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Welcome to the CYP IAPT Midlands Collaborative

The Children and Young Person’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme aims to transform the way existing services provide mental health support to children and young people. Supported by an additional 1,700 therapeutic staff nationally, by 2020 the intention is to create a culture of full collaboration between services and families. The programme began in 2011 and is working to achieve 100% coverage of the 0-19 population by 2018.

The key tenets of the CYP IAPT programme are:

  • The use of regular feedback and routine outcome measures to guide therapy in the room and better understand the impact of interventions
  • Improving user participation in treatment, service design and delivery
  • Improving access to evidence-based therapies through new training programmes that are NICE approved and best evidence-based

CYP IAPT is not about creating new standalone services. It is about embedding the above principles and transforming existing services providing mental health care to children and young people.

NHS England (NHSE) and Health Education England (HEE) are overseeing the roll out of CYP IAPT. Local delivery of the programme is being managed and guided through regional collaboratives established to support and guide local CAMHS partnerships as they develop and introduce new arrangements and service transformation.

Training is delivered by the University of Derby, the University of Northampton and Associate Development Solutions

Collaboartive partners include: South Derbyshire; North Derbyshire; Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire; Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland; South Staffordshire; Dudley: Sandwell; Solihull; Walsall; Wolverhampton; Shropshire

The CYP IAPT Midlands Collaborative is delivered by Associate Development Solutions, The University of Northampton and The University of Derby

GOOD NEWS

Research, Innovation and Education Award- Lincolnshire Health Awards
CAMHS Peer Support Workers

Lincolnshire child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) peer support workers won this award. Abbie Futter (CAMHS Peer Support & Involvement Lead) is a social worker that specialised in working therapeutically with looked after children before she led the peer support workers project which began in December 2017. The peer support workers provide emotional support and practical assistance to young people currently accessing CAMHS. Through sharing their own experience and own recovery story, they help young people discover their own strengths and feel hopeful about the future. They also provide support when a young person is transitioning to adult mental health services. In addition they actively promote and raise mental health awareness by talking at school assemblies and in youth groups. Alongside Abbie, they also help promote and facilitate young person involvement and participation within the CAMHS service.

Due to the success of the project, funding was agreed in July 2018 and the scheme is now a permanent part of children’s mental health service in Lincolnshire.

Becky (Peer Support Worker) said: “We’re happy to have won. This role really shows young people that hope and recovery is possible.”

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