1. WELCOME
Dedicated Youth Mental Health Services:
The Human & Economic Case
Sarah Amani
Youth Mental Health Network Lead
Twitter: #YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

2. We need to challenge &
We need to connect &
support services to deliver
mobilize grassroots & strategic
better services for young
networks to commit to youth
people...
mental health…
Dr Rick Fraser
Sussex YMH Lead
Dr Katrina Lake
MH Programme Lead

4. The National Picture – Just some of the Developments in YMH
Ireland– Get on Board
Birmingham - YouthSpace
Norfolk & Suffolk YMH Pilot
CYP Health Needs
Assessment Tool
Sussex YMH Pilot
Kent YMH Pilot
Plymouth –The Zone Surrey’s Mindful Service

5. Income Indiv
Events
Mortality All
Genes
Health care NHS
Family
Social care Local
Authority
Income
Housing
Employment Mental DfE
Education
Resilience Health
Criminal justice MoJ
Trauma
Benefits DWP
Physical Env
Employment Firms
Chance
Third sector CVOs
Each of these links is evidence-based

7. What have young people told us about their needs?
 Appropriate and  Recognition of what they
accessible services want and need
 To be valued  Involvement
 Not to be judged or  Choice
stigmatised  Simple care pathways
“No decision about me without me”

8. Economic Evaluation
Of Services for 14-25 Year
Olds

9. Joint Commissioning Pack for Mental Health

10. www.youthmatter.jux.com

12. Youth Mental Health Monthly Newsletter

14. ‘My Journey’
Youth Mental Health App

15. Time Item Speaker
09:30 Welcome & Registration
10:00 Youth Mental Health Network – What have we been Sarah Amani
up to?
10:25 My Journey Ali Moussa
10:45 Coffee
11:00 Surrey’s Mindful Service for 16-25 Year Olds Sharon Snape & Elaine Fynn
11:30 Kent Youth Mental Health First Aid Pilot Yasmin Ishaq
12:00 Buffet Lunch

16. Time Item Speaker
13:00 Norfolk & Suffolk Youth Mental Health Pilot Service for Dr Jonathan Wilson
14-25 year olds
13:30 A Local Perspective on Youth Graham Vagg – West Sussex
Youth Services
14:00 Sussex Youth Mental Health Pathfinder Dr Rick Fraser & Alex Jones
14:30 Coffee
15:00 What do young people want? Andy Rooney & Kevin Skinner
15:20 Right Here Project Mark Cull, Rose Allett & Rob
Tronce
15:40 Voice Collective Claire Powell
16:00 Closing & Next Steps Sarah Amani

17. Youth Mental Health
Summit
Surrey’s Mindful Service
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

18. Surrey’s Mindful Service
A service for 16 -25 year olds
West Surrey – Sharon Snape
Telephone – 07771976770
Email – Sharon.snape@sabp.nhs.uk
East Surrey – Elaine Fynn
Telephone – 01737773089
Email – Elaine.fynn@sabp.nhs.uk
http://www.sabp.nhs.uk/services/young-persons

19. The Mindful Service for Surrey sits within the Specialist Services Portfolio of the
Children’s and Young Peoples Services for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS
Foundation Trust.
Mindful was created to promote engagement of hard to reach, hard to
engage young people aged 16 -25 with emerging to moderate mental health
difficulties who were not accessing traditional mental health services for
various reasons.
The service is an outreach service based in Guildford and Redhill.

20. • To provide signposting, consultation, assessment, intervention,
training and liaison as appropriate for presenting concerns.
• Consultation and training is aimed at enhancing the confidence
and competence necessary to deliver an intervention provided by
others, involved in the mental health care of young people.
• To work alongside and target non statutory and voluntary services.
• To raise awareness and increase knowledge of mental health needs in young people.
• To provide training and workshops for staff and young people.

