Our achievements

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS

1998: Runner up award in SmithKline Beecham Community Health Impact Award.

1999: Our school-based mental health services for young people at risk of school exclusion are cited as a service model and an example of good practice in ‘The National Service Framework for Mental Health’ published by the Department of Health.

1999: Our project the treatment of severe antisocial behaviour in young people is cited as a model of good practice in ‘Children, Health and Crime’ published by NACRO.

2001: The treatment of severe antisocial behaviour in young people is cited at length in a Home Office Research Study Report ’ Intervening to prevent antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review’.

2001: ‘Community-based Psychotherapy with Young People: Evidence and Innovation in Practice’ a book written by the staff of the Centre is published by Brunner Routledge.

2001-2003: The director Geoffrey Baruch is seconded two days per week to work with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team at the Department of Health (DoH) on the National Framework for Children and Maternity Services.

2002: Supported by a grant from The Cripplegate Foundation the Centre opens a new service at the Drum youth project in South Islington .

2003: Our work with pupils at risk of school exclusion is described in a National Children’s Bureau publication ‘Not a Problem? Girls and School Exclusion’.

2003: The British Medical Journal publishes a paper describing our pioneering chlamydia screening and treatment service.

2003: Supported by grants from The Atlantic Philanthropies, The Tudor Trust and The Youth Justice Board the Centre begins the first randomised controlled trial in the UK of Multisystemic Therapy, a home-based intervention for families of young people in serious trouble with the law.

2003: The Brandon Centre is inspected by the Charity Commission and is commended in their review.

2004: The Brandon Centre is successful in its application for registration with the National Standards Care Commission (which now comes under the Healthcare Commission) following inspection.

2005: The Centre pilots group and individual interventions for parents of teenagers whose behaviour is out of their control.

2007: Department of Health funds the Centre’s MST randomised controlled trial

2009: Brandon Centre is the first site in the UK to pilot MST for Problem Sexual Behaviour supported by funding for three years from Department of Health, Youth Justice Board and Department of Children, Schools and Families.

2009: Following a detailed independent assessment, New Philanthropy Capital concludes that the Brandon Centre is ‘an outstanding example of how a Youth Information Advice Counselling and Support Service can develop and evidence innovative programmes, which meet pressing local needs and have significance at a national level’.