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Table 1 Description of individual projects

From: Innovation in mental health services: what are the key components of success?

 

Working with homeless people with mental health problems

Computer skills for people with dementia

Educating about the subtle abuse of vulnerable people

Taking theatre skills into a secure mental health unit

A mental health self-help kit

The therapeutic use of animation with children

Web-based feedback from service users

Improving service provider communic-ation skills

Working with traumatised refugees and asylum -seekers

User involvement in mental health worker training

Involving users in designing inpatient environments

Brief description of activities

Provision of user defined arts activities to homeless service users

Provision of IT training to service users with dementia

Artist and service user collaboration to produce an informative DVD about the subtle abuse

Provision of arts activities to excluded groups e.g., those within secure mental health units

The production of a prototype mental health self-help kit

This project explored the therapeutic use of animation with vulnerable children

Extension of existing web based feedback system into mental health services

Communication skills workshops and an interactive DVD for use with health professionals

NHS Trust collaboration with city farm providing gardening activities combined with therapy

Buddy scheme between service users and trainee mental health workers

Production of a prototype board game to engage services in the design of inpatient environments

Relation to statutory services

External

External

External

External

External

External

External

Internal

Internal

Internal

Internal

Changes to the hosting of the project

No

No

No

No

No

Yes - moved outside statutory services.

No

No

No

No

Yes - Trust reorganisation

Level of development prior to the NESTA grant

New

New

New

Expansion

Existing

New project

Expansion

Expansion

Expansion

Existing

New

Was the output of the project a product or an activity?

Activity and products

Activity and product

Activity and product

Activity

Product

Activity and product

Product

Activity and product

Activity

Activity and product

Product

Ethos of the project

           

Therapy low/high

Low

Low

Low

Low

High

High

Low

Low

High

Low

Low

USER Inclusion low/high

High

High

High

High

High

High

High

High

High

High

High