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In 2012 the Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Project (YMHP) was established as a response to the concerns about mental health vulnerability among young people. The YMHP is intended to promote the mental health and wellbeing of young people (aged 12-19 years) with, or at risk of developing, mild to moderate mental health issues.
The project consists of 26 initiatives designed to operate in a variety of settings in which young people live their lives, such as families, schools, communities, health services and online environments.
The Social Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (Superu) was contracted by the Ministry of Health to undertake a strategic evaluation of the overall YMHP to assess whether, how well, and why the YMHP is progressing towards its expected outcomes.
The evaluation of the YMHP will generate lessons about what interventions work and how to evaluate complex systems for addressing complex problems.
The full Formative Evaluation report presents the findings of the first phase of the evaluation. This document provides a summary of the Formative Evaluation Report for the Youth Mental Health Project.
The summary and the following three reports were all published by Superu at the completion of the formative evaluation phase in May 2015: