INNOVATION

Key aspects of youth mental health innovation include:

• Creating innovative service models to promote positive mental health.
• Working with Action for Children – early intervention and prevention for substance misuse problems.
• Working with Birribi – supporting residential and outreach support for children with complex needs and learning disabilities.
• Delivering effective mental health support and working with children’s residential care services to identify and treat key determinants of mental health problems
• Supporting the needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) and ensuring they are placed in suitable environments
• Identifying children who may be at risk of going into care and working with families to support them