Why do we exist?
As growing numbers of young people are disengaged from education, employment and training in the UK. We are committed to addressing the interconnected barriers that affect young people's mental health, wellbeing, participation and access to opportunities.
We develop flexible and responsive solutions that strenghten support, widen opportunities and help young people influence the systems that shape their lives.
Founded by professionals with extensive experience across further education,wellbeing, mental health and the social enterprise sector.
Breaking the script. Connecting the dots between social mobility, wellbeing and opportunities so that more young people can move forward and thrive.
Creating coordinated, compassionate, evidence- informed pathways to empower young people and enable sustainable positive changes.
Reflective practice
Many providers working with young people are embedding more coherent approaches to mental health, wellbeing and inclusion into their strategies. However, young people can still experience fragmented support, unclear referral pathways and gaps between services.
At Priority Wellbeing and Mental Health UK CIC we work collaboratively with organisations helping them to reflect on what is already in place, to identify where young people may be experiencing difficulties along the way and to strengthen those systems around them.
Our support is tailored to each organisation and may include reviewing their mental health, wellbeing and inclusion assessments, approaches to early intervention in mental health, staff practice, the effectiviness of their current referral system and how to measure outcomes.
Our goal is not to replace existing services but to help them work together in a more coherent way to offer greater continuity and support that responds to the whole person and how effectively support is shaped by the people at the centre of the issue beyond consultations and surveys.
Ownership
The true cost of fragmented support systems is not only measured in missed outcomes or inefficient services but in lost potential, reduced opportunities, and the communities that never fully benefit from what young people could have achieved if they had been supported to thrive.
We believe in real co-production and collaboration with young people. Looking at the well know theory of self-determination, we know that people are more motivated, engaged and likely to sustain positive changes when three basic psychological needs are met: autonomy, competence and relatedness.
Sustainable improvement cannot be imposed from the top down. The most effective services are designed with the people they are intended to support. Participation creates ownership, ownership creates engagement, and engagement drives meaningful change.