NASP webinar: Learning from Phase One of the National Cross Government programme: Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill-hea
Wed, 15 Jan
|Webinar
This webinar will share some of the key learning and recommendations from Phase One of the programme, and also describe the priorities and research focus of the current one-year Green Social Prescribing Extension Programme 2024-2025.
Time & Location
15 Jan 2025, 12:30 – 13:30
Webinar
About the Event
In 2021 HM Government launched a two- year test and learn programme to explore how green (nature based) social prescribing could help prevent and tackle the rising numbers of people with mental ill-health. The programme was funded by a total of £5.77m from HM Treasury and national partners NHS England, National Academy for Social Prescribing and Sport England and was led by a collaboration of government department, length bodies, and strategic partners.
This innovative programme, one of the first of its kind in the world, was delivered through seven test and learn sites across England in the newly formed Integrated Care Systems. The sites were funded to develop new and sustainable ways to embed green social prescribing into their local mental health pathways, with a focus on people already experiencing early signs of mental ill-health and those living with health inequalities. Working through partnership with local VCSE nature organisations, the…