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Since 2014, HeadStart has been working in collaboration with children and young people
and various partner organisations in Blackpool to develop a programme of activities
and action to create a cultural shift in support of building resilience in young people and
Blackpool as a community. By taking a proportionate universalism approach, they aim
to maximise the potential to achieve outcomes through supporting the whole cohort
towards resilience. Activities undertaken include workforce development, professionals in
various fields being trained in the HeadStart concept of resilience, provision of the online
counselling service KOOTH, “Saddle Up” - a project combining equine care and art therapy,
youth work ,family support and peer mentoring,
amongst others.
Blackpool CAMHS Based at Blackpool Victoria Hospital has set up a patient participation
group called Entwined Minds (named by the service users), which runs once a month and
is open to all CAMHS service users.. They discuss patient experiences and ask for young
people’s views on the service's website/waiting room/ leaflets with the plan for them to
redesign tools and spaces within CAMHS. They have redesigned information leaflets and
are in the process of redesigning the waiting room to make it a more welcoming place for
children of all ages.
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