Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have just launched a new website – designed for young people, by young people – to ensure that all information is available to service users, parents and carers, and healthcare colleagues.
MFT CAMHS is a specialist NHS service that helps children and young people across Manchester, Salford and Trafford who are experiencing mental, emotional or behavioural difficulties that interfere with their daily lives.
The website features designs and ideas from CAMHS service users and is fully co-produced with young people.
Ashlea Sands, an Engagement Worker for CAMHS, worked closely on the project. She said: “One of our participation priorities is to ensure our services are easy to navigate and accessible, to make CAMHS make sense so the website project was key to drive this”
Engagement worker, I was involved in a lot of outreach work from speaking with our inpatients to working closely with the Trafford college’s emotional health and wellbeing society, to ensure a diverse range of voices were heard and to understand what makes a good website, for our young people across Greater Manchester.
“I want participation to be open and accessible, I think it is so important to ensure individuals are empowered to have a say and make change, if they want to”.
Created with Dynamite, partner website developer, the site ensures that the information is clear, accessible and engaging for young people and parents and carers. The website contains advice on wellbeing, mood and mental health, and neurodiversity; and information about the range of MFT CAMHS services and how to access them.
Visit the new MFT CAMHS website.
If you would like to get in touch about taking part, you can email us at: [email protected]