21. • To provide added value not already met by traditional statutory mental health
services.
• Not to duplicate services already being offered and provided.
• Providing a mental health service that is not provided elsewhere for a group of young
people who have a high level of need.
• Prevention of long term mental health needs of this group
• Partnership agency with a mental health focus for this age group.
• Increasing mental health knowledge of staff involved with young people in this age
range.
• Increasing access & patient choice for very vulnerable young people.

22. Target Needs
• Young people who are homeless.
• Young people who have drug and/or alcohol
difficulties
• Young people in the PEET category
• Young people leaving social care

23. Target Services

24. Our Aims
• to prevent the potential of long-term mental health needs of this group.
• to work in partnership with other agencies to ensure the mental health needs for this
age group are addressed.
• to educate and advise those involved with young people about mental health issues.
• to increase acce.ss and client choice for vulnerable young people

25. • Community, out-reach based service which is informal, flexible, accessible and
non-stigmatising.
• Flexibility in venues and meeting times, including out of hours if required.
• Flexibility and ongoing attempts to engage if appointments are missed.
• Close collaboration with other services involved in the young persons care.

26. Challenges
• Two workers covering a large area
• Prioritising workload
• Expectations of non statutory services
• Partnership working
• The need for a flexible approach
• Engaging ‘hard to reach’ young people

28. Youth Mental Health Summit
Kent Youth Mental Health Pilot
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

29. Kent Youth Mental Health
Project
Yasmin Ishaq
Powerpoint by Roxie Parkins BSc (Hons) MBPsS,
Assistant Psychologist, Kent and Medway NHS and
Social Care Partnership Trust

30. AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE
• 3 objectives to the project
1) To hear from young people in Kent and Medway what helps
and hinders their mental health
2) To build resources in the local communities to support young
peoples mental well being
3) Commissioning a youth mental health service

31. Youth Mental Health Declaration
• 1. Engage young people and their families
meaningfully in service development
• 2. Improve understanding of youth mental health
within communities
• 3. Ensure access to youth friendly services and
support
• 4. Embrace a youth-focused, strengths based ethos
of care
• 5. Focus on resilience, hope and recovery

32. KENT PROJECT PLAN
 Investigate whether a youth mental health service model in
Kent would provide a more robust young person orientated
service.
 Understand the social, psychological and environmental
stressors that impact on Kent’s young peoples emotional well
being.
 Listen to the young people of Kent.
 Support the education/awareness of providers who work
with young people in Kent.

33. Demographics
KYMHP Kent and Medway
• 58 participants • According to the 2011 Census, Kent‘s
• All aged 12-25, median age: 17 population is 1,727,665 (Office of
• Males and female equally National Statistics, 2012)
represented, transgender heavily • 221,700 young people aged 15-25 in
under-represented Kent (Kent County Council, 2012)
• 62% of participants stated their • Males and Females currently
ethic origin was ‘White’, 17% represent 51% and 49% of Kent’s
‘Black’, 17% were ‘Asian’ and 4% population respectively, currently no
stated that their ethnic origin as statistics on the transgender
‘other’ representation of Kent’s population
• 66% of participants stated their • Approximately 94% of people in Kent
main occupation was in education, are of ‘White’ ethic origin and 6%
5% were in employment (including class themselves as BME
apprenticeships) and 31% were
NEET • In September 2012, 8270 young
people in Kent were unemployed,
• 90% of participants lived in the
representing 6.84% of all 16-24 year
North of Kent, with an even split
olds in Kent (Kent County Council,
between the NE and NW.
2012)

34. Some Key Points from focus
groups
• Overwhelmingly, young people felt that they were not being listened to by mental
health professionals
They don’t wanna hurt our feelings, they just wanna walk around the bush…why don’t
you just tell me what’s wrong with me?!
• Young people are all too aware of the stigma attached to having a mental health
problem, and find that this comes from both the outside world and professionals
I was gonna say that is actually the problem in itself, like, making it bad to have a
problem… once I get to grips with the fact that if I do find out that I have a
problem, the point is that it’s fixable.
• When it comes to LGBTQ issues, many young people felt that medical professionals
such as GPs were not approachable and did not know enough about the subject to help
them, even letting their own prejudices affect their practice
You wanna speak to someone with complete confidentiality… maybe a psychologist
would be the best person to go to… get it off your chest, someone you can talk
to… not very accessible though, you have to pay money to tell someone that
you’re gay!

