Illustrated self-care guide for NHS England
Illustrated self-care guide including safety plan templates for young people with complex needs receiving and awaiting NHS support.
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Co-produced through virtual workshops with young people sharing lived experience from Peer Power Youth Charity and Barnardos.​
This resource is part of the NHS’s long-term integrated care system, improving early intervention for those at risk of entering the welfare, youth justice or mental health inpatient estates by supporting organisations and local councils to work closer together.
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What was our objective?
Get
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Young people with complex needs
Are receiving or awaiting NHS support
Support themselves with healthy coping strategies and build a safety plan
By
Providing an interactive illustrated guide of ways they can help themselves.
What was our process?
1. Analyse the original jargon-filled 54 page document about the NHS Framework for Integrated Care.
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Barnardos
Peer Power
Young people
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2. Facilitate co-production workshops with young people with lived experience from Peer Power Youth Charity and Barnardos to share ideas, perspectives and shape the content and format together.
3. Roughly sketch the group selected coping strategies.
4. Develop the stylisation.
5. Finalise each illustration and the poetic written content.
The Solution
Testimonial
Andrew Nichols-Clarke
Senior Development Lead, Health and Justice Children Programme, NHS England
Lizzie has been a pleasure to work with on the project. In terms of initial concept and design she has a real creative flair and has brought something truly unique to the box.
At times, having to take all service user’s feedback, including professionals, services, managers as well as young people has been challenging and the need to update documents multiple times.
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Realising that things in the NHS do change rapidly, Lizzie has been able to remain resilient and work really well independently to get things updated.
We wanted to thank Lizzie for all her hard work, dedication and patience on a project which has grown from its initial scope.
The work Lizzie has undertaken will form part of key documentation as part of the delivery of the NHS England Long Term Plan, to support the most complex young people. It will ensure that young people are involved and understand the services they will be supported by and ensure they are actively involved in their own care.
Lizzie’s flair for creativity has also provided us with some thinking around how some of the resources produced can be shared wider than just within our own programme.