Organisation Summary Business Sector:Health and social care Business Activities:Provision of evidence based systemic family interventions Business Location:Cambridgeshire, London, Norfolk and Suffolk Chief Executive:Joint CEOs, Dr Tom Jefford and Brigitte Squire Turnover:£2M Employees:43 Legal structure:Community Interest Company Website:www.fpmcic.com Family Psychology Mutual’s mission is to empower families towards a safer and happier future. It strives for this by providing high quality, intensive family interventions, underpinned by evidence of effectiveness. Its practice is very structured, with good internal quality assurance and clinical teams that are embedded with children’s social care and early help teams in the Local Authorities it partners. Usually, the families are experiencing safeguarding risks either inside or outside the home and there may be a risk of care entry for the child or young person. The organisation is strengths based in how it works, and seeks to collaborate with families to change relationships and build capacity for long term behavioural change. Using Multi Systemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy to achieve these aims, it has long experience of these models and how to implement and manage them so that long term outcomes can be achieved. It also works with the social investor, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships. Family Psychology Mutual is an employee-owned business; all employees hold an equal share in the company but do not profit share, using any annual surplus to invest in staff and business development. E3M Member Name:Dr Tom Jefford Title :Joint CEO A qualified social worker, Dr Tom Jefford worked for Cambridgeshire County Council for 24 years running the Youth Offending Service and leading the Drug and Alcohol Action Team, alternative education and also youth services. He has a long standing interest in evidence based interventions and also in implementation science, gaining a professional doctorate in 2020 from Anglia Ruskin University having researched the implementation of Multi Systemic Therapy in three locations in England. With his colleague Brigitte Squire, Tom established Family Psychology Mutual in 2017. Together they share the role of CEO. Tom is also a Director of The Edge cafés in Cambridge, which are co-managed by adults in recovery from substance abuse. Name:Brigitte Squire, MBE Title :Joint CEO Family Psychology Mutual and Clinical Director After 30 years of working within the NHS, and seconded to Cambridgeshire County Council from 2001 to work with young people who were persistently offending, in 2015, together with Tom Jefford, Brigitte took a brave jump into the unknown and formed the non-profit Family Psychology Mutual to allow other local authorities to commission quality, evidenced-based services for the most deprived children in our society. Brigitte has driven the commissioning and progression of MST (Multisystemic Therapy) in Cambridgeshire and Northampton County Council. She has led on four MST Adaptations for specialist client groups: serious adolescent substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, family integrated transitions, and adolescent sexual problem behaviour. She was a Sector Advisor for the Department of Health for four years to assist in setting up new similar teams elsewhere in the UK. Since the start up of FPM, she has worked as a Programme Manager overseeing the Pan London project, offering MST and FFT (Functional Family Therapy) to 10 London Boroughs within a social impact bond set up. As Clinical Director, she is now managing a FFT team in Suffolk, a FFT-CW (child-welfare) team in Norfolk and an FFT for extrafamilial harm in London. She is the project sponsor for a recent RCT in three London Boroughs in collaboration with Greenwich University. In 2007, Brigitte received a Cambridge Justice Award for outstanding contribution to Cambridgeshire's Criminal Justice System and, in 2009, Brigitte was a finalist for a national NHS Leadership Award under the category NHS Innovator of the Year. In 2010 Brigitte was awarded an MBE for her services to Youth Justice.
Organisation Summary Business Sector:Health and social care Business Activities:Provision of evidence based systemic family interventions Business Location:Cambridgeshire, London, Norfolk and Suffolk Chief Executive:Joint CEOs, Dr Tom Jefford and Brigitte Squire Turnover:£2M Employees:43 Legal structure:Community Interest Company Website:www.fpmcic.com Family Psychology Mutual’s mission is to empower families towards a safer and happier future. It strives for this by providing high quality, intensive family interventions, underpinned by evidence of effectiveness. Its practice is very structured, with good internal quality assurance and clinical teams that are embedded with children’s social care and early help teams in the Local Authorities it partners. Usually, the families are experiencing safeguarding risks either inside or outside the home and there may be a risk of care entry for the child or young person. The organisation is strengths based in how it works, and seeks to collaborate with families to change relationships and build capacity for long term behavioural change. Using Multi Systemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy to achieve these aims, it has long experience of these models and how to implement and manage them so that long term outcomes can be achieved. It also works with the social investor, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships. Family Psychology Mutual is an employee-owned business; all employees hold an equal share in the company but do not profit share, using any annual surplus to invest in staff and business development.