Toolkit

Breaking the Silence on Mental Health

Resource title: Breaking the Silence on Mental Health – A Toolkit for Young Carers Services on how to Empower Young Carers and Young Adult Carers with Knowledge and Confidence to have a Voice and Take Action
Published: 2021    Author: Carers Trust

This toolkit for young carer and young adult carer services shares learning from Carers Trust’s My Mental Health project. It has information, guidance and best practice on amplifying the voices of young carers and young adult carers and providing more opportunities for their input into mental health support.

Key points

This resource provides:

  • Examples of youth participation work and success achieved throughout the project.
  • Top tips for services considering youth participation work.
  • Feedback from young carers and young adult carers who were involved in the project about what it meant to them.
  • Good practice case studies demonstrating partnership working.

Further information

Find out more about the My Mental Health project.