In a survey of 338 Schools in 2016, 55% had experience a large increase in cases of stress and anxiety amongst young people.
In an evolving initiative to understand and support young people’s mental health and wellbeing, Milton Keynes Council Public Health and NHS Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group created an innovative project called You, Me, Together.
The creative learning charity, Artis, worked with 150 young people and children in four Milton Keynes schools to gain a better understanding of how children and young people in MK perceived mental health, to get them to understand and identify mental health and wellbeing in others (you), in themselves (me), and to support each other (together).
Jill Wilkinson, director of Health and Social Care Integration at NHS MKCCG said: “Our commitment to the mental health and wellbeing of the children and young people in Milton Keynes is one of the key aims of the CCG. We commissioned the You, Me, Together film as we were keen to hear from the voices of children on whose behalf we commission mental health services.
"We have continued to invest in child and adolescent mental health services and to work across the whole system to improve their overall experience.”
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