Acute Team in Youth Psychiatric Services Targeted to the Residential Child Care

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

Many of the children living in vulnerable living environments in families and/or in the residential child care settings tend to be in need of psychiatric treatment as well as child protection services. There is an urgent demand for closer collaboration between health and social sector in order to ensure more effective work in child welfare settings. However, it is widely known that collaboration between child protection services and mental health services is not working well and the outcomes for vulnerable children are poor. It is a regrettable fact that child protection services, particularly residential care, suffer the lack of mental health services and paradoxically, children taken into care don’t always receive the out-patient psychiatric help they are entitled to. Children living in residential care are the most vulnerable ones and at the moment systems in partner countries are not meeting their needs well. The common problem is that the professional expertise stays in silos; professionals act in separate sectors and thus effective interprofessional networking is difficult to establish. Each care profession has a different working culture, values and behaviors. One promising way in helping children and adolescents is an acute team work model. It is still fairly new approach in youth psychiatric services in Finland and not existing at all in Estonia. Within this framework ACUCARE´s objective is to develop a vocational training e-course for nursing-, social work and social educator students in order to create the more aligned joint VET programmes among partner countries. The e-course concerns interprofessional psychiatric acute team work and includes two parts: family work in open care (5 ECTS) and residential child care in foster care (5 ECTS). Project develops new professional skills and innovative ways of working. The e-course increases collaboration between students and practitioners working on the borders of the different systems and different countries.

Achievements (EN):

Many children in vulnerable living environments need psychiatric treatment as well as child protection services. The demand for a closer collaboration between different services is high, but professionals act in separate sectors and thus effective inter-professional networking is difficult to establish. The ACUCARE partnership considered it beneficial for specialists to learn from each other by using the acute teamwork model to help children and adolescents. The project developed vocational e-course trainings for nursing-, social work and social educator students - a new model of interprofessional psychiatric acute teamwork. The project mapped and reported the needs for interprofessional training and created the e-learning platforms. The training modules were developed in English and translated into Finnish and Estonian. The project’s main result was the new 10 (5+5) ECTS interprofessional vocational training e-course, including e-learning materials and an e-curriculum manual for the use of different vocational education training organisations. The e-course consists of two themes: family work in ‘open care’ (5 ECTS) - focus in working within families to promote educational partnership between parents and professionals; to bring together regional family services, such as maternity and child health clinics, early childhood education and care services, school and local family and early support services to help families residential childcare in foster care (5 ECTS) - focus in enhanceing the skills for an integrated care approach; to incorporate the interprofessional expertise and advance the existing child protection and mental health services better. A literature review about mental health care interventions in child welfare was submitted for wider international readership. Three scientific articles were planned, but the target was too ambitious. One article was published. National implementing the project results was well done by all partners. It was somewhat challenging in Estonia to find relevant training programmes where the developed modules can be integrated, as the childcare responsibilities are divided differently between organisations in Estonia and Finland. The project accomplished a certain familiarity and understanding of different child protection systems and professional cultures in the partner countries. Another objective was to increase mobility and job satisfaction of social and health care workforce and integration of Central Baltic labour market. The possibilities were discussed, and there are lots of similarities, but also differences in professionals’ attitudes to family and its rights and the concept of ‘family’ in Estonia and Finland. It is beneficial for specialists to share experiences and for students to learn about other profession´s competencies. The project used modern information and communication technologies for its work and produced e-learning materials. Project successfully communicated its achievements via presentations in international conferences and by organising seminars for the stakeholders. ACUCARE Project’s final seminar 2.11.2017 focused on promising interprofessional collaboration practices in psychiatric and child protection sectors in Finland and Estonia.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.2. Increased share of aligned vocational education and training (VET) programmes in the Central Baltic region

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project’s main result is a new 10 (5+5) ECTS interprofessional vocational training e-course, including e-learning materials and an e-curriculum manual for the use of different VET organisations. The e-course consists of two themes:1) family work in ‘open care’ (5 ECTS)2) residential child care in foster care (5 ECTS). In Family work part the main focus is in working within families to promote educational partnership between parents and professionals; to bring together regional family services, such as maternity and child health clinics, early childhood education and care services, school and local family and early support services to help families. The main focus in residential child care in foster care is to enhance the skills for an integrated care approach; to incorporate the interprofessional expertise and advance the existing child protection and mental health services better.E-course will be used for basic preparation of social worker students in University of Tartu, for basic preparation of nursing students (family work in open care) and nurse education (residential child care in foster care) in THCC and for nursing and social educator students as a part of already existing15 ECTS optional studies in TUAS. The e-course is especially designed based on the needs raised from the child protection field. During these two courses, the professional competencies and skills will be increased and interprofessional acute team work will be created for the benefit of students and target groups. Students will also learn to be aware of the other profession´s competencies. As a result both social educators and nurses can respect and value each other’s work more. The e-course is especially designed based on the needs from the child welfare and child protection field.This main result of the project contributes directly to the programme result indicator by increasing the share of aligned VET programmes in the Central Baltic region.

Thematic information

Health and social services Education and training Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More aligned vocational education and training (VET) programmes in the Central Baltic region

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Turun ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Department: Faculty of Health and Well-being

Address: Joukahaisenkatu 3, 20520 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.turkuamk.fi

Total budget: EUR 115 764.99

ERDF budget: EUR 86 823.74

Tartu Tervishoiu Kõrgkool

Name: Tartu Tervishoiu Kõrgkool

Department: Health care

Address: Nooruse 5, 50411 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nooruse.ee/est/esileht/

Total budget: EUR 21 641.84

ERDF budget: EUR 18 395.56

Tartu Ülikool

Name: Tartu Ülikool

Department: Institute of Social Studies, Faculty of Social Science and Education

Address: Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ut.ee

Total budget: EUR 50 494.25

ERDF budget: EUR 42 920.11

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Tartu Health Care College

Acute Team in Youth Psychiatric Services Targeted to the Residential Child Care

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University of Tartu

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Turku University of Applied Sciences Ltd.

Acute Team in Youth Psychiatric Services Targeted to the Residential Child Care

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Summary

Project name (EN): Acute Team in Youth Psychiatric Services Targeted to the Residential Child Care

Project acronym: ACUCARE

Project start date: 2016-03-01

Project end date: 2018-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 187 901.08

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 148 139.42

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 148 139.42.

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ACUCARE Project Seminar 2.11

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Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://acucare.turkuamk.fi

Publication date: 2020-01-30

Document date: 2017-11-01

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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