The Thames Valley Initiative

The "Thames Valley Initiative" was set up in 2004 as the largest of eleven national pilot projects to deliver innovative, effective and user-friendly services for those diagnosable with "Personality Disorder". It now provides these services as part of mainstream NHS provision in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. It also provides training for staff from numerous agencies and disciplines, a pathway to recovery for service users, and is leading a national research effort.

This site is a resource for others: it makes much of the TVi work and its documentation available to adapt, modify and use as they wish.

HOT NEWS: MAPPING THE MAZE

The National Personality Disorder Development Team's Summer Roadshow comes to South Central on 20 July 2009. A major thrust of DH policy is about developing pathways between elements of service. TVi - in partnership with the 'Exclusion Link' social enterprise - has done a Thames Valley-wide study of how some of these pathways work, and how they fail. The preliminary report is available HERE - and the final report will be published in October. If you wish to contribute, please contact map@tva2i.net

The site is divided into eight areas - roughly in chronological order of the Thames Valley project:

Origins - the preparation before the proposal was successful
Project Initiation - the process for getting everything going
Service Model - the 'blueprint' which the services were built on
Training Model - the way the training programme dovetailed into the services
STARS - a uniquely empowering service-user support and employment system
Operational Systems - the nitty-gritty of the administrative documentation we used
Legacy left - published and conference papers and presentations about the project
Future plans - where we hope to go next with what we have learned