How many times do technical organizations get the opportunity to try? In raw materials, we were one of 24 new union in southern London, and exploring innovative new methods to support youth mental health-financing through a bold program from the South London-based MAUDSLEY charitable program: Build a brighter future.
As a firm pleasure in mental health, the Maudsley Charitable Foundation follows a strategic approach to the widespread mental health crisis. Last year, they led an accurate operation to unify professionals, health and social descriptive institutions from NHS and volunteer sectors. They facilitated meetings to discuss the best way to work together to reach and support the most needy people.
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As a social recommendation organization, raw materials have long worked in this field, but this was the first invitation to sit at a table with health care colleagues. We were hoping to learn more about how NHS worked in the mental health of young people.
From this meeting, we contacted the professional health services professionals for children and adolescents (CAMHS), theater practitioner and cultural producer Tony Celly-a long-standing defender of creative health. Those who have a great respect for his work in the legislative theater and joint with societies.
Together, we have formed a small union with two teams of adventures: NHS Epec (empowering parents, enabling societies) and NHS Discover. EPEC works directly with parents, using an authentic peer -led model, which includes groups led by parents with live experience. NHS Discover consists of clinical psychologists who provide guarantees for young people in schools.
With King’s College London as a research partner in London Art and Health on board to support strategic planning and bid writing, we collectively explore a mixture of our services.
Alternative options
Cooperation combines our joint experience in working with young people and their families to explore all methods of “traditional” and creative mental health, which focuses on southern London. Most families are of various societies, which they feel disappointed by health care services in which systematic racism and inequality are in the institutional point of view.
We are committed to providing comprehensive and attractive alternative and attractive options, and we naming the program to reflect our ambition: Creative societies, creation of change. Using what we learned during the first stage of concentration and discussions groups, we aim to develop and include a program to be delivered jointly at the newly renewed raw material center in Brexstone.
There was a major moment in this development stage of the program four joint production sessions that include young people between the ages of 11 and 19 and their parents-together and separately. The sessions with creative practitioners were led us by Suleiman Adams, Jis Molly and James Yardi.
Over the course of the sessions, we worked with 50 people across generations, using Mentimeter for Focus Group questions besides experiences in possible future sessions – including theater, music production, open music improvisation and group treatments/discussion and participation of the group, led by NHS Discover and EPEC.
We interrogated a set of topics of deeper questions – like Current support systems, confrontation strategies when they are not fine, access to creative groups, mental health pressure, and creative activities that enhance communication – To more than practical types – such as how and when people may want to reach activities and those who want to see them as they hand them over.
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Photo: Jezima Hirepec
What do young people really want
What was noticeable (maybe not surprising) is the amount of participation and cooperation that the groups were after participating in the creative side of the session. There was a clearly different feeling in the room, as many people actively participate in sharing their opinions and visions, which indicates the strength of creativity at work.
The overall results, which will be relied upon in long-term planning, revealed what young people and their families really want in mental health services-the summary here:
- Access to artistic health support for both parents and youth.
- Organized programs that focus on self -care, communication and behavior management.
- Regular creative workshops in a variety of settings – societal and health spaces, and online, with the most popular societal/neutral spaces.
- Low barriers that prevent mental health support by improving access and reducing shame.
- Incentives such as expenses/vouchers to encourage long -term participation.
- The extension of creative mental health programs, especially music and art activities.
- Improving access to mental health services by treating long waiting times.
- Implementing the youth -led youth to increase participation (young people wanted to learn from the models of youth roles and other work).
- Flexible and flexible participation opportunities.
In general, the results supported our assumption that there is a better and more collaborative way to support the mental health of young people than what is currently offered.
For these young people and their most needy families, we want to offer the widest possible set of options. They have not been served well by the current institutions or services yet, so we hope our long -term program will develop the skills of people as “creative engineers” of their lives, who are able to design their recovery, and in the end they create a positive change for themselves and their societies.