Towards Improving Youth Mental Health - Annual Report 2018

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TOWARDS IMPROVING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Year 2017 2018 % Change Schools Visited 68 53 -22% Schools in Programme 160 213 33% Student Interface 16,800 12,443 -26% The total number of talks in 2018 was 307 with 114 being given to Transition Years. The total number of students that our facilitators worked with directly in 2018 was 12,440, a 26% reduction on 2017 but we are very happy to have been able to continue to provide our services in 2018 and to have successfully worked with so many students. Year 2017 2018 % Change Transition Year Talks 186 114 -39% 5 th Year Talks 136 102 -25% 6 th Year Talks 99 91 -8% Total Talks Given 421 307 -27% Teacher Training Events 28 13 -54% Parent Support Events 19 12 -37% The number of facilitators contracted to the charity remains at 2 although efforts to recruit appropriately skilled volunteer support facilitators have continued throughout 2018. (see 2.1.6) Year 2017 2018 % Change Facilitators Contracted 2 2 0% Facilitator Hours 1,400 1,500 7% Cost Per Facilitator € 13,294 € 15,061 13% Cost Per Facilitator Hour € 4.75 € 5.02 6% The number of facilitator hours increased in 2018 as both our facilitators had to take extended sick leave during the year and this is reflected in an increase in the cost per facilitator from €13,294 in 2017 to €15,061 in 2018, and an increase in the cost per facilitator hour of 6% but a decrease in the number of students reached per facilitator hour of 31%. While we regret the increase in costs the health and well-being of contractors is paramount especially due to the highly stressful nature of their work and having both facilitators on certified sick leave presented significant challenges that we will learn from going forward. Year 2017 2018 % Change Students Reached per Facilitator Hour 6.00 4.15 -31% Cost per Student per Facilitator Hour € 0.79 € 1.21 53% The factors reported above increased the cost per student served in 2018 by 53% to €1.21 however this was an increase in specific costs required by the Trustees fulfilling their contracted employment obligations and will hopefully not be a recurring situation going into 2019. 2.1.2 School Resource Packs We distributed 290 School Resource Packs during 2018. School Resource Packs allow teachers or guidance counsellors in schools to provide the Four Steps to Help Programme in their school without YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION IRELAND PAGE 12
TOWARDS IMPROVING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2018 facilitation. This is useful for some schools in more remote areas, or for schools where an urgent situation has developed in the locality but our facilitators were already booked elsewhere. The number of student packs distributed at talks also decreased by 23% in 2018 but this was mostly due to the number of students who prefer to download the Student Pack materials from our website rather than use hardcopy resources. In 2019 we will be moving all our online resources to Yumpu for easy of download and online study. Year 2017 2018 % Change School Packs Distributed 310 290 -6% Student Packs Distributed 10,345 7,985 -23% Teacher Packs Distributed 241 421 75% 2.1.3 Teacher Support Packs We received 421 requests for Teacher Packs which are teachers’ handbooks and lesson plans and allow teachers to structure their own classes based on our programmes. Of these requests 254 were distributed by PDF or download which reflects a trend by schools to greener teaching methods with downloadability a priority. 2.1.4 Parents Programme 2018 saw the introduction of our targeted Parents Programme which was driven by requests from Parents that they wanted to have similar information to that received by their children in school so that they were aware of the issues being discussed. To assist with this process we developed and printed a Parents Handbook and put together an extensive series of Parents Programme Awareness events around the country where our team were available to discuss concerns and provide the Handbook. We distributed around 5,000 booklets in the course of these events. 27,204 copies of the Parents Handbook were downloaded from the Parents Programme website (parents.yspi.ie) during the year. 2.1.5 Students Programme Students are at their most stresses and vulnerable during exams and following requests from 6 th Year students we setup a website discussing exam stress and stress management at students.yspi.ie. The site received 9,823 unique visitors during the summer exam period. We are looking to expand the site for 2019 with more interactive features. 2.1.6 Parent Mentoring Groups As part of the Schools Programme we have introduced informal Parent Evenings for parents who would like to be briefed on the schools programme and receive the Parents Programme workshop. Our facilitators held Parents Evenings at 8 venues which were much appreciated by the attendees. Sheldon Park Hotel, Dublin 6 th November 2017 Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise 6 th December 2017 Carnbeg Hotel, Dundalk 16 th January 2018 Plaza Hotel, Tallaght 12 th March 2018 Sheldon Park Hotel, Dublin 22 nd April 2018 Maldron Hotel, Tallaght 11 th June 2018 Celbridge Manor Hotel, Celbridge 8 th October 2018 Abbey House Hotel, Roscommon 23 rd October 2018 PAGE 13 YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION IRELAND
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