Improving young people's mental resilience and wellbeing: Learning from HeadStart

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Join us at the first in a series of events about new approaches to supporting young people’s mental wellbeing and resilience.

We’ll be sharing what we’ve learned from HeadStart, a National Lottery funded programme set up to give young people aged 10 to 16 the tools to overcome life’s challenges and prevent serious mental-health issues.

The event is aimed at professionals from commissioning, policy, delivery and research backgrounds.

It’s presented by Big Lottery Fund in collaboration with the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. 

About HeadStart

HeadStart is a five-year National Lottery funded programme set up by the Big Lottery Fund.

Local authority led HeadStart partnerships in Blackpool, Cornwall, Hull, Kent, Newham and Wolverhampton are designing new approaches to providing support when and where it is needed, focusing on developing young people’s emotional resilience.

The Evidence Based Practice Unit at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and UCL is working with Big Lottery Fund and the HeadStart partnerships to collect and evaluate evidence about what does and doesn’t work locally to benefit young people now and in the future.   

Partners working with the Evidence Based Practice Unit on this evaluation include the Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), Common Room, London School of Economics and the University of Manchester.