Many young people wait a long time to receive the help they need for their mental health. But the evidence shows that if they, and their parents/carers or other supportive adults, are provided with suitable knowledge, skills, and tools, then these young people can do a lot themselves to build/rebuild mentally healthy lives.
So, in co-operation with clinicians and researchers at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, we have developed Headway®.
This is a suite of digital tools that will enable children and young people to build/rebuild their mental health, through family-based self-help, supported by their parents/carers or other supportive adults, and appropriately integrated with the clinical pathway in Primary Care (their GP) and Secondary Care (specialist treatment).
Headway® provides:
- For parents/carers or other supportive adults: knowledge and skills that will enable them to help their child to build/rebuild a mentally healthy life.
- For children and young people: Insight Tools to help them identify risk factors that drive mental ill-health, and Therapeutic Activities that will help them to build/rebuild a mentally healthy life.
Available now:
The Headway: Parent Toolkit enables parents/carers, and other supportive adults, to develop vital knowledge and skills to help their children build/rebuild mentally healthy lives. This is currently available as a standalone online eLearning resource, but will subsequently be integrated into the comprehensive Headway® when this is released.
For commissioning and deployment:
Our vision is that the full Headway®, comprising the Parent Toolkit and the Insight Tools and Therapeutic Activities, will be freely available for everyone. So, we are in consultations with various NHS organisations about commissioning and deployment.
If you represent an NHS organisation, or similar commissioning organisation, email us at Contact@familymentalwealth.com to gain access to this password-protected page which contains full information and videos detailing all of the Headway® tools.