35. Key Points continued…
• Many young people feel forgotten about by society, mental health professionals,
education providers and other youth-orientated organisations
Mum had depression… I looked after my younger sibling… I’d come home to check
that Mum hadn’t killed herself and she’d say ‘Oh, I nearly slit my wrists in the
bath today.’ I stopped going to school as I was scared to leave her, school just
discarded me.
• Young people feel that support is not available to them
There’s nothing in your face kinda telling you we’re here to help you, it’s more like
‘when you’re sinking, then kinda wave, wave really hard and we’ll try to spot you
or try to find you’.
• When support is available, young people don’t always find it accessible
She just kept using all these technical terms, I didn’t know what she was there for,
I felt going there I came out more stressed, more depressed, more anxious.

36. 3 X YMHFA COURSES
• 3 courses run in East and West Kent and Medway
commissioned from KSL (Knowledge, Support, Learning CiC).
• Courses hosted by voluntary sector and educational
institutions.
• The courses ensured inclusion of non statutory providers.
• Attendees included – Rethink CDWs, Higher and Further
education staff, Shaw Trust(employment), KCA (drug and
alcohol services), YOS, community projects for BME young
people, Kent safeguarding police, Porchlight (housing and
homeless project), Charlton Athletic Community Trust, Princes
Trust, Platform 51(project for women).

37. HOW PARTICIPANTS WILL USE THEIR NEW
SKILLS AFTER YMHFA
“back up improve the
“Immediately to support provided to the
“To be more ready develop the children, young people
with young people” quality of
“Everyday and adults”
Shaw Trust standards of our
with the Disability coordinator
current service”
young people Platform 51
on my
project” “Will use it on a
Porchlight daily basis”
Sandwich
I will be more aware of what
Technology
symptoms to look for and be
School
able to react immediately”
Caribbean teacher/mentor
“To be more aware and
understand how to help, “It has given me a better
where to signpost understanding on how to
people that need help” help young people”
Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic
Community Trust Community Trust

38. CONFIDENCE TO SUPPORT YP AFTER YMHFA
(evaluation by KSL)
Personal confidence of how to Knowledge and understanding of
support YP with a problem how best to support a YP

39. Royal College of GP YMH
Declaration 2011 - Principles
• Belief in young people and their potential
• Respect for all young people
• Protect young people’s right to participate in processes and decisions that affect
them
• Commitment to uncovering the strengths within young people, their families and
communities
• Respect for the right to recovery and social inclusion for all young people
• Value the importance of personal, social, educational and employment outcomes
• Provide accessible, youth-focused services and supports when and where young
people need them
• Respect for the rights of family and friends to participate and feel fully involved

40. What Next
• Report completion, conclusions and recommendations
• Shift towards greater Public mental health
(social/environmental determinants)
• An orientation towards recovery in local systems and in
services as well as in communities.
• Public health with a much stronger emphasis in primary care
and local authorities.
• Using the vehicle of Health and Wellbeing Boards to enable
commissioning of a service that encourages collaboration
between councils, NHS, vol sector, communities and the
public.
• Promoting the principle of co-production

41. cont
• Develop “asset based” approach (using the strength
assets of young people to design the service)
• Designing a service with wellbeing outcomes in mind
• Using established well being evidence in service
design
• MWIA (tool)
• Build community capacity in a more integrated and
coherent way that is responsive to local need.
• pilot YMH service (evidence based and evaluated)

42. Support should be offered up from the
start, it should be based upon a
relationship with individuals rather than
just as-and-when which may not work for
a lot of people as trust is needed for
disclosure.

