How can co-production be made a reality in youth work-led mental health?
How real relationships, backed by supportive, resourceful management and funding, create the conditions for effective co-production. Within mental health, there are perennial rallying cries for people who experience mental health difficulties to have greater involvement in the creation of services that provide care, help and support. Termed ‘co-production’, this has been talked about more than actually carried out. Similarly, calls for greater availability of early interventions to prevent the escalation of mental health difficulties grow more strident every year, while complaints grow of...