Agreeing the task

This session focuses on the right hand quadrant of the AMBIT Wheel - Working with your NETWORKS - and its corresponding stance features: Working in multiple domains and Taking Responsibility for integration. The overarching learning objective for this session is to understand the importance and challenges of working in multiple domains and to develop skills in addressing dis-integration.

Encourage the team to think about “what do we do here?”. What are the different ways of working with young people and families that we use in this team? You can use the activity described in Team training session: what interventions do we do?

Explaining the issue

1) Provide didactic teaching on the importance of working in multiple domains.
See the following material:

• Why intervene simultaneously in multiple domains?
• Working in multiple domains (contains video material)

2) Emphasise the tension between Working in multiple domains and Taking Responsibility for integration.

• Working in multiple domains often requires the involvement of multiple workers and agencies, which increases the risk of Dis-integration. Provide didactic teaching on:
• Taking Responsibility for integration
• Addressing Dis-integration (contains video material)

Practice

Help the team to think about network dis-integration in their practice by completing the Sculpting a network exercise. Follow this up with the Dis-integration Grid EXERCISE to introduce the Dis-integration grid as a tool to help workers to explore and address dis-integration. Introduce The AMBIT Pro-Gram. Workers could practice using this in pairs or threes.

See the tag Training Exercises for Taking Responsibility for integration for a selection of other exercises.

Reflect

Facilitate a whole-team discussion in which workers are invited to share their thoughts about working in multiple domains and addressing integration. Make efforts to capture the variety of views.

Some not uncommon themes that arise from this session are addressed in the following AMBIT FAQs pages:

• I haven't got time to do this!
• If I am the KeyWorker, do I hold sole responsibility for everything?
• Are you asking people to work outside their competency/paygrade?

Manualize

Click on + Manualize our work to make a new page to record the team's reflections and to make a plan detailing how the ideas and tools discussed in this session will be used. Remember, the team doesn't have to commit to anything forever here. Your team may simply plan to practice using the dis-integration grid. It does help to formulate SMART goals, however, that include when the plan will be reviewed.