Ecorys has produced a good practise guide for involving beneficiaries in your project. The guide is designed for projects looking to work more closely with their beneficiaries and uses good practise from Reaching Communities programmes in England and Northern Ireland.

You can access the Putting Users at the Helm Guide here

‘Using Communication to empower project users,’ is a new guide produced by Ecorys to help projects that want to use communication and empowerment methods to engage their beneficiaries. The guide uses good practise examples from Reaching Communities programmes in England and Northern Ireland and includes case study example of how other projects have used communication and empowerment.

You can access the Electric Communication Guide here

The National CAMHS Support Service (NCSS) have developed a Tackling Stigma Toolkit which will be officially launched at the NCSS National Young People’s Participation Conference in Leicester on 28 October. The toolkit has been developed from the Tackling Stigma Framework, designed by Dr Fiona Warner-Gale (2006).

The Tackling Stigma Toolkit is for all professionals, partnerships and organisations who commission and provide children’s and young people’s mental health services. It aids the development of a planned and informed approach to tackling the stigma of children’s and young people’s mental health problems.

Ecorys in partnership with CAMHS Evidence Based practise Unit (CAMHS EBPU) evaluated use of the Tackling Stigma Framework across the six pilot areas where it was initially implemented. The evaluation found that the framework has been beneficial in changing children’s and young people’s beliefs about mental health and stigma.

Click here to download the Tackling Stigma Toolkit

Click here to download the Tackling Stigma Evaluation Report