Young Adults with Complex Emotional Needs Project
Issue Date: 23/5/2022
Funding amount: £97,000
Funding locations: Bedfordshire & Luton
Funding applications return deadline: 23:59 on 26/6/2022
About the fund
As part of its Community Mental Health Transformation Programme, East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is seeking to partner (via its subsidiary, Compass Wellbeing CIC) with one or more third sector organisation to specifically improve care for young adults aged 18 to 25 with complex emotional needs (diagnosable as ‘personality disorder’) across Bedfordshire and Luton to access community activities, Recovery College, education and employment.
We are seeking applications for a ‘Young Adults with Complex Emotional Needs’ provision. Funding of up to £97,000 is available to deliver the project for 12 months and should provide a project specifically working with young adults aged 18 to 25 with complex emotional needs (diagnosable as ‘personality disorder’) across Bedfordshire and Luton to access community activities, Recovery College, education and employment.
Background
East London Foundation NHS Trust (ELFT) has secured a small amount of additional funding in this financial year 2022/23 via a mental health spending review to specifically improve care for young adults aged 18 to 25 with complex emotional needs (associated with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’) across Bedfordshire and Luton to access community activities, Recovery College, education and employment.
There is currently a gap within ELFT’s local services for this cohort and the Trust is seeking to meet it with creative thinking, joint working and planning between Children and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health (AMH) services as well as with wider system partners.
Following an initial exploratory scoping discussion with several Third Sector partners and the ELFT Beds and Luton Adult Complex Needs Service a specification was developed by ELFT for local Third Sector organisations to respond to.
Funding available and timeframes
Up to £97,000 is available from East London Foundation NHS Trust for a 12 month project starting from 18th July 2022.
Eligibility
Multiple organisations may come together to form a collaborative piece of work.
The organisation(s) will be expected to work closely with ELFT Adult Mental Health (AMH) services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) with specific staff to be embedded in ELFT AMH services.
The organisation(s) applying should have experience and expertise in:
• working with young adults aged 18 to 25
• working with people with complex emotional needs
• commitment to partnership working including Recovery Colleges, educational establishments and employment agencies
• strong commitment to employing people with lived experience of mental ill health and trauma and to co-delivering change with people with lived experience of mental ill health
The project should be led by a voluntary, community, social enterprise sector or grassroot group. The successful agency (or agencies) will need to demonstrate that they not only have the appetite but also the ability to deliver the project including managing recent risk, having no gender divide and able to provide a service aimed at the target community.