Invite to Mental Wellbeing Support Workshop

Following a review of current arrangements for promoting mental wellbeing through a contract with MHNC was undertaken during the summer 2023, and which concluded that these arrangements were no longer sufficiently reflective of local public health priorities, both Councils stated in a letter to the VCSE sector their intentions to align future work on promoting positive mental health and wellbeing and preventing mental ill health with the Northamptonshire Mental Health Prevention Concordat, and NNC & WNC Health and Wellbeing Strategies, to ensure a more strategic approach.

A joint letter from North Northamptonshire Public Health and West Northamptonshire Public Health was issued on 21st February 2024 stating that each Council would be making separate commissioning arrangements going forward, based on considering local needs and the specific prevention investment and delivery arrangements that operate in their respective unitary authority areas. In this letter West Northamptonshire Public Health stated that it was planning a half day workshop on Friday 15th March 2024 – 9:00am – 2:00pm at The Great Hall, St Andrews Hospital, Northampton, to work with the MHNC and wider VCSE sector to co-produce their new service arrangements.

The overall aim of this half day workshop is to inform the development of a service specification and the service delivery arrangements for VCSE to support the mental health and wellbeing of local people, to be commissioned by Public Health. This will be achieved through Public Mental Health colleagues working with MHNC, VCSE Mental Health Thematic Assembly and wider VCSE organisations to co-produce the new service arrangements.

The objectives of the workshop include:

sharing a strategic approach for improving public mental health in the Council area
sharing key priority areas of work programmes, which are evidence-based and cost-effective
sharing some of the principles that will underpin the new service arrangements
outlining proposed timeline for the new arrangements to be in place
co-developing ideas of delivery approaches to address strategic outcomes and priorities

Please click here for further details about the workshop and to book a place.