New Partnerships This Year
Supporting people with physical & learning disabilities & mental health issues
Whizz Kidz:
Kidz Max Days
Launched in August 2022, the partnership with Whizz-Kidz plans to deliver 12 Kidz Max Days. It aims to reduce isolation, enhance health and wellbeing, improve confidence, increase employability opportunities and build leadership skills.
So far, four Kidz Max Days have taken place across the UK, hosting 256 young wheelchair users and their families for an adventurous day out. This has allowed families to spend time together, meet others and enjoy a day without worrying about accessibility and cost.
When surveyed, 100% of respondents said they would recommend and attend a future Kidz Max Days. The success of the Kidz Max Days has inspired Whizz-Kidz to incorporate elements of them into their monthly clubs. For example, they will have a renewed focus on parent and sibling inclusion and support.
"It changed our ideas about what kind of activities to look for in the future to enjoy as a family."
Three delivery partners focusing on women-only groups and referral from addiction and substance abuse support.
Community-based engagement reached 104,660 people offering mental health support alongside clinical treatment plans.
Mental health services to 14,031 individuals at clinical and non-clinical levels.
CareTech Specialist Services Head Psychiatrist & Managing Director visited the programme sharing their expertise and bringing together experts across Pakistan to discuss mental health.
So far, four Kidz Max Days have taken place across the UK, hosting 256 young wheelchair users and their families for an adventurous day out. This has allowed families to spend time together, meet others and enjoy a day without worrying about accessibility and cost.
When surveyed, 100% of respondents said they would recommend and attend a future Kidz Max Days. The success of the Kidz Max Days has inspired Whizz-Kidz to incorporate elements of them into their monthly clubs. For example, they will have a renewed focus on parent and sibling inclusion and support.
Executive Summary:
Wider Ripples & Innovation
Its partnership with British Asian Trust to tackle mental health has developed over time and is illustrative of the wider ripples enabled. A curriculum for mental health training within medical training in Pakistan has been developed, established and certified, and is starting to be delivered January 2023. The Mental Health Coalition has also been developed by British Asian Trust, with funding from World Health Organisation.
And across the social care sector in the UK, the CareTech Foundation has supported 1,632 people to receive employability and skills development support through scholarships, workshops, mentoring and training this year. Since 2017, it supported 2,514 across employability and skills, with 373 people specifically supported into work.
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Over and above this, its influence and impact on the Championing Social Care initiative and the Social Care Leaders Scheme reflects the broader ripple effects that the care tech foundation has on the social care sector as a whole.
Through the Foundation’s support of the Birkbeck Toddler Lab, Autistica’s Social care Action Fund, the Longitude Prize on Dementia with Alzheimer’s Society, and The Children’s Trust developing new robotics technology, new developments and approaches will be able to be developed. The outcomes of these projects cannot be counted by people supported, but its impacts will be longer term and potentially much more significant.
We look forward to continuing to work with the the CareTech foundation to see the impact, measure and report the impact of these initiatives.
Three delivery partners focusing on women-only groups & referral from addiction & substance abuse support.
Community-based engagement reached 104,660 people offering mental health support alongside clinical treatment plans.
Mental health services to 14,031 individuals at clinical and non-clinical levels.
CareTech Specialist Services Head Psychiatrist & Managing Director visited the programme sharing their expertise and bringing together experts across Pakistan to discuss mental health.