Philippa Havill Email & Phone Number

North Wales

Ohana Strengthening Families is a therapeutic service providing high quality therapeutic interventions to children, young people and their carers. Our aim is to promote positive mental health, resilience and stability for vulnerable individuals through the strengthening of attachment relationships and the improvement of emotional and physiological regulation. We specialise in working with adopted or Looked After children and young people as well as those on the edge of care.

Cheshire And The North West

Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

Primary Mental Health Assessments and provision of specific therapeutic interventions for children and young people.

Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

As Clinical Lead and Senior Therapist for Wrexham Action for Children's RAP Service, I was responsible for the practice management of a specialist therapeutic provision offering services to LAC and adopted children and their carers across two counties in North Wales. I had a key role in the development of this service and it's expansion to cover two counties. This service primarily uses a DDP approach to build connections with children, carers and other key adults in children's lives to stabilise placements and promote life chances for these children and young people. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES• Provision of therapeutic services for LAC and adopted children to address developmental trauma, attachment issues, loss and change, self regulation and behavioural issues.• Provision of support to foster carers, residential staff and education professionals to stabilise and support placements.• Dyadic work with children and carers to promote healthy attachments and co-regulation.• Liaison with key professionals.• Supervision of eight staff working across three separate projects providing therapeutic support to children and families.• Use of database to collate statistical information, monitor outcomes and produce reports for funding partners regarding performance of the three projects.• Promote the use of clinically evidenced interventions and appropriate evaluation tools to monitor outcomes.• Attend Steering Group and other strategic meetings to monitor service effectiveness and develop the services in accordance with the wishes of funding partners. • Provide educative input to residential staff to support and enhance therapeutic care provided to children in residential care.• Attend and contribute to case specific multi-disciplinary meetings including Child Protection conferences, Core Groups, Child in Need meetings and LAC Reviews.• Promote equality of access to therapeutic services provided.

Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

This service provided "Phase 2" on-going intensive therapeutic support to children and adults who had completed "Phase 1" of the IFSS (Integrated Family Support Service) for children and families where one, or both parents had drug or alcohol misuse issues. The aim of this "Phase 2" service was to consolidate change and address specific issues identified in Phase 1 of the work as requiring specialist therapeutic intervention. Interventions provided were based on the IFSS model and involved Solution Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy. As the lead practitioner in this innovative pilot project, I was responsible for the development of the Project and the supervision of my two colleagues.

Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

This service provided Solution Focused Therapy to children, young people and families across the county of Wrexham at a Tier 2 level. The service was designed to be an early intervention / prevention service with the aim of promoting the emotional well-being of children and young people otherwise at risk of developing mental health and/or behavioural difficulties.

Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

This Project was originally set up to provide specialist therapeutic interventions to children and young people who had been sexually abused. Later the service developed to provide interventions to children who had experienced other forms of trauma including physical abuse, witnessing domestic violence, emotional abuse and neglect.

Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES• Undertaking comprehensive assessments of families where children were considered at risk of harm and preparing reports based on these assessments.• Attendance and contribution to multi-agency meetings including Child Protection Conferences.• Attendance at Court to give evidence in Care Proceedings.• Provision of therapeutic services to children, young people and their families.• Undertaking interviews of children with the police where children were suspected of being the victims of abuse.• Undertaking independent investigations with the police where employees of the Local Authority were implicated in allegations of child abuse.