44. Youth Mental Health
Summit
Norfolk & Suffolk Youth Mental Health
Pilot
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

45. Youth Mental Health Summit
• A few thoughts:
Existing Services
Youth Mental
Health
• Dilemma when a small, innovative solution is pitted against the
larger, more established solutions.
• Enthusiasm/energy vs pressure in the system, having the capacity
to respond, financial constraints, feeling overwhelmed.

46. • “I can really see the benefits of the
project and fully support the idea but if
I’m honest it’s hard to think about how
this type of work might help create a
better pathway for people in the future
when all I can consider at the moment is
how am I going to manage my work for
tomorrow and the day after that.”

47. What helped services?
• Acceptance that it’s not easy to be
innovative/creative/solution focussed when under stress.
• Importance of whole system thinking.
• Collaboration, communication and consistency.
• Support during service transitions/restructuring.
• Build sustainable coalitions across multiple stakeholders
with different interests and strengths working towards
shared goals
• Mirrors what young people/adults have stated that they
want from services.

48. Success
• We have a “go live” date for youth mental
health hub.
• Developing the mental health pages on the
Yourspace website.
• Working closely with Kate and the Free Your
Mind Campaign.
• Developing relationships with 3rd
sector/voluntary providers – “Young Crawley.”
• “Know your Goals” football project.

49. • Uncomfortable though it may be it’s
sometimes more useful in the long term to
learn from mistakes.

50. Rugby Analogy
• At the beginning of the project focussed too much
on expansive ideas

51. • Sometimes you need to move gradually forward in order to then
expand thinking/opportunities/possibilities as confidence grows.
• Much greater chance of sustainability if there’s balance between
creativity and thoughtful small steps.

52. Youth Mental Health
Summit
Sussex Youth Mental Health Pilot
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

53. Sussex Youth Service Update
Youth Summit Nov 6th 2012
Rick Fraser & Alex Jones
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Kate Moore
Youth Parliament

54. Youth Services
What might this look like?
Collaborations
Collocation
Acceptable, accessible, age appropriate
Specialist staff
Improve transitions and reduce drop-out/loss
Better working with minority groups, offenders, NEETs,
immigrants, LAC

55. Current Health Service System for
Young People
Primary Secondary Tertiary

56. New Horizons

57. A Youth Mental Health Service
REFERRAL YOUTH SERVICE (15-25) DISCHARGE
Accessible
Acceptable/Appropriate
GP, CAMHS, self, family, Awareness
education, 3rd sector, (community) AMHS
CJS, SSD, D&A
Ability (staff) Primary Care
3rd sector
Brief EIP, M&A, PD, ED, DD, D
interventions/IAPT &A
Acute services

58. Youth Mental Health Evidence Base
EI for Psychosis EI for Depression
Early intervention services, cognitive Prevention of depression in at-risk
behavioural therapy and family adolescents. A randomized controlled
intervention in early psychosis: trial. Garber J. et al. JAMA.
systematic review. Bird V., Kuipers E. 2009;301(21):2215-2224EI for BPAD
et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry.
2010 197: 350-356
EI for BPD
EI for Bipolar Disorder EI for Adolescents with Borderline
First-episode mania: a neglected Personality Disorder using Cognitive
priority for early intervention. Conus Analytic Therapy: randomized
P., McGorry P. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. controlled trial. Chanen A., McGorry
2002 Apr;36(2):158-72. P. et al. The British Journal of
Psychiatry, 2008;193: 477-484.

