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Follow on from our last article on Avoiding Admissions.

UDevelop launch a new scheme.

A member of staff in Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) recently came second in a prestigious national award ceremony for her work on helping young people with mental health issues

A blueprint to beef up mental health services for children and young people has been launched.

Listening to young people and acting on their ideas has earned CancerCare North Lancashire and South Cumbria a special award. The charity has won an ‘Investing in Children’ award for its pioneering work with young people. Young people who are part of CancerCare’s ‘Refresh’ youth project met with Eleanor Seed from Investing in Children (IiC). Eleanor, a project manager with IiC, was so impressed with the work that the young people and CancerCare had done that she gave the charity the Investing in Children award that same day.

The Digital Pioneers Scheme with Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria Partnership has begun. This will involve a feasibility study into the development of a self-care app/digital platform for men aged 18-25 years.

We are delighted that delivery has now commenced for the Together Workshops across Lancashire and South Cumbria. Co-produced with families across the Integrated Care System (ICS), successful workshops have been delivered by The Birchwood Centre in West Lancashire and Walney Community Trust in Barrow-in-Furness. 22 people attended, supporting a number of young people to manage their daily mental health challenges.

NHS funded providers of young people’s emotional health and wellbeing services across Lancashire and South Cumbria are continuing to work together to redesign services for children and adolescents aged 0-19 in line with the THRIVE conceptual model, and in response to a commissioning mandate to develop sustainable and standardised care.

33 front line practitioners have now been trained as AMBIT instructors across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The five day instructor training was provided by the Anna Freud Centre and every practitioner trained has committed to provide four training sessions for other frontline staff during the year.