Nick Bell Design

Early Lab have presented an account of their collaboration with NSFT (Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust), involving the transformation of their mental health service for children and young people, at the third International Youth Mental Health Conference (IAYMH 2015) in Montreal, Canada. The presentation itself was a very collaborative act. On stage were: Early Lab co-founders Nick Bell and Fabiane Lee-Perrella; NSFT Deputy Medical Director (Research) Dr Jon Wilson; Early Lab student team members Matt Ferguson and Delina Evans; and four NSFT service users who are members on the NSFT Youth Council and all participated in the field trip earlier in the year. The conference was a useful opportunity for Early Lab and NSFT project leads to reflect on the success of the 2015 project and think about the kind of project to do together next in 2016. NSFT team leaders expressed the desire to continue working with Early Lab and that the next project will develop the action-research findings of the 2015 project that relate to primary and secondary schools.