Transcript CYP IAPT, MindEd and other opportunities to promote the

CYP IAPT, MindEd and other
opportunities to promote the mental
health of young people leaving care
Dr Cathy Street, National Children’s Bureau (NCB)
Research Centre
March 4th 2014
Overview
A brief overview of three current programmes that aim to
promote children and young people’s mental health:
 Children and Young People’s Improving Access to
Psychological Therapies – CYP IAPT
 Minded – new e-learning portal
 GP Champions - a pilot project supported by Youth Access
and the Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH)
Why it’s important to think about the
mental health of care leavers?
 An important life transition – and often one where young
people experience difficulties accessing services
 Well documented that children and young people in care
show higher rates of mental health problems than other
children and young people
 Study by Ford et al (2007) reported that 45.3% of 5-17 year
olds looked after by local authorities had some form of
psychiatric disorder; similar figures noted in the CAMHS
National Review (DH and DCSF 2008)
CYP IAPT
 National programme - originally run by Department of Health
and now NHS England
 Aims to transform Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Services (CAMHS) – in particular, to improve access to
psychological therapies
 Policy context – the focus on evidence-based practice,
outcomes monitoring, patient choice and participation
 Now in year 3 with aim to cover 60% of all CAMHS
 Builds on existing services – does not create new standalone
IAPT services (so unlike adult IAPT)
How CYP IAPT works
 5 geographical locations or “Learning Collaboratives”: North
East, Yorkshire and Humber; South West; London and the
South East; Oxford & Reading and the North West – Salford,
Manchester, North and Central Lancashire
 Each learning collaborative has 1-2 Higher Education
Institutions (HEIs) who provide a range of 1 year training
courses – in CBT, parenting, Systemic Family Therapy (SFT),
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), leadership and supervision
 Each collaborative is made up of CYP IAPT partnerships who
link to the HEI – groups of services including CAMHS teams,
LAs, voluntary sector services (e.g. counselling services)
A focus on evidence based practice
 Offers training with ‘backfill’ for staff released to go on either
a trainee, supervisor or managers course
 Infrastructure support for IT (since outcomes are monitored
on a session by session basis), children and young people’s
participation and accreditation
 Idea is that trainees cascade out the learning, thereby
supporting change across services/whole staff groups
 Sharing of learning and expertise promoted across
partnerships and collaboratives, with variety of national
groups underpinning this (e.g. national curriculum group)
How young people leaving care might
benefit?
 More accessible services, with more active involvement of
young people and emphasis on ‘listening to young people’
 Young people share their views nationally about what they
think the priorities for CAMHS should be… and these have
included improving transitions/supporting young people
when they leave services
 Continued opportunities for young people to get involved to
support service development
 Self-referral also being promoted through CYP IAPT… less
hoops to jump through to get help when needed
MindED
 A new e-portal providing an extensive array of e-learning
sessions about children and young people’s mental health and
emotional wellbeing
 Funding from the Department of Health/NHS England, with
development support via the Royal College of Paediatrics and
Child Health (RCPCH) and e-LfH (e-learning for health)
 Portal launches this month, on Tuesday 25th March
Portal structure
Counselling
MindEd
MindEd Core
Content
MindEd CYP
IAPT Curriculum
Healthy Child
Programme
MindEd etherapies and
evidence review
What the e-learning sessions cover
 Portal will offer over 200 e-learning sessions (designed to take
about 30 minutes to complete)
 Written for both universal and specialist audiences
 Wide range of topics including: children and young people’s
rights; relevant legislation; participation; mental health
problems and treatment approaches; outcomes monitoring;
understanding child development; different treatment
approaches and ways of working
 Will provide links to other learning materials – reports, useful
websites, organisations etc
GP Champions
 Pilot project running in 10 areas of England that aims to
transform the way that public services are delivered to young
people aged 11-18 years
 Collaboration between GPs and voluntary youth services
including shared learning sets
 Draws on the evidence of young people’s preferred access
routes
 Development of new models – e.g. GP surgery sessions in
youth counselling services; new models of outreach support
 Aims to influence local commissioning and planning of
services
How young people leaving care might
benefit
 Improved local offer of services
 Raised GP awareness and understanding of young people’s
needs
 Service planning that is better attuned to young people’s
concerns, informed by their active participation
More information
 For CYP IAPT, www.myapt.org.uk provides resources and
information to support practitioners, discussion forums and
dedicated section for young people. Register via the site for
regular e-bulletins and event information
 Information about MindEd is available from
www.rcpch.ac.uk/minded
 For GP Champions, go to www.youthaccess.org.uk and
www.youngpeopleshealth.org.uk