New Beginnings Conference 2010 Booking Form

New Beginnings: Conference Booking Form 9am – 5pm, Friday 8th January 2010 Please fill in the details below and choose from the workshop options on the next page (include your first and second choices of workshop for the morning and afternoon sessions). Once you have completed this form, please send it back to Claire Speer: [email protected] Name:

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Morning Workshops 1. What is Reading? Join Dr. Jane Davis, Director of The Reader Organisation, to discuss the act of reading. What is reading? What happens inside us when we read? Why is it that reading aloud and shared reading is so powerful? 2. Reading with Forensic Psychiatric Patients Dr. David Fearnley, Dr. Celia Bell and Dr. Kathryn Naylor facilitate a number of Reading groups at Ashworth Hospital, part of Mersey Care NHS Trust; a hospital which provides high secure services for men who have committed serious offences, and who have complicated and severe mental health problems. Join them to find out how GIR groups work in forensic services (mental health or prison). 3. Business and Funding Susan Blishen, manager of „Right Here‟ and the first person, whilst at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, to fund Get Into Reading, joins Chris Catterall, Business Manager of The Reader Organisation, to answer your questions about funding sources and application writing for GIR projects. 4. Reading with Young People In this workshop, four of our current young person GIR project workers discuss the best way to approach this type of reading. Join John Davis, Patrick Fisher, Sophie Povey and Samantha Shipman to find out the most effective ways to engage young people in GIR groups, and the best books/poems to read with a variety of age groups. 5. Commissioning Get Into Reading: NHS Wirral Kathy Doran, Chief Executive of NHS Wirral, Dr. Shyamal Mukherjee, and Kate McDonnell, Project Manager for The Reader Organisation, discuss the reasons why Wirral PCT commissioned the Get Into Reading project.

Afternoon Workshops 1. Research: The MerseyBEAT Project Dr. Josie Billington, Prof. Chris Dowrick, Dr. Andrew Hamer, Dr. Jude Robinson and Dr. Clare Williams talk about their current study into the benefits of Get into Reading in relation to depression. The research project is funded by MerseyBEAT, a collaboration of University of Liverpool and Liverpool Primary Care Trust, providing leadership in applied health research in chronic illness. 2. Get Into Reading in Libraries The role of the Get Into Reading project in public libraries: how it fits with the social and learning outcomes target, and with the new CILIP guidelines for public libraries. Jane Mathieson (Regional Reader Development Co-ordinator NW), will chair a discussion with library staff already leading successful Get Into Reading activity. 3. Get Into Reading in Mersey Care NHS Trust Alan Yates, Chief Executive and Lindsey Dyer, Director, Service Users and Carers discuss: “If you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book”. Find out: why Mersey Care was the first mental health Trust to „Get Into Reading‟; how the Reader-in-Residence project works; what a huge difference GIR has made; and what the Chief Executive is currently reading with people who like books and use mental health services. 4. ‘Read to Live’: A Community Hub for GIR, Monmouth Comprehensive School Jane Davis joins Carole Herman, Head Teacher of Monmouth Comprehensive School, for a discussion of the proposed „Read to Live‟ project. Carole discusses why developing a culture of shared reading is so important in secondary schools, and how we are able to take the project one step further: inspiring pupils to lead their own groups in the wider community. 5. GIR with People with Dementia James Freeley, GIR facilitator in Durham, joins The Reader Organisation‟s Katie Clark for a discussion of how to approach reading with those who are suffering from Dementia. This will cover the special considerations that go into planning and delivering GIR in this setting, including choice of material, length of session, structure and working alongside staff and carers.