Project
Young People's Mental Health Project
Funding
£74,000 over two years from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation up to the end of March this year. Training for other organisations costs £400 for up to 15 people or £50 per person
Background
In 2012, Clubs for Young People - now called Ambition - published Somewhere to Talk - Someone to Listen, a three-year investigation into the role of youth clubs in supporting young people's mental health and wellbeing.
Led by voluntary organisation Young Devon, the study found youth clubs could help prevent young people developing serious mental health issues, through strong relationships with staff and the signposting they offer. But it also revealed a hunger among youth workers for training to help improve the support they provide. So Young Devon teamed up with the charity YoungMinds to develop a training programme.
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