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UPROMISE

UPROMISE provides CAMHS professionals with a series of structured learning activities on how to make the most effective use of patient feedback. Find out more about the training. 

DIY Health evaluation

The DIY Health project aimed to increase the skills, knowledge and confidence of parents in managing children’s health and to reduce attendance in primary care and urgent NHS care services among children under five for self-limiting conditions such as coughs, colds, fever and feeding.

Perinatal Mental Health Scorecard Evaluation

The scorecard is used as a quality improvement tool to ensure that all perinatal women and their families receive the best quality care to strengthen their mental health.

Hearing Voices

Hearing Voices was a project which evaluated the London Voice Collective, a service which provides advice, support and workshops/groups for young people who hear voices. The aim of the evaluation was to consider which aspects of the service worked well, and how it could be improved in the future.

BOND (Better Outcomes New Delivery)

This was a collaborative project led by YoungMinds which ran for two years, beginning September 2011. The aim of this programme was to build up the capacity of Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations (VCSOs) in delivering early intervention mental health support for children and young people.

TAMHS – Targeted Mental Health in Schools Report

This 3-year project was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now Department for Education) to investigate the impact of a government initiative to improve mental health in schools and to examine the ways schools try to help children when they feel sad, worried and troubled. The final report is now on the DfE website.

Masterclasses

CAMHS EBPU had funding from the Department of Health to run a series of  masterclasses, the first of which took place in June and July 2010. These master classes were aimed at developing the skills of practitioners and managers in terms of undertaking meaningful local evaluation, outcomes informed and evidence based outcomes and ensuring appropriate user participation. In total CAMHS EBPU ran 9 sets of Masterclasses:

  • Local Evaluation in CAMHS (June - July 2010)
  • Children and Young People's Involvement and User Participation (October - November 2010)
  • Developing Evidence Based and Outcomes Informed Practice in CAMHS (February - March 2011)
  • 7 Steps to Quality Improvement (September - October 2011)
  • Children and Young People's Involvement and User Participation (November 2011 - January 2012)
  • Latest Developments in Evidence Based and Outcomes Informed Practice in CAMHS (March - May 2012)
  • Embracing Uncertainty when Reasoning about Outcomes (November - December 2012)
  • Shared Decision Making for CAMHS (November - December 2012)
  • Using Outcome Measures as Part of Clinical Conversations (March 2013)

The masterclasses final report is now available.

Closing the Gap: Shared Decision Making in CAMHS

‘Closing the Gap: Shared Decision Making in CAMHS’ was a quality improvement initiative funded by the Health Foundation through their ‘Closing the Gap – transforming relationships programme’.

The CAMHS EBPU, in collaboration with CORC, and YoungMinds, worked directly with four child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) across the country to test out different models and approaches to make SDM a reality in the child mental health context.

CODE

Child Outcomes Data Explained (CODE) was commissioned by the Department of Health and undertaken by CAMHS EBPU in consultation with CORC and created nationally accessible web and paper based tools that help practitioners, commissioners, children and young people to make real use of a range of outcome data in a meaningful way.

Production of guidance and support materials in relation to bullying and mental health issues

EBPU was commissioned by the NCB to produce a guidance document reviewing the associations between bullying and mental health in children and young people, aimed at teachers and other professionals working with young people. Incorporating evidence from both research and young people themselves, the document included an accompanying training presentation.