61. Sussex Update
2010 – youth strategy group
2011 – project grant from South Coast SHA
2012
– Project manager appointed
• Scoping exercise
• Partnerships developed
• Model developed
• Evaluation – grant application (RF/KG)
• ‘Go Live’ – November

62. Project Manager’s update

63. Model
Access and transition service
‘One stop shop’
Screening tool
Youth assessment tool
CAMHS, AMHS & EIS for health component
Connexions (Targeted Youth Support Service)
Other collaborators – YMCA, West Sussex CC, YP SMS,
Crawley College

64. Training
Training package developed
Evaluation
Goals – hybrid clinicians working confidently across age range
Up-skilling by proximity

65. Promotion
Website – ‘yourspace’
Raising awareness
Primary Care & beyond
Youth platform

66. Next
Crawley Town FC
MHFA
Other sites
Larger study

68. Who is involved?
D/MYP's
Youth Councils
Youth Cabinets
Other projects
MP's
Other organisations
Mental health organisations
The list goes on...

69. Aims
Two main aims:
To help break down the taboos surrounding mental health.
We want to create a place for young people to ‘Free Their
Minds’

70. Its now all about promoting and
getting work done now!
We are really easy to contact if you want to get involved/contac t us for any other
reason;
Email:
Twitter: @FreeYourMindUK
Facebook:

71. IYMHA 2nd Conference 2013

72. Brighton 23-26 Sept 2013

73. Challenges
Fears
• Service ‘overwhelmed’
• Diverting already scarce resources
• Risk management
Raising awareness
Governance issues
Developing other ‘portals’
Maintaining momentum – Alex Jones back to UHS Dec 2012
Developing new service at time of financial austerity

74. In Summary
Clear need for better services for young people
Collaborative approach
Local approach
Involve young people
Get started somewhere
Evaluate
Maintain the momentum

