New £1.1 million grant to improve well-being of teens in care

Dr Simon P Hammond, lead of UEAHSCP’s Looked After Children’s Mental Health Research Network (LANTERN), has been granted £1.1 million for a project looking at the use of Life Story Work (LSW) for teenagers in care.

This initiative has grown from UEAHSCP seedcorn funding awarded to LANTERN in 2020, leading to an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) grant, and now Simon and the team have secured this large grant via the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HSDR) funding stream.

"I hope that this work and the entire LIMITLESS programme helps young people with care experience to recognise they are not limited by their reasons for entering care, or by their experiences in care, but that they are limitless," says Dr Hammond. "I want all young people with care experience to be able to flourish. They deserve to thrive, not just survive."

For more information, read the full press release on the UEA website.

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