OUR PROGRAMMES
Find out more about the programmes we’ve been running across Scotland for the past 15 years. If you’d like to know more or would like to visit us please get in touch with us at hello@mav.scot. If you have any media requests please get in touch with Mickey at mickey@dirtcomms.net
MAV Academy
Our award winning school programme has been running since 2009 and we've spoken to over 90000 young people since then.
We aim to give young people an understanding of the consequences of violence from a health perspective to help them make safer choices.
We welcome clinical volunteers from all sorts of backgrounds to work with us to deliver our violence prevention lessons in schools across Scotland.
If you are interested in becoming one of our clinical volunteers, we'd love to have you on the team. You can contact us on schools@mav.scot if you are interested in volunteering or if you'd like to book a visit for your school.
Navigator
Our award winning adult Navigator programme has been running since 2015. We now work in the Emergency Departments of 8 hospitals across Scotland and the surrounding communities supporting people with a wide range of social issues that can sometimes bring them to hospital.
Our Navigators support and empower people to make changes to their lives for the better and work to connect them with a wide network of community organisations who can offer long term support. We have a widely experienced, trained and skilled workforce and their work contributes to reducing inequalities in Scotland.
Our programme has been evaluated and we can show that we can reduce ED visits and admissions for our patients and that they really value the support offered by Navigator.
Youth Navigator
Our Youth Navigator programme works in the children and young persons hospitals in Glasgow and Aberdeen to support young people aged 12-16 with a range of issues that can bring them to hospital. Many young people present with issues relating to their mental health and wellbeing. Staffed by youth workers, the programme works in a similar way to our adult Navigator service to support and empower young people and to connect them to community based services that can provide longer term support. We'll work with schools and families to support them too and will often meet up with young people in their schools.
Ask Support Care
We've been training people on how to recognise and respond to domestic abuse since 2010. We know all sorts of people in lots of different professional roles have the potential to be able to spot the signs, ask about abuse and signpost to specialist help but many people don't do this because they are worried about asking.
ASC is our domestic abuse training programme and it will help you to build the knowledge and skills you need to ask about abuse and respond effectively to a disclosure. We can deliver the training as either a direct training lasting about 3-4 hours or as a training for trainers lasting a day.
We have trained doctors, dentists, nurses , paramedics, pharmacists, HR professionals, vets, hairdressers, the Scottish Fire service and many others. Please get in touch with us at hello@mav.scot if you are interested in training.
Family Navigator
Family Navigator is a new service and one that makes a big difference. Our Family Navigators work in the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow and provide out of hours support to families attending the Emergency Department with their children who may need very practical whole family support with essential necessities such as transport home, food and energy or just someone to listen at a very stressful time.
Our Family Navigator service can also refer on to our Youth Navigator and Adult Navigator services and can connect families with community services where needed.
On the Edge
On the Edge is a 12 session programme developed by one of our team and which is delivered as part of our School Navigator programme.
On the Edge works with selected groups of young people within a school to help them to understand the consequences of violence and importantly alternative ways of approaching problems or situations that may arise for them. The programme aims to give the young people a sense of hope, aspiration, belonging and responsibility.
Around the 12 session programme the School Navigators provide both regular one to one sessions and drop in sessions for the group of young people they are working with, and drop in sessions for any young person in the school who has concerns about anything or just wants a chat.
Our School Navigator programme is resource intensive so at the moment we are working to capacity and not able to take on further schools in this academic year but we are happy to receive notes of interest. Please email schools@mav.scot