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Society Guardian article quotes the work of the Brandon Centre
Martin Brookes chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital (NLP), an organisation that analyses charities’ performance, quoted the work of the Brandon Centre as an example of how to use evaluation to develop and improve a charity’s services. In an article discussing how to analyse and reflect on a charity’s performance using NLPs recently published The Little Blue Book he referred to how the Centre’s evaluation of its psychotherapy service led to the piloting of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) and eventually the roll out of MST by the Department of Health, Department of Children Schools and Families and Youth Justice Board http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/10/public-manager-martin-brookes.
New Philanthropy Capital quotes Brandon Centre’s MST project
In a report on how the charity sector is contributing to tackling youth crime New Philanthropy Capital refers to the Centre’s work on MST http://www.philanthropycapital.org/publications/community/prisoners and exoffenders/young_offenders.aspx.
Group programmes for young people
We are running the Freedom Programme from Monday 22nd February 2010 for six weeks. This is a group programme for 16-21 year old women who want to avoid abusive relationships.
The next Anger Management Group for 16-21 year olds starts on Wednesday 5th May 2010. It will run over eight weeks and be based on a CBT model of anger management.
If you are interested in attending one of the groups or would like to refer someone contact Semeyra Sarwar on 020 7267 4792 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Parenting Group News
The Brandon Centre will be starting two new ‘Parenting With Love and Limits’ groups on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th March 2010. The Thursday group will be run in the evenings from 6pm until 8pm and the Friday group will run in the mornings from 10am until 12pm. There is no catchment area for these groups and parents can self refer or be referred.
The Centre has been funded by NHS Camden to pilot parenting groups for parents of ADHD children aged 5 to 16. The first group was very successful and there was excellent feedback from parents who attended the group. The second group for parents of 5 to 13 year olds will start on Thursday 4th February 2010 between 10.00am and 12 midday and will run for 8 weeks. Parents of 14 to 16 year olds can be helped with the Centre’s ‘Parenting With Love and Limits’ programme. Only Camden parents can attend the ADHD parenting group and they need to be referred by a specialist that has diagnosed their child with ADHD.
If you are interested in joining a group or making a referral please contact Charlotte Reynolds on 020 7424 9935 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Counselling news
The Centre now offers Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for young people. If you would like to find out about CBT go to the website of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
New Philanthropy Capital Recommends The Centre
New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) is a charity that maximises the impact of donors and charities - it does this through independent research, tools for charities and advice for donors. Its research guides donors on how best to support causes such as cancer, education and mental health. As well as highlighting the areas of greatest need, NPC identifies charities that could use donations to best effect. Heads up,NCP’s report on children and young people’s mental health, explores how charities are helping young people recover from mental health problems. The Brandon Centre is one of the charities that NPC highlights as a centre of excellence New Philanthropy Capital website.
Multisystemic Therapy
The Centre’s has been funded by the Department of Health and the Youth Justice Board to participate in a 3-year pilot of MST testing its effectiveness in treating problem sexual behavour among young offenders convicted of sexual offences.
Contraceptive and Sexual Health Service
Under the C-Card Scheme, we are now providing various types of condoms including Durex©. Come to our condom drop-in service and pick up plain, flavoured, mixed or pleasure packs.
We now provide urine STI (Sexually Transmitted Infection) testing for gonorrhea for young men as well as young women. If you would like to book an appointment to have a urine gonorrhea test, please contact the centre on 020 7267 4792 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Via the Chlamydia Screening Programme, we also provide self-testing kits for Chlamydia (a sexually transmitted infection) for young people wanting to drop-in and test.
New email addresses
The Centre can be contacted on the following email addresses.
Administration: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Contraceptive Service: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Psychotherapy and counselling: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Multisystemic therapy and parenting programmes: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Counselling at the Drum: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The Director: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
