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   Emma Adams 23 Mar 2023

   This is a super idea which combines novel ideas for participation with more practical QI help - much more likely to result in sustainable change and longer lasting engagement.  I'd be interested in knowing how you will build in some evaluation and capture the learning for wider sharing.

   Good luck team!

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      Helen Crimlisk 23 Mar 2023

      Thanks Emma  - good to hear from you. You are right the evaluation element is important. We need to think about capturing the learning in an iterative manner, ensuring that learning is not lost about how the project changes with the input of our wider communities. I like to think about it as action learning - with each new step informed by reflection on what has happened and being evaluated in real time.

      I like Parya's suggestion of involving 3rd sector in the evaluation is also useful. We have great links with @josiesoutar of Sheffield Flourish who has some really innovative methodologies using film, blogs and storytelling with whom we've worked before https://SheffieldFlourish.co.uk

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      Parya Rostami 23 Mar 2023

      Hi Emma,

      Thank you so much for the encouragement and you make really good points about factoring in evaluation and sharing learning. We have had some thoughts ignited by your comments and we will be making the following changes to the bid above:

      1. We will be using implementation theory to help evaluate this work as we want to make sure this new way of working with local influential young people is implemented into practice succesfully and will have support from an implementation specialist Dr Kristian Hudson from the Yorkshire Improvement academy. With his support we will ensure that there is a formative evaluation using implementation theory of this project - which I know the Q community also support with.
      2. Melissa who is on the team and is our Trust's Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework Lead has also made a really good point this week about how we need to work more closely with charities in terms of raising awareness and sharing learning.

      We really want it to work and become a more common way of working with local people - so any advice for improvement at all is much appreciated :)

      Thanks,

      Parya

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   Dr Seema Srivastava MBE 21 Mar 2023

   I love the creativity of this project Helen. Engaging marginalised young people in peer support and codesigning service, is so important. Our future.

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      Helen Crimlisk 23 Mar 2023

      Thanks Seema - kind of you to say. You are leading the way on this with your own experiences of coproduced QI and EBCD, good to see this methodology becoming so mainstream and the focus on marginalised groups is crucial when we think about population health and wellbeing

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   Sarah Andersen 11 Mar 2023

   Hi Parya,

   I am so impressed with the approach here. Meeting people where they are makes sense, and  I feel we often fail to do this. I am keen to see how your idea develops.

   Sarah

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      Helen Crimlisk 13 Mar 2023

      thanks Sarah -i think we need to do more connecting with communities in innovative ways - i suspect primary care is more aware of the local community assets than secondary care is. Perhaps our developing Primary Mental Health Care Teams (with VCSE input) can help open our eyes to other opportunities particularly with underserved populations.

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      Parya Rostami 11 Mar 2023

      Hi Sarah,

      Really appreciate your supportive comment. I totally agree with you, we often say we can’t do more for getting certain groups to come to us and be more engaged and it begs the question “why can’t we just go to them and get engaged with what they’re already doing” .. I think there’s more going on in underrepresented communities than we realise.

      We would welcome any suggestions you have for improvement as we really want to make this work! Perhaps tips on how we could involve local GPs and other healthcare professionals?

      Thanks,

      Parya

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   Alan Gurbutt 9 Mar 2023

   Meeting survivors on equal terms is important for shaping and delivering services. I like your idea.

   Best wishes,

   Alan

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      Helen Crimlisk 13 Mar 2023

      thanks Alan - yes -this can be hard to achieve. Thinking about relative power disparities is so important here. I see you work in substance misuse. I suspect that there is learning from that area where engagement and proactive and pragmatic approaches are integral to service delivery?

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      Parya Rostami 11 Mar 2023

      Hi Alan,

      Thank you so much for your supportive comment. We hope to get more and more revision to the approach as engagement increases. We also want to make sure those with experience are properly reimbursed and recognised for their knowledge, intelligence and efforts.  Rather than just be expected to volunteer their time and expertise, and involve them as a tick box exercise. This is what we’ve been told is often the case.

      Thanks again and if you have any suggestions on how to improve the idea we would love to hear them.

      Kind regards,

      Parya

       

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   Parya Rostami 6 Mar 2023

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   Emilios Lemoniatis 6 Mar 2023

   I really like the way you are leveraging local social influencers in engaging the community about mental health difficulties.  I also really like the 'all teach all learn' approach that is really inclusive for The Big Conversation event.  It also sounds fun, which is a really important vibe to bring into the mix when working collaboratively.

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      Helen Crimlisk 13 Mar 2023

      thanks Emillios -  yes - we need to think about ways to engage staff and service users which permits "fun"  - we all learn and work better that way and with staff morale so low currently, a focus on "joy at work" is important too

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      Parya Rostami 6 Mar 2023

      Hi Emilios,

      Thank you so much for your comments - they mean so much coming from someone with so much experience in this area .

      We often ask how we can better engage with certain communities, yet we rarely use the expertise of social media influencers who already engage with the communities.  We really hope the work will be based on equal partnership with those involved.  Glad it sounds fun, I know the topics are serious but it is still nice to have some fun when engaging people :)

      Any feedback you hae for improvement will be much appreciated.

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