Improving the Mental Health of Care-Experienced Children & Young People

CASCADE Cardiff

Dr Rhiannon Evans, Reader in DECIPHer, discusses a systematic review taken of international evidence to understand what programmes work for improving the mental health of care-experienced children & young people, how they work, and what might be the challenges to delivery and engagement.

Find out more about the winter conference series 'On The Journey: Navigating Mental Health'.

 

Located within the Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, CASCADE Research Centre is concerned with all aspects of community-based responses to social needs in children and families, including family support services, children in need services, child protection, and looking after children and adoption. https://cascadewales.org/

ExChange is a project within CASCADE. ExChange an all-Wales network that brings the stakeholders in social care together to share experiences and expertise, and to learn from one another through free events and online resources. Our aim is to improve social work and social care services by creating dialogue and ongoing relationships between people with different types of expertise, informed by recent and current research. https://www.exchangewales.org/


Mae Canolfan Ymchwil CASCADE wedi'i lleoli o fewn Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Mae’n ymwneud â phob agwedd ar ymatebion cymunedol i anghenion cymdeithasol plant a theuluoedd, gan gynnwys gwasanaethau cymorth i deuluoedd, gwasanaethau i blant mewn angen, amddiffyn plant, plant sy'n derbyn gofal, a mabwysiadu. https://cascadewales.org/

​Mae ExChange yn brosiect o fewn CASCADE. Rhwydwaith Cymru-gyfan yw ExChange. Ei nod yw dod â'r holl randdeiliaid o fewn gofal cymdeithasol ynghyd i rannu profiadau ac arbenigedd, ac i ddysgu o'i gilydd drwy adnoddau ar-lein a digwyddiadau rhad ac am ddim. Ein nod yw gwella gwaith cymdeithasol a gwasanaethau gofal cymdeithasol drwy sbarduno trafodaeth a meithrin perthnasau parhaus rhwng pobl â gwahanol fathau o arbenigedd, ar sail ymchwil diweddar a chyfredol. https://www.exchangewales.org/