Integrated Prevention and Earliest Help Service (IPEH)
Together building a vision and plan for children, young people and families
This
bulletin is sent to you as our stakeholders and partners with a warm welcome,
keeping you up-to-date with all our service news.
Please
see the latest from IPEH, with details of how you can get involved and give us
your feedback.
Feel free to send any short articles (with an optional image) by 11am
Friday, for inclusion in the fortnightly Tuesday newsletter.
Headline News
Five
to Thrive
Your
child's body grows better when you give the child good food. Your child's brain
grows better when you do five simple things.
Respond
* Cuddle * Relax * Play * Talk
Respond: In
the first weeks of life, your child's deepest and most primitive areas of
the brain are developing. These parts of the brain will control all the basic
functions of the body such as sleeping and waking, appetite, and temperature
control. When the parent responds to the baby’s attachment behaviours such as
crying, back-arching, and chaotic arm and leg movements the baby feels
safe. Stress hormones have an adverse effect on this early brain development.
Read more about baby brain development here.
 Baby Buddy - Raise the Awareness!
Are you a parent, parent-to-be or working with a family who is due to have a child? Try out the Baby Buddy app from Best Beginnings, a multi-award winning free app.
It’s a personal baby expert who will guide you through your pregnancy and the first six months of your baby’s life. Track services and groups near you, find out useful facts and information specific to your child each day, keep track of your appointments and keep photo memories of your baby growing up... and much more!
If you are a professional, you can download the app and see what information is on there. Make sure you share this with families you're working with and let us know their feedback!
Download the app today. I have, have you? Find out more.
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Voice and
Engagement
 Chef says….Eat Less Sugar!
9 year old Fletcher from Storrington First School won the primary schools sugar reduction logo competition by designing the “Chef says…..Eat Less Sugar” logo. Read more information here!
The competition was part of the West Sussex Sugar Reduction Programme, led by the WSCC Public Health Directorate (WSCC is a Public Health England pilot sugar reduction Local Authority).
The Public Health team and IPEH are keen for the logo to be used more widely to increase awareness of the need to eat less sugar.
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Young Carers Festival
The
Young Carers Festival (YCF) is an exclusive event for young people with a
caring responsibility at home. Run in partnership with The Children’s Society, YCF was created in
2000 to give young carers the chance to have fun away from their caring role,
raise awareness of this often hidden group of young people and allow young
carers to share experiences with others in a similar situation. 2016 saw
the 17th annual festival with over 1,500 young people from across the UK
attending. Read more information here.
Please
contact Tom
Manning for
details of how you can get involved.
News From Your Local
Hubs
 Disability Pride, Brighton
Brighton Pride is proud to support the first ever Disability Pride in England, taking place in Brighton & Hove on Sunday 9 July 2017.
Disability Pride will be a proud celebration of the disabled community with a day of performances including live music, street food, education, arts and comedy at the heart of the city. The Disability Pride Brighton event is a celebration of and for ALL people with ALL disabilities. All ages and families welcome.
For more information click through to their website.
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Summer Activities for all ages!
Autism Sussex have organised a varied summer programme for all ages and abilities. Places will need to be booked as soon as possible so not to be disappointed.
Interested in finding out more? View their flyer
To book your place, please contact 01293 220054 or email Susan Crocker / Kirsten Bennetts.
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 Fab Four... or Five!
On Friday 14 July - Sunday 16 July, the DofE Team are holding an Award Skills Weekend for young people who want to do their Gold Award in the New Forest, Hampshire.
This is for Care Leavers (over 18s only) between 18-23 years old and is an exciting opportunity to get involved and progress to do your Gold Award.
For more details or to sign up, please contact Claire Tooke / 07860258243 or Peter Harvey.
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Discover your future
This is a free programme for 15-25 year olds who are not in education, employment or training, to try something new. Actvities include Street Dancing Workshops,Music Workshops and Cooking / Chocolate Making Workshops!
This programme is organised by Chichester Community Development Trust and run by skilled leaders. From these sessions you will be creative, improve your social skills and boost your confidence and self-esteem.
For more information, view the poster. To book your place on one or all of the sessions, please contact emmah@chichestercdt.org.uk / 07591 207893.
Training and
Development
'Meet the Team'
Want to meet the Hub System Leadership Team for Adur & Worthing or Arun? We are holding ‘meet the team’ briefing sessions, to give our
partners an opportunity to meet these leads and to share how we have transformed the way services are
delivered in West Sussex. We want to develop strong partnerships, clear
communication, connectivity and a joined up support offer across the
voluntary and community sectors.
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Friday 30 June 2017 at The Barn, Field Place, The Boulevard, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 1NP from either 9:30am-11am or 2pm-3:30pm
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Thursday 6 July 2017 at Littlehampton Children and Family Centre (Wickbourne Centre), Clun Road, Littlehampton, BN17 7DZ at 9:30am-11am
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Thursday 6 July 2017 at The Phoenix Centre, The Regis School Campus, Westloats Lane, Bognor Regis, PO21 5JD at 2pm-3:30pm
To
book, contact Nicola
Falvey.
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Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Event
West Sussex Safeguarding Children Board are running a multi-agency learning event on Wednesday 12 July, 9am-1pm at The Littlehampton Academy.
This is being held following the publication of SCR Key: a Serious Case Review into Child Sexual Exploitation. The event is aimed at front line staff, managers and strategic leads from agencies and educational settings across the multi-agency partnership.
To book your free place, complete the booking form and email to lscb@westsussex.gov.uk.
To find out more, contact Helen Donelan.
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In case you missed it...
Hub
Partners’ Networking Event
On
30 June 2017 from 9.30am-12.00pm, Chichester Hub are
running an event at the Chichester District Council Offices, East Pallant
House, 1 East Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1TY.
This
event will provide partners with information about the new IPEH service and how
to access support in the Chichester District. It will offer an opportunity to
network and learn more about other services in the Chichester District. There will be space for promotional stands
and we would like to encourage as many of you as possible to get involved.
To
attend or run a stand, please email katrina.middleton@westsussex.gov.uk.
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