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Young people with mental health problems: A toolkit (934KB)
The Mental Health Foundation is supporting the dissemination of this toolkit produced by the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust. It is written for generalist practitioners who are not mental health specialists, working in universal services.
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Listen Up! Report (2.03MB)
Listen Up! makes the case for fundamental change in the basic service model for young people. It calls on commissioners to designate a lead agency and person to co-ordinate the commissioning of services for young people aged 16-25.
The report is primarily aimed at those who commission and fund services for children and young people, as well as those working within the voluntary and community sectors and statutory sector who are setting up or developing services for young people with mental health and emotional problems.
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Truth about Self Harm (230KB)
The booklet is for anyone who wants to understand self-harm among young people - why it happens, how to deal with it, and how to recover from what can be become a very destructive cycle.
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Truth Hurts (440KB)
The final report of the National Inquiry into self-harm among young people. The Inquiry intends that the report should serve as a turning point in understanding self-harm and be a launch pad for changes in the prevention of, and responses to, self-harm among young people in the UK.
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Backing the Future: Why investing in children is good for us all
Backing the Future provides the economic and social case for transforming the way we invest in the future of society through our children. The report makes clear the need for a comprehensive investment programme in preventative services for children and young people that would both save spending on dealing with the impact of problems later, and deliver wider benefits to society.
This report can be purchased or downloaded from NEF’s website.
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A Generation Under Stress?
A report by Girlguiding UK and the Mental Health Foundation.
This report reveals a generation of girls and young women who are managing a complex spectrum of feelings and emotions everyday. It shows the importance of creating space, among supportive friends, for difficult issues to be explored and girls to be reassured that their feelings are ‘normal’ – and others feel as they do.
This report can be downloaded from the Mental Health Foundation's website.
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Today
The mental health of children and young people is of increasing concern to us all. This handbook introduces the subject to the wide array of frontline workers in health, education and social services who have regular contact with children and young people, and need some knowledge of the mental health issues that affect them, and the services available.
Order this report from the Pavillion website.
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Heads Up: Mental Health of Children and Young People
Mental health problems don’t just affect adults. Over one million children and young people in the UK suffer from disorders that make it hard for them to cope with every day life: to learn, make friends or deal with stressful situations. Three out of four of these are not receiving adequate treatment and so are more likely to grow into adults with ongoing mental health problems.
NPC's report, Heads up, explores how charities are helping young people recover from mental health problems.
Download from NPC's website.
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A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age
This inquiry report, by the Children's Society, A Good Childhood, says excessive individualism is causing a range of problems for children including: high family break-up, teenage unkindness, commercial pressures towards premature sexualisation, unprincipled advertising, too much competition in education and acceptance of income inequality.
The report says that although freedom and self-determination bring many blessings, the balance has tilted too far towards individualism in Britain.
Purchase from the Children's Society website.
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Young People in Governance Report
This report by nfgSynergy documents how much young people contribute to charities and not-for-profit organisations.
Download the report from the nfgSynergy website.
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The Role of Local Government in Promoting Wellbeing
Written by the New Economics Foundation, this report examines how local government can support a better life for its citizens to help build resilient communities, both now and in the long term.
This report is available to download from the Local Government Improvement and Development website.
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