Supporting MDT clinical teams working with CYP living with complexity and presenting with disordered or restrictive eating in acute settings and mental health inpatient beds, to improve quality of care, reduce the need for restrictive practice and support clinical teams in decision making

Experts from across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, including young people, developed a regional training package to improve the awareness and knowledge of all staff who encounter young people in their role, so that they better understand their needs and can support them.

The HEEADSSS app is a psychosocial screening tool (Home, Education/Employment, Eating, Drugs, Sex, Suicide prevention, Safety) and links
questions (co-designed with YP) to local and regional resources that are uploaded to a linked content management server.

A training programme involving the whole multidisciplinary team to ensure all staff are confident in how to approach young people with mental health concerns and how to support them.

Open access clinics for families & young people managed together with transition into adult services, run by paediatric &
adult doctors with an open door policy. Staff are trained to be responsive and
engaged in young people’s care.

Developed and delivered in collaboration
with a group of young advisors, the project is bringing together local young people and people working in statutory and community services in North East London to explore how young people’s participation can lead to more responsive, inclusive and sustainable health and wellbeing services.

The AEGIS Project aims to improve outcomes for children and young people seeking asylum and refugees (CYPSAR) in the UK, who face multiple barriers to health, education, and wellbeing by co-producing evidence and interventions with CYPSAR and other marginalised young people, ensuring their voices are
central throughout. 

The Thrive young person service runs
across GP practices in Hertfordshire. They provide a holistic assessment by up-skilled GPs who have links to community services and third sector groups to help
support young people’s needs. 

Voice Collective supports young people who have highly stigmatised experiences often referred to as ‘hallucinations’ or ‘delusions’. The project works in a non-pathologising, person-centred way to encourage a range of support mechanisms to cope with distress, and to give young people agency in making sense of their experiences on their own terms.

A drug & alcohol support service that takes a trauma informed approach to improve outcomes for young people. The team includes CBT workers, MH wellbeing practitioners and child wellbeing practitioners.