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On May 8th at Central Hall Keighley, the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Mental Health Transformation Programme held a event to showcase '1 Year of Innovation' which saw partner organisations get together to listen to how the programme had evolved over the last twelve months and to spend some time discussing what was working well with the programme, what could be improved and how they would like to see the programme develop.
Emma Taylor from WACA and Bil Graham and Claire-Marie Jackson from AWC Modality introduced the event and presented how Primary Care was working with the VCS to transform the way mental health care and support is delivered.
Candy Squires-Watts from Keighley Healthy Living and Leon Fijalkowski from Pioneer Projects highlighted what the programme offered in Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven and how this had evolved to meet local demand over the past year.
As part of the 'Mental Health Transformation programme which brings together the WACA and AWC Modality PCN's alongside Pioneer Projects (Craven Hubs), Roshni Ghar & Keighley Healthy Living (Airedale & Wharfedale Hubs), there has been a new mental health support group launched in Ilkley. The drop-in sessions will be held at Christchurch, every Thursday 10am to Midday, to find out more visit www.mentalhealthconnect.org.uk
The WACA GR8 Minds Team were part of the AWARE World Autism Acceptance Event (WAAD) at Bradford City on Tuesday 16th April.
WAAD is a free event for families with autistic children or undiagnosed children or people with a connection to autism, and is a chance to meet a whole host of services including education and health care, speech and language, social care, sports and activity clubs and much more!
Shameem and David were on hand to speak with families with autistic or undiagnosed children, offering advice on a range of topics including mental health support and annual health checks.
