Mental health services in a digital space

Mental health services in a digital space

This roundtable is one of a series that aim to bring policy and decision makers together with a group of young peer researchers to design detailed questions around policy and practice that will be asked in a large scale survey to young people across the capital. 

We will be inviting a group of young people to the roundtable to hear about the policy context around mental health services, especially digital platforms and the apps that young people are increasingly turning to. They will then facilitate a series of break out discussions looking at what specific policy questions around digital mental health services we want to be asking young Londoners. 

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction (5.00pm - 5.10pm)
• The Digital Health Ambadassdaors - Shelby Davies, Partnership for Young London (5.10pm - 5.20pm)
• Discussion on digital mental health services  - Group discussion (5.20pm - 5.40pm)
• Breakout group session on survey question design - Facilitated by young people (5.40pm - 6.20pm)
• Summary and next steps - (6.20pm - 6.30pm)

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This roundtable is part of our new Mapping Solutions for London research, which is a follow up to the original Mapping Young London report (https://www.partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk/mappingyounglondon) which looked at the challenges faced by young people in 2021. For this follow up report we want to replicate the success of Mapping Young London, but also focus on:

1. Peer research approach: While the first report was co-designed, we want to recruit a consistent group of peer researchers who will design and lead on this work throughout. They will be paid a living wage, and be trained on research methods, ethics, and analysis.
2. Similar or greater sample: Mapping Young London reached 1,600 young people. We would want this follow up to reach that number, or more. We will again recruit participants mainly through social media, though other means will be up to the peer researchers.
3. Similar or greater level of collaboration: Mapping Young London was a collaboration with 22 organisations. However, while a similar number of organisations would be ideal, for this project we want to focus on greater involvement and engagement by external organisations during the design of the research too.
4. Solutions focused: As a follow up, we want to focus on young people’s views on policy solutions and change. We want to ask about specific policies scoped out by young people and policymakers and learn what the specific changes young people support are.