Trust Youth Impact Board shaping young people's mental health services
The Trust is celebrating Children's Mental Health Week 2026 during 9 to 15 February.
This year's theme is 'This is My Place', which aims to support the systems around children and young people to help them feel they belong.
Hear how the Trust's Youth Impact Board is shaping young people's mental health services.
You can also read about Rue, a young person who uses our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), who is sharing how CAMHS therapy and school became a place of support through difficult times.
How the Trust's Youth Impact Board is shaping young people's mental health services
In November 2025, the Trust's Youth Impact Board (YIB) was launched, the first youth-led panel, created to make sure young people's voices are at the heart of how the Trust designs, delivers and improves services.
Ruqaiyah Ali, an Advocate on the Trust's YIB and Clinical Governance Admin Assistant shares a blog about the journey of how the YIB became a reality and how young people and health professionals are working together to shape health services and make a difference.
Ruqaiyah says, The creation of the YIB is a moment defining Nottinghamshire Healthcare: a commitment not only to service improvement but to the transformation of how we listen, how we learn and how we co-create care with the people experiencing it most directly.
Read Ruqaiyah's story on the Trust's blog.
You can watch the Youth Impact Board video below.
How CAMHS therapy and school became a place of support through a young person's difficult times
This year's theme for CMHW is 'This is My Place', which explores the vital role that communities, schools and friendships play in our mental health and wellbeing. Rue, a young person who has been supported by the Trust's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) has written a reflective article on how school and CAMHS therapy played a big part in supporting her during Covid, helping her process grief and transition from care back to her family home.
You can read Rue's story on the Trust's blog.
Mental Health Support Teams
During Children's Mental Health Week, practitioners in our Mental Health Support Teams will be going into schools for assemblies and activities talking the CMHW theme 'This is my place' and belonging and how important it is to feel like they belong in school, at home and their community.
You can also watch the video below from our Mental Health Support Team in Gedling who share more about their work supporting children, young people and families with low-level emotional wellbeing needs, such as anxiety, low mood, managing emotions and sleep.
Finding support
If you are a young person or a parent/carer of a young person who needs emotional and/or mental health support, you can get help from a variety of support services which are listed below.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
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