Social Work with Deaf People, Promoting Deaf Mental Wellbeing Conference

Thursday 18th March 2010 – 10.30am to 4.30pm. Jean MacFarlane Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.

Programme (with links to presentations where available)

Social Work and Deaf People – Strategic Challenges and Current Research: Professor Alys Young, Professor of Social Work and Director of SORD (Social Research with Deaf People) Programme, University of Manchester.

The Role of An Advocate Within Mental Health Settings: Emma Ferguson-Coleman, Independent Advocate/Trainer

Deaf Children and Young People - Promoting Positive Wellbeing: Katherine Rogers, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, SORD Programme, University of Manchester

Social Work within the National Deaf CAMHS Service: Julian Faisal, Principal Social Worker, Deaf Children, Young People and Family Service (National Deaf CAMHS), Springfield Hospital, London

Pathways to and from Specialist Mental Health Services and the Care Programme Approach – Denise Brown, Specialist Social Worker in Mental Health and Deafness at the JDU employed by Salford City Council & Mel Russ, Clinical Nurse Specialist, National Centre For Mental Health and Deafness, John Denmark Unit, Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

The Personalisation Pilots – Results and outcomes of Individual Budgets in Social Care: Professor David Challis, Professor of Community Care Research and Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Manchester

Sharing Best Practice Forum – Facilitated by Denise Brown and Rachael Hayes

Conference Debate with Panel of Speakers. What next and where do we go from here?