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The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is “young people and mental health in a changing world”. 

Half of all mental illness begins by the age of 14, but most cases go undetected and untreated. The World Health Organisation's focus is on building mental resilience among young people, to help them cope with the challenges of today’s world. 
 

LICENSED TRAINERS

The NIS is very excited at the growing number of KEEP Licensed Trainers that operate here in the UK, increasing the opportunities for young people and carers to access KEEP. Congratulations to Emma Turnham, Jo Lea, Clare Campling, Bonnie Griffiths, Pat Beech, Mandy Taylor-Mellor, Rob Lewis and Mike Wilson, who have all reached an outstanding level of both expertise and practice. 

"In recognition of World Mental Health Day 2017, KEEP promotes positive mental health by exploring skills and strategies which reduce stress,  anxiety and isolation felt by carers. Carers tell us that they have new skills, friends and feel empowered when caring for children and young people." Jo Warburton

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Mental health in the workplace is the theme of World Mental Health Day 2017. The overall objective is to raise awareness of mental health issues and mobilise efforts in support of better mental health.

The Day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide.

For more information please visit the WHO website

The SCIE has published their findings in relation to Models of care and care pathways to support the mental health and wellbeing of looked after children.

The NIS submitted evidence for five interventions; KEEP, TEND, RESuLT, AdOpt & TFCO.

Feedback across all NIS submissions was largely positive and reflected our commitment to both excellence and evidence in practice.

In recognition of Fostering Fortnight we would like to share feedback from carers who recently completed KEEP Safe in Somerset.

“Since completing KEEP we have seen a huge difference in how we foster young people. It has taught us to be much more positive towards everything and this has had a huge impact on the young person living with us. We are able to deal with challenging behaviour in a much more softer approach and we use strategies taught in KEEP every single day without realising…now it just comes naturally to us!

The Life Chances Fund (LCF) will be open for Expressions of Interest to develop Social Impact Bonds in the themes of early years and young people from 4 January 2017.

The mental health of looked after children and care leavers remained a focus for the Government and us all as a society as we entered the New Year.  News stories continued to remind us of the impact of early experiences on the lives of young people in care and those leaving care.  Arguably, we now also realise more and more, that becoming a looked after child can provide the necessary relationships to make a positive difference for many young people.

The Department of Health and Department for Education have established an Expert Working Group – supported by the Social Care Institute for Excellence - to develop models of care and care pathways to support the mental health and wellbeing of looked after children and care leavers.

You are invited to submit evidence and/or register for a stakeholder event.

Call for evidence

A new academic paper has been published regarding the implementation of KEEP in the UK.

Abstract:

The Department for Education has launched a new prospectus for local authorities and their partners to bid for financial and other support to implement a range of intensive, cost effective and evidence based or research informed interventions. To complement this work, bids are also being invited for local authorities and independent fostering agencies to form consortia to develop new approaches to foster carer recruitment to attract a wider range of people into fostering.

There are two strands to the funding available: