The next in the 2023/24 series of seminars from The Open University's Centre for Children and Young People's Wellbeing.
About this Event

We are pleased to present two really cutting-edge presentations which are not to be missed! The first at the policy edge of inclusion of young people in health policy, the other at the engagement edge in talking about young people’s mental health.

Part 1

New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) is a think tank and consultancy for the social sector. In January 2024 they published the following report in collaboration with the Health Foundation:

‘How can you meaningfully involve young people in your policy work? Lessons from the Young People’s Future health Inquiry’(Bradshaw-Walsh ,K. and Ali, A, 2024).

We will be joined by colleagues involved in preparing this report and further work that is being developed from it:

Katie Boswell - Katie works within NPC’s research and consulting team as Associate Director. She works with a range of charities and funders to help them to understand the change they want to see and how to get there. This includes using approaches such as theory of change, user involvement and systems change to maximise their impact. Since joining NPC in 2015, she has worked with clients including RNLI, Scope, Stroke Association, Versus Arthritis, London Funders, The Robertson Trust, Power to Change and Friends Provident Foundation.

Tris Lumley - Tris leads NPC’s work on innovation, developing new approaches, programmes and ventures to create significant, long-term contributions to the capability and capacity of the social sector. Tris is primarily focused on collaborative and infrastructural approaches to data and digital in the social sector. Tris helped initiate and develop NPC’s work on digital, which is currently focused on creating practical collaborations on digital technology in the youth sector and the Inspiring Impact programme which aims to improve impact practice across the UK charity sector.

Part 2

James Gregory CEO: All People Active: Talking to young people about mental health.

All People Active aims to remove the barriers and reduce the inequality of opportunity that exists for ALL PEOPLE (especially those living in disadvantaged communities and who belong to marginalised groups) to be able to take part in fun and informal sport and physical activity. One of their recent service developments has been in preparing and delivering training for parents and other adults in the difficult task of talking about mental health with young people. James will tell us how the program came about, how it is being used in the community and the impact it is having.

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