World Mental Health Day 2024: A new approach to children and young people’s wellbeing in Wirral

Today is World Mental Health Day. While it’s just a day like every other day, it also gives us a moment to pause; perhaps gives us a nudge to ask someone how they’re doing, reflect on our own wellbeing, or just to acknowledge publicly that life can be tough – but we’re all in it together.

Even though as a wider society, we’ve taken some big strides to be more open about mental health, we’re seeing more and more people struggle. This is especially prevalent with our children and young people, and – whatever’s causing that – it’s clear that what we’re doing isn’t working. This mental health epidemic needs a new brave and innovative approach.

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World Mental Health Day 2024: A Capacity approach to wellbeing

Today is World Mental Health Day. While it’s just a day like every other day, it also gives us a moment to pause; perhaps gives us a nudge to ask someone how they’re doing, reflect on our own wellbeing, or just to acknowledge publicly that life can be tough – but we’re all in it together.
Even though as a wider society, we’ve taken some big strides to be more open about mental health, we’re seeing more and more people struggle. This is especially prevalent with our children and young people, and – whatever’s causing that – it’s clear that what we’re doing isn’t working. This mental health epidemic needs a new brave and innovative approach.

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Capacity Conversations: Gary Leeming

Last week, we interviewed Gary Leeming for the latest in our Capacity Conversations series. Gary is the director of The Civic Data Co-operative (CDC). He’s also a highly respected member of the UK’s civic data community.

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Capacity welcomes Liz Cross as new Chair

Here at Capacity, we’re big fans of using a Theory of Change (ToC) process to sharpen our focus and clarify our goals. We’re excited to share how we recently worked with Local Solutions to create a Theory of Change for a new model of service delivery.

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5 minutes with… Heather Mackelden

At Capacity, we’re proud to have a team that’s a total mix – made up of people from all sorts of backgrounds with all sorts of expertise. In this series, we spend 5 minutes getting to know each member of the team a bit better.

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5 minutes with… Sarah Lee

At Capacity, we’re proud to have a team that’s a total mix – made up of people from all sorts of backgrounds with all sorts of expertise. In this series, we spend 5 minutes getting to know each member of the team a bit better.

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Liverpool Children and Young People’s Partnership

In a perfect world every child and young person in Liverpool would live in safe, stable, happy homes, thrive in a community where they feel like they belong and dream about everything that the future holds. That’s the vision for Liverpool Children’s and Young People’s Partnership (LCYP), a partnership made up of Liverpool City Council, Merseyside Police, Alder Hey, Merseycare, Primary and secondary schools alongside the third sector.

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5 minutes with… Goda Dragunatie

At Capacity, we’re proud to have a team that’s a total mix – made up of people from all sorts of backgrounds with all sorts of expertise. In this series, we spend 5 minutes getting to know each member of the team a bit better.

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