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Mental Health Promotion in Northern Ireland CATEGORY 4 Project name Contact name Address Domestic Violence, Community Development Project Noelle Collins Women’s Aid Belfast 49 Malone Road Belfast BT9 6RY Telephone number 01232 666049 Brief description of project Objectives Outcomes: Six month project within South and East Belfast Health and social Services Trust area. • To establish contact with community groups within the South and East Belfast area, raising awareness of domestic violence. • To provide training for anyone working, paid or unpaid, within community groups. • To organise three seminars with the South and East Belfast area bringing together relevant outside agencies to deliver a multi-agency approach to the problem of domestic violence. • To co-ordinate days within local communities. • Made numerous contacts with community leaders and activists and attended many meetings. • Set up and delivered awareness training sessions to 36 women’s groups. • Organised four seminars. • Had two successful information days in shopping centres giving out booklets and leaflets to the local community. • Produced and delivered a two-day training pack for community workers. • This work also produced interest from many other groups, such as churches, mother and toddler groups, and advice centres, some requesting talks and more information. 108
Mental Health Promotion in Northern Ireland CATEGORY 4 Project name Contact name Address Health Visiting, Post Natal Depression Screening and Intervention Project Marion McAroe – Child Health Services Manager South and East Belfast Health and Social Services Trust (SEBT) Knockbracken Healthcare Park Saintfield Road Belfast BT8 8BH Telephone number 01232 565555 Brief description of project Objectives Outcomes: The screening and intervention programme began with SEBT in June 1998. The Project endeavoured to introduce the standardised use of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) into the Health Visiting Service within the Trust. The aim is to screen for and identify postnatal depression and to provide a range of effective primary and secondary interventions with the co-operation of the Community Psychiatric Service within the Trust and complement the primary health care services being provided by General Practitioners in the Trust’s area. In order to standardise the service most health visitors (some health visitors have yet to complete the sessions) within the Trust have completed four half-day training sessions provided by Cascade trainers who had received training from Jenny Holden, Lecturer at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh. The training aimed to: • Introduce the subject of postnatal depression (PND) and allow for discussion of its possible causes. • To describe effective intervention in the prevention of PND. • Introduce and enhance skills of person centred counselling and afford participants the opportunity to practise these skills. • To present and familiarise participants with the EPDS and allow for discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of using it as a screening tool. • To facilitate exploration of the likely problems associated with the above approaches. In providing the training and promoting standardised practice in the screening and interventions around postnatal depression it is hoped; • There will be an increased awareness of postnatal depression and its effects on the mother and other family members. • It will allow for increased efficiency in identification of mental health problems in the postnatal period. • It will facilitate and improve inter-disciplinary working in the field of postnatal depression, especially between health visitors, community psychiatric nurses, mental health treatment services and general practice. • To facilitate early and possibly more effective treatment. • To clearly identify to practitioners clear standards for the screening of mothers at 10-12 weeks post-natally. • To identify primary intervention strategies for health visitors based on the score of the EPDS and allow the health visitor to offer as an four listening visits and evaluation of their effectiveness by repeating the scale at the end of the intervention. • To raise awareness of postnatal depression among mothers and other family members. 109
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