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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.

As the CAMHS redesign progresses we are starting to arrange panels to evaluate the proposed changes as a result of the redesign. We are in early stages of planning but want to share the opportunity for people to be involved. We are keen for children and young people to evaluate the proposed changes and have their say, so any child or young person can get involved, whether they have used CAMHS services or not. We will also be recruiting for panel members on the carers and family members’ panel as well as third sector and faith members.

This service is a joint initiative between Lancashire County Council and Lancaster University, funded by LCC Public Health to provide training and support to Lancashire schools around children’s mental health issues. Bookings and delivery co-ordination of this training is being managed by PAC, and our schools champion partner is Thomas Whitham Sixth Form, Burnley. For more, please visit https://www.p-a-c.org.uk/training/lancashire-emotional-health-support-in-schools/

Join us and be part of redesigning our NHS funded emotional health and wellbeing services for children and young people in Lancashire and South Cumbria. The Care Partnership of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, voluntary and community organisations and commissioners are working collaboratively to implement THRIVE for children and adolescents age 0 to 19 years. We are actively seeking the participation and views of representatives of our partners, non-NHS providers and stakeholders in the following full week modelling sessions and for further information, please email lucy.atkinson8@nhs.net or visit healthyyoungmindslsc.co.uk/camhs-redesign.

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Digital Healthy Schools is being launched across Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen