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Rollercoaster Family Support have been involved in a number of projects on a local and national level aimed at inclusion of children, young people and their families in mental health care. 

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Past Projects

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Rollercoaster Family & Parent Support

Rollercoaster parent led, professionally supported direct support to families ran for 9 years between 2014-2023 offering:

  • Face to face and digital support groups

  • One to one Peer Support

  • Parent Training

  • Facebook Groups

  • Coproduction and involvement work
     

Funded by Durham County Council Public health and County Durham Clinical Commissioning Group

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Out of the box

This was a two-year funded project which provided an alternative space for mental health support in a corporate box at Durham County Cricket Ground . The project provided 1:1 and group support for families, counselling space, mental health drop in space, alternatives to crisis support, art activities and a space for services to meet with families. The project was coproduced with families

 

Funded by County Durham Clinical Commissioning Group

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Emily’s Gifts

A project developed in memory of Emily Moore, Emily was an amazing, kind and caring young girl who loved to shop and help others.  Working alongside Emily’s family and a community steering group, Rollercoaster coordinated 5 Emily’s Gifts events to enable families to receive a self-help box to support their mental health. Each event was set up as a gift shop to enable young people and families to select the items that would be appropriate to their needs. 

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Funded by community fundraising and County Durham Clinical Commissioning Group

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NHS England Participation Team

Rollercoaster worked with a team of young people, parents, carers and professionals to coordinate  participation and engagement for This May Help Film Project and Getting Through Guides 

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NHS England Children and Young People’s Mental Health Policy Team

Rollercoaster worked alongside the policy team to develop roles and recruit young people and parent/carer lived experience roles in the team.

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NHS England North

NHS England North-Wendy worked as the Participation lead for Mental Health Support Teams in Schools(MHST) working with MHST to deliver training and develop coproduction

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United Voice

Rollercoaster Family Support  worked in partnership with Investing in Children, children, young people and families in County Durham to develop and establish a Children, Young People and Family Led Mental Health Advisory Board. This was a place for families to have their voice heard and make a difference in children & young people’s mental health in County Durham

 

Funded by County Durham Clinical Commissioning Group

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Charlie Waller Trust partnership work

Rollercoaster worked with Charlie Waller Trust (CWT) for 5 years. Wendy was appointed as Parent Lead for CWT her role involved delivering workshops to help people set up parent carer support, developing the PLACE National Network and co-developing the first national parent carer peer support training.  

 

Funded by Charlie Waller Trust

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