Posts tagged resilience
How we’re Changing Up the system to respond to what young people want and need
How we’re Changing Up the system to respond to what young people want and need

From training packs for teachers on how to respond to disclosures of abusive relationships, to resources for young people on how to recognise the signs of coercive control, there’s something for everyone to feel better educated on both topics and empowered to take action so that young people and families have their needs met. We’ll be celebrating and sharing the exciting work these young changemakers have been designing – in person – at the #ChangeUp Exhibition in Paisley. This exhibition, open to everyone in Renfrewshire and beyond, is packed with the innovations designed by and for young people and system leaders, to inspire all of us to educate, empower and equalise systems to tackle coercive control and take early action on mental wellbeing.

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NewsBLOGresilience, Evidence, research, mental health, lockdown, Parents, families, evaluation, Design, coercive control, Renfrewshire, children, Early Action, Systems Thinking, systems change, Catherine-rose
Reflection: Evaluating digital services to create the “new normal”
Reflection: Evaluating digital services to create the “new normal”

This blog reflects on parents’ experiences of services during the pandemic and staff’s hopes and concerns for future delivery. We also share how evaluation has helped organisations understand these, and how it can be used to shape delivery in the future.

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NewsBLOGresilience, Evidence, research, mental health, Associates, lockdown, Comic Relief, Rise and Shine, Parents, families, evaluation, Digital Inclusion, digital exclusion, Design
Dartington named as core partner in ambitious £5.3m initiative called Kailo: a systemic approach to improving adolescent mental health
Dartington named as core partner in ambitious £5.3m initiative called Kailo: a systemic approach to improving adolescent mental health

Dartington has formed an exciting partnership to develop, test and refine an ambitious approach to help young people and local areas develop locally produced and evidence-informed approaches to improve adolescent mental health. The team is led by Research Director, Professor Peter Fonagy OBE (UCL Psychology and Language Sciences) and Professor Tim Hobbs (Dartington Service Design Lab). Their partnership has been awarded a UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) Consortium award of £5.3 million over five years.

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NewsBLOGresilience, Evidence, Tim, inequality, research, mental health, mental ill health, PRP, Kailo, health
Using evidence to improve - sharing our learning to date
Using evidence to improve - sharing our learning to date

We talk about evidence a lot at Dartington, and using evidence ‘in new ways’. We try to put this in practical terms without too much jargon, but we know it still sounds pretty abstract. What do we actually mean? Our new report tries to bring it all down to earth.

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ReflectionBLOGfamilies, Young people, Programmes, Programme Adaptation, resilience, theory of change, Salford, Rapid Cycle Testing, Evidence, evaluation, Jenny
Discovering the shared importance of family resilience
Discovering the shared importance of family resilience

At Dartington, we have been working with Salford Council to develop a systemic Theory of Change for their Better Outcomes New Delivery (BOND) programme. In the course of the work with managers and practitioners from across the BOND programme, we discovered that family resilience was felt to be central to all the programmes – but also under-explored. What did it look like, and how could it be supported? We worked with teams to create a testable model of the dynamic causes of family resilience to underpin and inform subsequent work within the systemic theory of change for all BOND programmes. Here’s what we learnt...

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ReflectionBLOGfamilies, Young people, Programmes, Programme Adaptation, resilience, Leanne, Keira, theory of change, Salford