ARC Outreach Alliance                      Young People's Open Minds in North West London

YPAG worked alongside the NHS North West London Integrated Care Board providing an advisory service to ensure that young people's ideas, perspectives and solutions were placed at the centre of planning process while developing their  Children and Young People's Mental Health Strategy. 

YPAG members attended governance meetings, gave presentations, led on community engagement to contribute to shaping future mental health services for young people in North West London.

For more information, read our report: Young Minds, Real Change Shaping the North West London ICB Mental Health Strategy, provided in PDF viewer format on the right.

YPAG led a nine-month engagement project commissioned by the ARC Outreach Alliance research project team, that involving more than 300 young people from across North West London. 

With support from the AOA researchers, YPAG members designed the survey, gathered views from young people and analysed the findings to identify priorities for mental health support and future research.

The AOA project has now ended, however, YPAG  remains active and available to provide funded advisory services to help shape policy design and delivery in equal partnership with policymakers, provide a steer on how to involve young people in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).

The YPAG team now has over 6-years experience supporting and directly assisting academic researchers and NHS  organisations with meeting their PPIE targets.

YPAG is available to produce outputs that capture health priorities from young people to help shape future research, and provide direct access opportunities to meaningfully engage with young people from diverse communities.