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Turning Tides

Piloting the use of community-based mental health and wellbeing support for young people across the North Yorkshire coast.

  • Location

    North Yorkshire, UK

  • Launch

    Jan 2024

  • Area

    Health & Wellbeing

Collaborators & Funding Partners

  • Anglo American

Delivery Partners

  • Sidewalk Youth Project

  • The Junction Foundation

  • The Link Charitable Trust

Team

Collaborators & Funding Partners

  • Anglo American

Delivery Partners

  • Sidewalk Youth Project

  • The Junction Foundation

  • The Link Charitable Trust

  • Mila founded and leads Bridges Outcomes Partnerships (BOP). At BOP, we work to radically improve human services and environmental initiatives to improve outcomes for people and value for society. Programmes BOP supports are dedicated to empowering people across the world to improve their lives, in areas ranging from education and wellbeing to housing, child protection, employment and environmental protection. Mila is on boards of Positive Families Partnership, Stronger Families, Forward, North East Lincolnshire Thrive, Ways to Wellness, Education Outcomes Partnerships, along with other family, employment, and refugee support focused programmes.

    Mila is also a Trustee for Clore Social Leadership, organisation dedicated to providing social leaders with world class leadership development.

    Prior to Bridges, Mila’s career spanned public, private, and third sector. Mila helped create and run Education Generation, a crowdsourcing social enterprise focused on enabling young leaders in low-and middle-income countries to participate in some of the world’s most forward-thinking education programmes.

  • Katie is the Operational Lead for Turning Tides, a preventative mental health and wellbeing programme in the north of England. Katie’s role involves supporting local partners in the delivery of the programme, which uses long term coaching and social prescriptions to support young people to improve their wellbeing and emotional resilience.

    Prior to joining BOP, Katie spent several years in charity management, leading on psycho-social palliative care for children, young people, and their families across the Southeast of England.

    Katie holds a degree in Psychology from Royal Holloway University of London.

  • Iciar Ania, Executive Director at Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, has been working with Bridges for the last 6 years, during which time she has designed and implemented more than 10 Outcomes Partnerships related to:

    • Supporting care experienced young people to access employment and education opportunities,
    • Supporting young people with their mental health and wellbeing,
    • Helping families stay together through family therapy,
    • Supporting vulnerable women at risk of multiple removals and/or sexual harm and violence, and
    • Supporting unpaid carers to improve their wellbeing and sustain their caring role.

    Prior to joining Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Iciar worked in Investment Banking at Arcano Group and Nomura Group. Iciar also spent 2 years in Cambodia working for a charity that supports families of people with physical and intellectual disabilities.

    Iciar holds a Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University in the USA and from ICADE in Spain and an MBA from INSEAD.

Overview

Turning Tides is a two-year pilot programme testing innovative means of protecting and promoting the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable young people along the North Yorkshire Coast.

Over 20% of young people have a probable mental health disorder with significantly more facing mental health challenges. With a growing chasm between the services available through adolescent and adult mental health services and what is required, preventative, non-clinical and non-medicalised support is crucial for managing demand on downstream services and to offer real hope of changing the trajectory and outcomes for young people starting to struggle with their wellbeing and mental health.

Turning Tides leverages local organisations and their expertise, providing each young person a dedicated coach to work collectively to address self-identified challenges and ambitions, matching these with opportunities within the community.

The programme has been developed collaboratively with input from Local Authority and NHS stakeholders and is funded by Anglo American. Post the pilot phase, the intention is to launch a longer-term, cross-sector outcomes partnership, building on the evidence and learning captured over the initial two-year phase.

Outcomes

Turning Tides is providing personalised support to over 90 young people. As the programme progresses, we will update this page with further outcomes achieved. Stay tuned!

  • 0

    Young people supported

  • 0

    First goals achieved