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Creative workshops were facilitated by lead clinicians for tier 3 and tier 4 services alongside a creative agency to identify what information should be included on the website and how this should be disseminated. Resourcesįrom the onset we wanted to include children, young people, parents, carers and staff in the website development. The website was launched on World Mental Health day 2011. The resulting artworks provided unique insights, rich in meaning, that have shaped the website’s structure, content, voice and design.

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The change introduced and how this was doneĬWP CAMHS with the help of a creative agency brought young people together in focus groups to share ideas, which took the form of graffiti walls, full of metaphors and symbolism. Engagement took place at tiers 2, 3, and 4, which meant that the views young people accessing all aspects of CWP CAMHS were included in the development of this provision. The workshops focused upon developing service users deeper understanding of their own experiences of CAMHS, as well as their aspirations for its’ future. BackgroundĬhildren and young people from across the CWP area came together to share and anchor their thoughts and feelings about how best to create an all-new online presence. There are also sections aimed at parents and carers and professionals. The initiative is to provide children and young people who may be experiencing emotional / psychological / mental health difficulties either due to something happening from within or as a result of what is going on around them – with appropriate information about the difficulties they may be experiencing, what CAMHS is all about and self-help pages in the form of downloadable PDF’s and podcasts. We enlisted the help of a Graphic Facilitation company called Deadcatdreaming and they assisted us with a great piece of consultation work with some of our service users to bring the Mymind site to life.You can read more about the consultation work in our Headstrong report. The process really began with a project team which was led by one of our service co-ordinators (team leaders).

Mymind is a website and twitter feed developed by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, to provide children and young people with information about mental health problems. Lesley Dougan, Mymind Chief Operating OfficerĠ151 514 Development Centre, St Catherine’s Health Centre, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH42 0LQ

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