75. Thank You

76. Youth Mental Health Summit
Knowledge Support Learning (KSL)
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

77. Presentation
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78. About KSL…
Social enterprise well-connected with UK
Health, Social Care and Wellbeing services
Knowledge
Creative events
management and
young people’s Support
celebrations Specialist project
management to
help welfare Learning
services achieve Courses and
their goals workshops to help
people provide
support to adults
and young people
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79. KSL as Intermediary
Festival Charities &
Organisers Commercial Sponsors
Mental Health Mental Health
& Wellbeing & Wellbeing
Information Research
Festival-Goers
Mental Health
& Wellbeing
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80. KSL Heads-Up Tent
• A mental health hotspot that pops up at mainstream arts and music festivals
• Through conducting a short and structured survey with young people, aged 12-25, we aim to find out
which mental health support and services this age group needs and wants
• In July 2012 with the CSR support of Live Nation UK, KSL took the Heads-Up Tent to Wireless
Festival, Hyde Park, London
• As an illustration of the event and our engagement approach with young people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUqC_Ao0Hk B2B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXs5_DBF8WIB2C
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81. Our Supporters
UK organic fruit Charity that sponsored Festival host organiser
producer that supplied a Heads-Up Card that provided the tent
us with unique fruit and passes
juices
London fruiterer that provided Training provider and
us with a variety of fresh and Heads-Up Tent
tasty fruit contributor and Card
sponsor
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82. Heads-Up Cards
 600 young people visited the tent and they were each given a pack of cards
 Packs provided information about our project, our sponsors and common mental health issues
 The cards gave young people web links with QR codes for more information
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83. Survey Results
 377 surveys were fully completed
 The majority of our visitors came from London and the South East
 77% of our visitors were White British, 23% were Black, Asian or Mixed
 Most of our participants were students/pupils or in full-time employment
 The following data is based on the 377 completed surveys
 Our goal is to make youth mental health support services attractive
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84. Survey Results
Age Group
13-15 16-18 19-25 over 25 under 12
0%
5%
11%
31%
53%
There were more female participants 81% of participants were under the age of 25
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85. Survey Results
Employment status of survey participants
Student/pupil full-time
2%
1%
11% Employed full-time
4%
Any other
49% Employed part-time
Unwaged/not seeking work
33%
Registered unemployed/job
seeker
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86. Survey Results
Mental health problems experienced directly
and indirectly by survey participants
250
200
211
202 205
185 196
150
155
139 150
100
73
50 67
31 29 26 9
0
Stress Depression Drugs & alcohol Suicide Self-harm Eating disorders Psychosis
Self Others
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87. Survey Results
Where the service should be located by age group
80 75
 13-15 prefer walk-in centre location
67
70 65
 16-19 prefer college location
60
 19-25 prefer education location
50
38
40 35 35 36
33
30 26
20
20 14
13 12
10
7
10 5 4 3
0
School/college/university Walk-in young people's Primary care centre/GP Youth club/community Hospital clinic Adult community mental
counseling support centre surgery centre health team or child and
adolescent mental health
service
13-15 16-19 19-25
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88. Survey Results
350
Who to ask when mental health help is needed
300
314
250
General results show that
200 236 people prefer to find help from
their friends and relatives
150
157
100 114
50
67
0
41 37 35
0
Friend or Parent or Family GP Partner or Specialist Telephone Teacher or Another GP Support
colleague carer spouse professional advice line lecturer worker
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89. Survey Results
How services could work best 300
250
258
The most popular 200
feature by far was “no
150
appointment needed” 159
151
136
100
94
68 50
60
29 34
0
On the record Internet café Using self- Meet/join Can make Open at Open evenings Talking 1:1 in Walk-in/no
conversations for area assessment informal groups appointments in weekends/bank until about 9pm private appointment
a young person's forms advance holidays needed
primary care NHS
notes
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90. Survey Results
What Other Centre Services Needed by age group
90
90
78
80 70
67
70 62
60 51
47
50 44 13-15
40
16-18
30
20 13 13 11 19-25
5
10
0
90 51 78 70
Advice on drug and alcohol Sexual health advice and GP and/or other primary Education and
use information health care employment advice
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91. Survey Summary
 Our results indicate that most young people would like to see their mental health services located
in education settings or at a walk-in support centre
 Most young people prefer to seek help from family and friends about mental health issues
 If young people wish to access a service most by far would like to turn up without an
appointment, including evenings and weekends where they can engage privately on a 1:1 basis
 An „under one roof‟ service where mental health services are co-located with others, including
GP, is important to young people
 60% of our sample aged 13 to 25 would like to attend a short mental health awareness course if
they had the opportunity
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92. Thank you
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93. Youth Mental Health
Summit
Right Here Project
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

94. Right Here Brighton and Hove
• Who we are:
– Lily Blackmore – Campaigns Volunteer
– Rebecca Morley-Wilson – Campaigns
Volunteer
– Mark Cull – Project Manager
– Rose Allett – Campaigns Coordinator
– Rob Trounce – Digital Media Officer

95. Right Here initiative
• 5 year pilot
• Funded and managed by MHF and PHF
• National Programme
• Brighton &
Hove, Fermanagh, Sheffield, Newham
• Evaluated by the Tavistock Institute

96. Right Here Brighton & Hove
• Sussex Central YMCA and Mind in
Brighton & Hove
• Resilience building activities
• Campaigns and health promotion
• Peer-led research
• Fast track counselling

97. Our work with GPs –
1. GP research
• GP research – Young people‟s views and experiences of GP services in
relationship to emotional and mental health
• Ask yourself:
 Do your clients (aged 16-25) understand what confidentiality means within your
service?
 Do your clients have a choice of gender specific practitioners allocated to their
care?
 Are young people who have been referred by a GP given enough information
about your service before their first appointment with you?
 Is your service available at times which suit young people and their lifestyles?
 Are young people equal participants in decisions made about their care within
your service?
 How knowledgeable are you about other services within your area that can help
young people accessing your service?
 In the context of your service and your relationships with your clients, how
empowered are the young people you support?

