Understanding the Role and Impact of the Wellbeing Practitioners for Children and Young People in the Midlands
The Wellbeing Practitioner for Children and Young People (WPCYP) role was designed to provide brief, evidence-based interventions at an early stage, with the aim of improving outcomes and reducing the need for specialist CAMHS interventions.
Presented as a series of 25 case studies, this report offers valuable insight into the role itself, as well as its impact.
East of England Mental Health Crisis Care Toolkit
A toolkit-based resource for those developing and providing urgent and emergency care and support for Children and Young People who may be experiencing a mental health crisis in the East of England.
Designed to aid the development and transformation of services for children and young people in the region, it offers a guide to help ensure vulnerable children and young people receive the best possible care at the right time.
Evaluation of YoungMinds
‘Fight the Pressure’ Vs Campaign
The YoungMinds ‘Fight the pressure’ campaign was a major youth engagement project, created in response to the rising number of young people with mental health problems amidst a dwindling level of mental health services.
This report evaluates the project’s key aims: to improve the availability, standard and suitability of universal support services and mental health services for young people; and to gain pubic recognition of the mental health needs of children and young people, thereby improving the public’s understanding of mental health.
Measure Up
This toolkit has been built to support those tasked with driving and implementing transformational change to children and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health services. It combines a number of easy to use tools and techniques, which will enable you to better identify your key stakeholders, determine and prioritise their needs and wants and convert them into a set of measurable indicators. These indicators will enable you to design your transformation around the needs and wants of your service users and other customers and measure the impact of your service transformation accordingly.
Self-Referral Readiness Tool
The purpose of this document is to provide framework for sites considering implementing a self-referral process to understand how prepared their system and services are currently. The aim is that this document can be used as an assessment to support implementation plans, and has been developed to enable baseline and subsequent follow-up measurement in implementing a self-referral process.
Care and Transition Self-Assessment Document
The purpose of this document is to provide a framework for units to benchmark how effectively their system and services are engaged within the involvement of young people and their families within the care planning and discharge process. The aim is that this document can be used as an assessment to support action and implementation plans, and has been developed to enable baseline and subsequent follow-up measurement in implementing and maintaining effective transitions for young people.
Site Outreach Programme 2019/20
Our Site Outreach programme offers workshops, training and coaching across the Midlands CYP IAPT collaborative and its partner organisations. The flyer below provides details of just some of what we can offer during 2019/20.
Making Research and Evaluation Work for You
So you think your project works?
In this guide, we explain how Associate Development Solutions (ADS) can offer you innovative, tailor-made solutions for all your research and evaluation needs, whether you wish to monitor a newly set-up programme, evaluate an existing one, or take matters into your own hands and learn about how you can do research on your own terms.
Children and Adolescent Mental Health Integrated Needs Assessment
A comprehensive mental health and social care needs assessment for children and young people, commissioned by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
The assessment considers epidemiological information, stakeholders (staff and service users) and comparative data from other areas in England.
To download this report as a PDF file from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham website, please click the following link:
Future in Mind Leeds: Health Needs Assessment
A needs assessment that looks at the mental health needs of the children and young people of Leeds, commissioned by Leeds South and East CCG.
The assessment considers epidemiological information, stakeholders (staff and service users) and comparative data from other areas in England.
To download this report as a PDF file from the MindMate website, please click the following link:
Future in Mind Leeds: Health Needs Assessment
Forward Thinking Birmingham: Impact and Process Evaluation
The findings of a year-long evaluation conducted by the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham and The GIFT Partnership.
It aimed to understand how the changes to mental health service provision for children and young people aged 0-25 and their parents and carers outlined in the new Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) model impact on key stakeholders across a range of service settings and types.
To download this report as a PDF file from the University of Warwick website, please click the following link:
Impact and process evaluation of Forward Thinking Birmingham, the 0-25 Mental Health Service
Unlocking Potential: A study of the isolation of children in custody in England
An assessment of the nature, prevalence, causes and impact of isolation and solitary confinement of children in the Youth Justice Estate in England.
Written for the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, it aimed to inform understanding and allow the development of recommendations to better protect and promote the wellbeing of children in custody while ensuring that isolation does not negatively impact reoffending and reintegration.
To download this report as a PDF file from the Children’s Commissioner’s website, please click the following link:
Time to Change: Make your practice mental health friendly
Evaluation of a project designed to improve people’s experiences of using primary care for mental health problems and to reduce stigma and discrimination.
The project – part of Time to Change and commissioned by the national charity Rethink – aimed to engage primary care professionals in training, challenge stigma and discrimination within primary care and empower people with lived experience of mental illness to deliver the training.
To download this report as a PDF file from the Time to Change website, please click the following link:
Time to Change: Summary of research and insights
A summary of the research carried out to help develop Time to Change’s first pilot children and young people’s programme. It offers an overview of the framework behind the Time to Change children and young people’s programme, offering insight to others interested in tackling stigma and discrimination among this audience.
To download this report as a PDF file from the Time to Change website, please click the following link:
Time to Change: Children and young people’s programme development: Summary of research and insights
The Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce: Key findings from the professionals’ engagement exercise
The findings of a qualitative online survey and three independently facilitated engagement events, completed in collaboration with The Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce.
The report considers some of the biggest challenges facing mental health services for children and young people. 764 professionals from across the country were involved, representing a diverse range of organisations that work with children and young people.
To download this report as a PDF file from the British Library website, please click the following link: