Awards and testimonials
In 2024 the Next Step Cards Team were proud to be shortlisted in the ACAMH Awards 2024, category: Lionel Hersov Memorial Awards. This category sought a practice team that has demonstrated the use of evidence base into clinical practice/or has evaluated the outcome or measures either the clinical impact or demonstrated quality improvement.
The Next Step Cards were Highly Commended in the Patient Centredness category at the Health Service Journal Awards in 2012. In 2019 they won the NHS Parliamentary Awards for the North West of England in the Future NHS category.
Dr Fiona Pender, Next Step Clinical Lead, has presented the resource at conferences such as:
- The British Psychological Society Faculty of Children and Young People
- The Patient Safety Congress
- The New Zealand CAPA Conference
- Thrive Model implementation seminar
- The Anna Freud Centre Evidence Based Practice Unit
- Primary Mental Health Network
- CYP-IAPT Digital Mental Health for Children and Young People
- Improving Mental Health Services for Children and Young People.
The Next Step Cards were also recommended as support for young people as they returned to school after the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns and features in the book “Children and Young People’s Mental Health: Essentials for nurses and other professionals” (McDougall, 2016).
The resource has been commissioned by Beyond Children and Young People's Transformation Programme for Cheshire and Merseyside, NHS Fylde and Wyre, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Wirral Council, Edge Hill University and schools across the North West of England. Over 2,700 people who work with children and young people and have been trained in using the resource.
