Mental Health

This Guide has been designed to help stakeholders design and implement Living Well (LW) systems, as a key priority within the Greater Manchester’s Community Mental Health transformation.

If you’re worried someone you care about is showing the signs of an eating disorder, the first step is to talk to them and encourage them to seek help.

Greater Manchester i-THRIVE Programme team spoke with Kim Marshall, Associate Directorate Manager for Healthy Young Minds in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale about how the service became a top performer for NHS Benchmarking

Longdendale High School’s whole school curriculum to support the emotional health and wellbeing of students, staff, and the wider community

The Greater Manchester i-THRIVE programme team spoke with Rachel Pilling, the service manager for M-THRIVE about the development of the THRIVE Framework in Manchester.

Marie Baron, the Commissioning Transformation Manager for children and young people’s Mental Health and Learning Disability Services met with the i-THRIVE team to discuss the role of the Thrive Mentor in Wigan.

The Greater Manchester i-THRIVE Programme team caught up with Graham Doubleday from Wigan Start Well, Chloe Charnock from the Early Help Hub, Amy Cotter from Sensoriel and Sarah Marshall Wigan commissioner to discuss Wigan’s General Practitioner (GP) referral pathway.

The National i-THRIVE Programme spoke with Dr Paul Wallis, Director of Psychological Services, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, about Manchester and Salford’s Integrated Access and Care Pathways.

Kevin Edward Turner, Artistic Director, and Sam Broadbent, Learning & Participation Manager at Company Chameleon meet Kat Taylor, GM i-THRIVE Arts, Culture and Mental Health Programme Manager to explore how arts and cultural provision can support emotional health and wellbeing for children and young people.

Katherine Taylor, practising clinical psychologist and manager of the innovative programme discusses the aims and progress so far.

The Greater Manchester i-THRIVE Programme team spoke with Dr Liz Bailey, Clinical Lead for the Virtual Mental Health Team for Our Children with Disabilities, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, to discuss the creation of a virtual mental health team as part of a local transformation plan to support children and young people.

The Greater Manchester (GM) i-THRIVE Programme team spoke with Lee Dinsdale, Director at Unity Radio in Greater Manchester, to discuss the innovative ways in which their offer has been adapted during lockdown

The i-THRIVE Programme team spoke with Dr Caroline White, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and head of the Children And Parents Service Manchester about how the service provides an integrated support pathway for families.

Salford’s Emotional Health Workforce Training Programme and strategy: an example of how a locality can develop a bespoke training strategy to build capacity in the children and young people’s (CYP) workforce.

Stockport Integrated Parent Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Care Pathway is informed by the strong evidence base emphasising the importance of supporting child development and family relationships in the early years of a child’s life.

An essential framework for communities who are supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and families

This case study looks at how Unity Radio in Manchester are supporting young people and contributing to the local ambition to implement the THRIVE Framework

Read more about the #Thrive service based in Rochdale, an early help, mental health service for children and young people (CYP) between 0-19 years

An early identification model that was developed in Oldham includes multi-agency care plans to provide holistic help and support

The Tameside and Glossop THRIVE Model of Care is a great example of whole system working

Developing a consultation care pathway in Stockport

The eating disorder service in Greater Manchester is a developing example of implementing a whole-system pathway across all of the THRIVE Framework needs based groupings