98. Our work with GPs –
2. Assessment visits
• Good practice guide
• GP practice visits
• Sample questions:
– How aware are your staff of young people‟s
issues?
– Are confidentiality policies clearly displayed and
explained?
– Is there information about young people‟s rights
available on the website or in the surgery?

99. Our work with GPs – 3. How Can I

100. Innovation labs
• Brainstorming and developing digital
products to benefit young people‟s
mental health and wellbeing
• Right Here‟s involvement:
– Doc Ready
– My Places

101. Doc Ready
• An application and/or website geared
towards preparing a young person to
visit their GP
• Currently in the design phase
• Will be developed over the next year

102. Doc Ready case study
• Scenario

103. Case study - paired discussion
• If you were using Doc Ready, what
functions / features would be helpful to
you with preparing this young person
to go to their GP?
• Please write answers on the provided
Post-it notes
• Some of your feedback…

104. WTGF and My Places

105. Screenshots of the website (3 or 4)
(particularly mental health pages)

109. Questions or comments?
• Come and talk to us in the coffee break
if you have questions about Doc
Ready, Right Here creating a Where To
Go For website in your locality, Right
Here‟s work, or anything else!
• Thanks for listening and taking part.

110. Youth Mental Health
Summit
Voice Collective
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

111. +
Voice
Collective
www.voicecollective.co.uk
Supporting Children & Young
People Who Hear Voices:
Claire Powell – Mind in Camden

112. +
About Voice Collective
 Mindin Camden‟s London-wide
project, supporting children & young people
who hear voices
 Direct Services
 Capacity Building
 Independent Evaluation (CAMHS Evidence Based
Practice Unit)
 Funded by BBC Children In Need, Comic Relief &
City Bridge Trust
 Part of a larger „London Hearing Voices Project‟

113. +
So, what do we offer?
 Responsive – Flexible - Connected
 Peer support  For workers
Voice Collective Group
 Training &

 Creative Arts Workshops
Awareness
 Website
 Young people
 Online Forum
 Schools
 Support workshops for
 Youth organisations
parents
 Specialist mental health
 1-2-1 support teams
 For young people
 For parents

114. +
A Multisensory Experience

115. +
The Impact

116. +
What does Voice Collective do?

117. +
4 aspects to coping
Calm/Safety Block
Express Empower

118. +
Safety First
Do-In Massage

119. +
Safety
 “10 things I can do”
 Grounding strategies
(“5 things I can see,
hear & touch”, a
grounding bag using
all of the senses)
 Breathing and
relaxation
 Creating safe spaces
 Safe objects

120. +
Distraction
 Distraction
 Music (creating a playlist)
 Xbox / Computers / Sudoku /
Puzzles
 Football, physical activities
 Anything that helps occupy the
mind
 Concurrent verbalization (singing
or reading aloud)
 Earplugs (in one or both ears)
 Being around others

121. +
Expressing yourself
 Shadow boxing
 Worry box
 Creative writing
(e.g. super heroes)
 Drawing and
artwork
(e.g. voice
morphing)
 Model making

122. +
Taking the power back
 Saying „No‟ or „Not
Yet‟
 Setting limits
 Challenging the voices
 Becoming an
interpreter
 Treatingthe voices
with kindness

123. +
Finding a voice and peer support
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB9_Zy0I3VU

124. +
Contact Us:
Claire Powell & Yan Weaver (Development Workers)
Rachel Waddingham (project manager)
Voice Collective, Mind in Camden
Crossfields Centre, 8 Fairhazel Gardens,
London, NW6 3SG
Tel: 020 7625 9042 | Email: info@voicecollective.co.uk
Web: www.voicecollective.co.uk
www.facebook.com/voicecollective
www.twitter.com/voicecollective
www.voicecollective.tumblr.com

125. Youth Mental Health
Summit
Dedicated Youth Mental Health
Services:
The Human & Economic Case
#YMHN
Tuesday 6th November 2012

126. Its Up to Us
Lets Improve Youth Mental Health