Workshop 2: The environment for CYP mental health services

Sarah Brennan, Chief Executive, YoungMinds Lisa Williams, Consultant and member of the BOND Consortium Elaine Willis, VCO lead associate, FPM Bhupinder Bhoday, Mental Health Team Lead, DfE

Introduced the BOND project, and the Tees Valley Pilot Made the case for CYP’s mental health Explored – what do we mean by local ‘system’ and where you fit in Began to identify some issues and areas of interest from the various perspectives Consulted you on the suggested pilot programme Reminder BOND Pilot E- learning environment

Intervening early has been shown to achieve improved outcomes; increased learning and educational attainment, better physical health, improved long term mental health reduced health and social care costs. Voluntary and community organisations have an important role to play in providing effective, high quality early intervention services as they are local, flexible, trusted, informal and friendly.

Build on relationships and understanding between VCSOs and commissioners through a shared process of learning, support and challenge Help you to develop service quality, value for money and evidence based early intervention mental health services for CYP&F Bring national expertise and information Learn from you and share with others Identify and respond to capacity building needs

Presentations and discussion to help us develop; a shared understanding of language evidence based interventions current policy and funding environment explore the implications of environment and our responses to the challenges and opportunities share information about participating VCS organisations and commissioner perspectives

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