Youth mental health illness has been on the rise for years, with increased rates of anxiety, depression and more serious conditions coming to the fore as a result of the pandemic.
In partnership with Forward Thinking Birmingham, our youth mental health service for 0-25 year olds, our Fight For All The Feels campaign aimed to promote good mental health for the young people of Birmingham.
Your generous donations helped fund roles within our Peer Support Worker programme - a new innovative and accessible model of care - and the first of its kind within Children’s and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the UK.
Each of the Peer Support Workers come from the same communities and backgrounds of the people they will support and, crucially, have their own lived experiences of mental illness. Therefore, not only will they be able to help young people with their medical recovery, they will aid them with their personal recovery too.
Find out more about the campaign below and meet our Peer Support Workers.
These are brave accounts of young people living with a mental health illness: completely RAW, HONEST, and UNFILTERED. They join thousands of young people across Birmingham calling out to be heard. So read their stories here. Read more
Forward Thinking Birmingham offers a wide range of talking and therapeutic support to young people and work with a number of organisations in the voluntary and community sector to deliver services to young people across the city. Find out more and how to contact them here. Read more
Thanks to your generous donations, the money raised by Fight For All The Feels campaign has launched this new innovative and accessible model of care post-pandemic. It will fund Peer Support Workers who, once established, will be the first of their kind within Children’s and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the UK. Read more
A year after Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity announced its ambition to fund a number of peer support workers, to work with children and young people in Birmingham experiencing mental health illness, the first peer support worker is now in post. Read more