Latest news
Camden awards C Card scheme to the Brandon Centre
The Brandon Centre has won the contract to run Camden's C Card scheme from 1 September 2010 until 31 March 2011. The service aims to improve the use of condoms amongst Camden's young people by providing high quality free condoms of the young person's choice and by ensuring that young people have the education,and skills to use condoms safely and effectively. The scheme has been successfully implemented at the Centre and now Jessica Thom, our contraceptive and sexual health service coordinator, will support other Camden providers in putting the scheme into practice .
BBC online features Centre's MST trial
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10786202
Department of Health and National Mental Health Development Unit report initial MST trial findings
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Pressreleases/DH_117344
Guardian reports Brandon Centre initial MST trial findings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/09/ministers-back-multisystemic-therapy
Dates announced for new parenting programmes
The next parenting groups covering the Parenting with Love and Limits programme will begin on Thursday 2nd September at 6:00 p.m. and Friday 3rd September at 10:00 a.m for 8 weeks. Please see the Parenting section of the site for more details.
Brandon Centre’s work commended in Society Guardian
Martin Brookes, chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital, an organisation that analyses charities’ performance, has praised the effectiveness of the Brandon Centre in providing evidence-based results for a recent Multisystemic Therapy trial.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/26/charities-big-society-impact-evidence
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%20prisoners%20and%20exoffenders/young_offenders.aspx.
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 contraception@brandoncentre.org.uk
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: admin@brandoncentre.org.uk
Contraceptive Service: contraception@brandoncentre.org.uk
Psychotherapy and counselling: counselling@brandoncentre.org.uk
Multisystemic therapy and parenting programmes: familyservice@brandoncentre.org.uk
Counselling at the Drum: drum@brandoncentre.org.uk
The Director: gfbaruch@btconnect.com
