Manchester Mind is proud to launch My Foundation – an independent evaluation

Over the last three years, we have been increasing organisational connections in order to improve mental health among young people in Manchester. This has included working more closely with schools and education providers, statutory health services, specialist charities and with young people themselves, as agents of their own recovery.

Young people have been involved in the development and delivery of this new approach. This has resulted in increasing staff capacity at Manchester Mind’s services for young people (YASP) and has promoted recovery and resilience in all areas of work at the organisation.

This is a chance for you to find out more about this way of working, to hear about interesting ideas that you are welcome to use, to learn more about opportunities to link up across multiple sectors and to find out about the outcomes achieved.

Who is this conference for?

This conference is for people who work in mental health, who work with groups of people at higher risk of developing mental health problems and those who work with young people.

The session will focus on the foundations of good service delivery, with an emphasis on the preferences and experiences of experts by experience. Speakers will talk about improving equalities, linking up with educational providers, the impact of peer support and lessons emerging from Manchester Mind’s recent evaluation of working with young people.

The conference will provide examples of frontline work, in addition to idea sharing around service design and user involvement, which can be borrowed and applied more widely, across specialist and general support services.

The afternoon will involve:

• Keynote speakers

• Presentations from professional experts and experts by experience

• Ideas and key learnings you can apply to your work

• Workshops on applying learning:

- Multi-stranded service and how it complements a therapeutic intervention and vice versa

- Applying autism-friendly approaches and how this has an exponential impact.

• A focus on diversity and improving access

• A panel discussion

Speakers

• Event Chair: Rana Hassan – Manchester Mind Volunteer and NHS Ambassador

• Sarah Forster - Independent consultant

• James Moorhouse – Manchester Mind Volunteer Mentor

• Sarah-Jane Nii-Adjei – Mind Equalities Worker

• Kevin Buchanan - Director of Children and Families Inclusion Services, Newall Green High School, Manchester

• Panel discussion Chair: Mike Wild - Chief Executive, Macc

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