Participation webinars | Resources

Topic:: Participation

For:: Schools, NHS staff and commissioners, Local authorities

This resource covers:

Best practice examples of participation and guidance and tips for professionals involved in the design and delivery of children and young people's mental health services.

Introduction to parent and carer participation

Introduction to parent and carer participation webinar

Topic:: Participation

For:: Schools, NHS staff and commissioners, Local authorities

About this resource:

This one-hour webinar is aimed at professionals involved in the design and delivery of children and young people's mental health services, including:

participation leads
children and young people's mental health clinicians and support workers
children and young people's mental health service managers
NHS or local authority children and young people's mental health commissioners

It will provide guidance and tips on how to develop a participation strategy with and for parents and carers of young people accessing mental health services. It will also talk through best practice examples as well as challenges and opportunities to consider.

Participation in governance

Participation in governance webinar

Topic:: Participation

For:: Schools, NHS staff and commissioners, Local authorities

About this resource:

This 90 minute webinar is aimed at senior leaders and trustees/board officers working in youth mental health organisations who would like to effectively integrate children and young people into the strategic planning and leadership of their organisation.

The objectives of the webinar are:

For participants to identify the dual benefit of and the role for CYP in their organisation’s leadership.
For participants to clarify their starting point, opportunities and limitations to CYP’s participation in governance in their organisation.
For participants to learn about a range of participatory governance models and to identify which one best suits their situation.
For participants to understand the steps they can follow to develop participatory governance in their organisation.

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Related courses

Online training

Amplifying young voices

11 December 2024 10:00 - 11:00

This webinar will introduce participation and how to identify opportunities to meaningfully involve young people in shaping wellbeing support and services, and how their participation can support a whole system approach to mental health.