The Youth Mental Health Network (YMHN) is driven and made up of a range of individuals and groups that are passionate about improving the mental health of young people, regardless of their background. The Youth Mental Health Network's vision is to improve the provision of youth mental health services by harnessing and fostering commitment to evidence based youth mental health services, in their various forms.

1. Working together to Improve the Mental Health
of Young People

2. Disease Burden across Age

3. The Youth Mental Health Network is led by
young people, families, researchers, clinicians
& strategists in support for evidence based
service provision for children and young
people’s mental health and wellbeing.

4. We need to challenge &
support services to deliver
better services for young
people...
Dr Katrina Lake
Dr Rick Fraser
We need to connect &
mobilize grassroots & strategic
networks to commit to youth
mental health…

5. Not top-down.
Group driven.

6. Mental
Health
Health care
Social care
Housing
Education
Criminal justice
NHS
Local
Authority
DfE
MoJ
Benefits
Employment
DWP
Firms
Third sector
Income
CVOs
AllMortality
Individual
Genes
Family
Income
Employment
Resilience
Trauma
Physical Env
Events
Chance
Each of these links is evidence-based

7. Economic Evaluation
Of Services for 14-25 Year
Olds

8. Birmingham - YouthSpace
Surrey’s Mindful ServicePlymouth –The Zone
Sussex YMH Pilot
CYP Health Needs
Assessment Tool
Ireland– Get on Board
Kent YMH Pilot
Norfolk & Suffolk YMH Pilot
The National Picture – Just some of the Developments in YMH

10. Youth Mental Health Network On Twitter
@Time4Recovery

12. Outcomes 2012 -2013
• A young persons mental health & wellbeing Survey to elicit views on their
needs & aspirations in Kent;
• Young people now training clinicians, managers across CYPS mental health
workforce in Surrey;
• Young people trained to be CAMHS Youth Advisors in apprenticeship roles;
• Economic Evaluation by London School of Economics to determine
economic impact of youth mental health;
• Five youth mental health workshops/conferences a attended by 300
attendants from Surrey, Sussex & Kent;
• Developed ‘My Journey’ Youth Mental Health Mobile App;

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/diloz/5023417436
MY Journey
Mobile App

14.  Appropriate and
accessible services
 To be valued
 Not to be judged or
stigmatised
 Recognition of what they
want and need
 Involvement
 Choice
 Simple care pathways
“No decision about me without me”
What do children & young people tell us that they want?

15. Sharing videos about
youth mental health.

19. Young Person
FAMILY
SCHOOL
PROVIDER
FUNDINGNEED
COMMISSIONING
Connecting the Dots

20. Thank you

21. 1. How is your organization currently engaging children and young people in
service improvement?
2. To what degree are these initiatives designed with the aim of improving the
experience of young people?
3. To what degree is the service designed to improve clinical outcomes for
young people?
4. What would be helpful, in your view, in terms of local and national-level
activity to support providers of mental health services to improve youth
mental health?