Beth Ingram Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Founding and leading the UK’s first peer and youth led service for young people experiencing trauma and mental health difficulties. The charity expanded rapidly, won awards and worked with over 200 young people across the UK with a small team of staff and volunteers - all young adults with their own lived experience of distress, trauma and mental health difficulties. Hearts & Minds is currently dormant.

Advisor and Member of various different NHS & Research Networks, Councils and Steering Groups focusing on topics such as Youth Mental Health, Shared Decision Making and Collaborative Practice, all from a lived experience perspective. Training Provider for young people and those who work with them (including staff in education, health and third sector settings) on Youth Mental Health, Coproduction and Intentional Peer Support.

Common Room is led by lived experience. We connect the expertise of children, young people, and people in receipt of services with researchers, practitioners and policymakers to ensure lived experience influences research, policy and practice. We also promote shared decision making, person centred care and collaborative practice across education, social care, health and mental health.

The Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) is the UK’s membership organisation providing support to organisations across health, education, and community sectors on collecting and improving the quality of data and research relating to children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing outcomes and using this to improve services, systems, and policy. Members include mental health service providers, schools, professional bodies and research institutions from across Europe and beyond and they hold data relating to the mental health and wellbeing outcomes of more than 400,000 children, representing the largest data set of this kind worldwide. CORC has now merged with The Anna Freud Centre.

Training and working with NHS staff across the country to improve the support that children and young people and receive when presenting to emergency settings in a mental health crisis.www.wecantalk.online

Delivering evidence based, trauma informed communication training for social care professionals across England. Supporting professionals to have child and young person-centred conversations when there are serious safeguarding concerns around issues such as sexual exploitation, domestic abuse, or serious mental health risk. Following on from initial success, delivering training specifically for specialists addressing safeguarding with children and young people with multiple and complex needs such as being non-verbal, paralysed, or unable to communicate through traditional means.www.mefirst.org.uk

QNIC was developed from the National Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Study (NICAPS) in 2001. The network aims to demonstrate and improve the quality of inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric in-patient care through a system of review against the QNIC service standards. This process follows a clinical audit cycle with self-review and peer-review.