CYP IAPT Learning Collaboratives

The Children and Young People's IAPT Project Phase One Learning Collaboratives.

The Children and Young people's IAPT Project asked universities and teaching providers (HEIs) to link up with local CAMHS partnerships to come together to transform their local CAMHS. The way this transformation will take place is through training staff and service managers in evidence based practice (in year one, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and parenting therapy), making sure that the whole service, not just the trainee therapists, use session by session outcome monitoring and improving access (see National Curriculum). Any organisation seeking funding had to tell us how they are going to involve children, young people and families to consider the service change necessary, and each local area partnership which is successful has an allowance in their budget for participation.
The first three collaboratives are:

  • UCL (University College London)/KCL (King's College London) as the joint HEIs covering Cambridge, Hertfordshire, Sussex, Greenwich, Lambeth & Southwark, Haringey, Westminster and Wandsworth.
  • Salford Cognitive Therapy Training Centre at Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust as the HEI covering North Pennine, South Pennine, Manchester & Salford, Derby and Barnsley.
  • Reading as the HEI covering Oxford,  Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath & NE Somerset, Bournemouth, Dorset, Poole and Gloucestershire.

The  3 collaboratives work not only in their own region but into neighbouring regions. With this first phase of partnerships we will transform services which cover a population of 2 million under 18 year olds.

The bidding process to join one of the successful collaboratives in 2012-12 has now  been  announced click here

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