Posts tagged children.
How UK Youth’s ‘Thriving Minds’ grantees are developing partnerships to address young people's mental health needs
How UK Youth’s ‘Thriving Minds’ grantees are developing partnerships to address young people's mental health needs

UK Youth’s Thriving Minds Fund, which spans from 2022-2025, set out to support 99 charities and not-for-profit youth organisations to investigate best practices around mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people. A key ambition of the Fund was to enable and strengthen connection and learning between those working within the youth sector. 

As the Learning Partner on the Thriving Minds Fund, we’ve been working with UK Youth and grantees to generate evidence about what enables the sector to work better together and share knowledge around best practices to support young people experiencing mental health challenges.

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ReflectionRachel Lilychildren., funders, impact, research, UK Youth, Mentalhealh, Youth work, wellbeing, Learning Partners, Learning, Ediane Santana De Lima
Evaluating 10 years of Early Years Systems Change: Insights from Lambeth Early Action Partnership
Evaluating 10 years of Early Years Systems Change: Insights from Lambeth Early Action Partnership

For 10 years, Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) has funded and supported more than 20 local services to meet the needs of families through pregnancy and the early years of childhood with the aim of giving thousands of children aged 0-3 a better start in life. Now, a decade on, Dartington Service Design Lab is proud to present this new report, sharing the findings from a comprehensive evaluation of the programme. This report explores how place-based systems change can improve outcomes for children and families.

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Systems, PublicationsRachel Lilychildren., Children's Services, families, Systems, Systems Thinking, systems change, Rachel Lily, evaluation, co-design, DawnHart, earlyyears, funders, impact, inequality, Lambeth., research, Sean Manzi, Finlay, Megan Keenan
Dartington to lead new Youth Endowment Fund COVID-19 Learning Partnership
Dartington to lead new Youth Endowment Fund COVID-19 Learning Partnership

The Dartington Service Design Lab joins the Centre for Youth Impact, Research in Practice and the University of Plymouth to form the Learning Partnership for the new Youth Endowment Fund COVID-19 Grant Round. We will focus on understanding the impact of COVID-19 on young people at risk of being drawn into violent crime, and the most effective approaches to reaching, engaging and serving vulnerable young people during the pandemic.

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ReflectionBLOGEvidence, Young people, children., families, stress, lockdown, covid, coronavirus, Harvard, mental health, pregnancy, Rachel Lily, Tim
Key learnings from People Powered approaches
Key learnings from People Powered approaches

Across our projects at the Dartington Service Design Lab we are seeing many Local Authorities who want to empower parents and other community members to support each other during crucial times – including during children’s early years. The role we play is to ensure that any ‘people powered’ support works in the best way it can. So far, we have learned three key lessons.

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ReflectionBLOGEvidence, Young people, children., families, stress, lockdown, covid, coronavirus, Harvard, mental health, pregnancy, Ben