Silver sponsors: Oticon, Cochlear, Co-op Bronze Sponsors: Starkey, Medel, Ely Rotary Club, Ely Round Table

15 Future Choices Exhibitors Regional Colleges Other sixth form centres Apprenticeships Student Finance Universities Access to Work Specialist Careers Advice

16 Independent Living Exhibitors Advanced Bionics Cochlear Starkey Oticon Medel Phonak Connevans Cambridge Deaf Children, Families and Young People s Service Sensory Services Audiology (Add s and Hinch) Emmeline Centre Addenbrooke s Active CAMTAD NDCS Hearing Support Service Action on Hearing loss - Hearing Dogs

17 Fun Room Pimp my hearing aid (Face Book) Go Ape Deaf Youth Groups RDA Other sports clubs Brochures DVDs

18 PM Workshops Music: sponsored by Cochlear Theatre tailored workshop Art Sport Cambs County Council Archaeology Previous Years: mentors

19 Structure of the Day am Registration +opportunity for parents to look around exhibition am Welcome Exhibition pm Lunch (+outdoor sport) pm Workshops pm Awards and Closing Comments

20 Some additional points on structure: Divide in to teams appoint team leaders Quiz forces your teens to engage with exhibitors Lunch time: outdoor activity appreciated Quiet spaces

21 Publicity Communications team Local Press Sponsors Social Media See Hear Cambridgeshire d/deaf teen of the Year

22 Moving On: BBC See Hear Program

23 Catering

24 Making it Regional Head of Bedford Audiology, Coordiantor for d/deaf students, Bedford College Norwich: Transition Lead Northants TODs Hearing Therapist/ transition lead, Ipswich, Paed Audiologist Bury, TODs Herts TOD Essex: Paediatric Lead, Epping, TOD

25 2013 Event: Teenager s Evaluation PM workshop lunch venue College and work Independent Living Financial Support Meeting CI companies Meeting HA companies Meeting Others Moving On Feedback Average Ratings Different areas of the exhibition have been rated Most ratings are on the upper end of the scale Meeting other teens and finding out about College and work = most positive aspects 97% would come again!

26 Questions