Name Our Minds Our Future
Provider Youth Access
Our Minds Our Future is a youth-led campaign fighting for young people's right to access better mental health support.
The campaign forms part of a wider programme called Make Our Rights Reality, co-ordinated by Youth Access. From small group training on everyday issues like housing and benefits, to building a big collective movement around the right to mental healthcare, the programme combines education, advocacy and social action to empower young people to use their rights to challenge injustice.
The Our Minds Our Future campaign was born after a series of events and consultations led by young people. Youth Access supported a group of young people with diverse experience of the mental health system to design and facilitate a "Mental Health Takeover Day" in November 2017 with senior NHS decision-makers. Through discussions and activities, the group decided on a set of core demands, focusing on access to services, appropriate funding and the transition from children's to adults' services - which became the foundation for the campaign.
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