5 2020
The stories from My Story, Our Future

1. Stories of stress and coping
2. Seeking a home, a place to belong
3. A story of losing trust
4. A story of rediscovering trust
5. Feeling trapped in a vicious cycle
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This page contains links to the reports we have published. If you want to know more about a specific project please look at the relevant project page in the ‘Our Work’ section of the website. Project pages also provide links to blogs and peer reviewed papers McPin Staff have written based on our work.
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Kent County Council’s Mental Wellbeing Programme
We produced a number of reports based upon a 2 year evaluation of wellbeing programmes. They all contain a theory of change model and a review of impact. Do take a look!
Improving Mental Wellbeing in Kent: Evaluation of Kent County Council’s Mental Wellbeing Programme
Improving Mental Wellbeing in Kent: Evaluation of the Primary Care Link Workers Service
Improving Mental Wellbeing in Kent: Evaluation of the Kent Sheds project
Improving Mental Wellbeing in Kent: Evaluation of Mental Health First Aid
Kent Mental Wellbeing Programme Evaluation: Concept Mapping Report
Kent Mental Wellbeing Programme Evaluation: Concept Mapping Report [Summary]
Suport After Suicide
This is a guide produced by Public Health England which we were commissioned to scope and write.
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Side by Side: A National Evaluation of Peer Support
We completed in 2017 an evaluation of community based peer support, jointly with St George’s University of London. It was commissioned by Mind, and funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Several reports were produced and a toolkit.
There are two short summaries:
side-by-side-early-research-findings-summary short
This report is a full summary of the evaluation and includes an afterword from our peer research team:
side-by-side-early-research-findings
Finally the full report is also available – its over 400 pages long!
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Everywhere and everyone included? Research in NHS Mental Health Trusts in England
Our first piece of policy research was launched in 2017. We wanted to look at the spread of research activity across England and explore if there was any link to NHS patient care quality indicators. What we found is written into our report below:
Everywhere and everyone included?
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Driving Change: Global mental health report
One of the first reports that the Foundation produced was a summary of interviews with NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) around the world about their role in mental health innovation for a health summit organised by the Qatar Foundation. What we found is summarised in the report below:
Birth Companions
We were commissioned by the charity Birth Companions in 2014 to evaluate the impact of their link worker scheme on women.
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SLaM’s Wheel of Wellbeing Evaluation
We have started doing more work with organisations who are interested in using a Theory of Change framework to help them develop their services, and design appropriate evaluation plans to learn lessons from planning, doing and reviewing. One example of this is working with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
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