Improving sustainable access to high-quality primary and community care mental health care interventions: an asset-based community development approach. (ISACC-ABCD)

Current research infrastructure including, capacity and capability An institutional gap analysis has profiled high quality research across the university conducted by researchers in areas related to children and young people's mental health and asset-based community development.

However, this has occurred in relative silos with clear opportunities for developing a more coherent Team Science approach to strengthen the effectiveness of mental health research across the University.

Expansion will enable us to build on these collaborations extending them to further develop multidisciplinary research and establish new interdisciplinary work to accelerate research growth.

Karkou has worked with Liverpool lighthouse, an organisation led by the black community in the north of Liverpool, as well as Tate Liverpool and Liverpool Philharmonic for several years, connecting childrens mental health services with hospital provision and vice versa.

The Arts for the Blues project that she leads is informed by arts psychotherapy, an AHP profession largely underrepresented in the North West [1].

This model of work has been scaled up to services in the North West with funding from UKRI/AHRC and is currently offered through CAMHS services in North West NHS trusts, community organisations and schools, as a group psychological intervention.

Its creative and innovative character widens current provision, mobilises participation and makes an important contribution to addressing the diverse needs of children and young people in the North West, with interventions tailored to their specific needs.

Liverpool is an early career researcher who's work focuses on understanding and facilitating the co-production and evaluation of suitable digital mental health interventions for children and young people through multi- and interdisciplinary methodologies.

Liverpool received an NIHR ARC Fellowship to develop skills in conducting patient and public involvement activities with CYP, using creative methodologies to incorporate technology to support mental health and wellbeing.

Liverpool is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and holds an honorary research fellowship at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.

Liverpool s research also focuses on identifying and supporting the mental health needs of underrepresented and under-resourced communities, including ethnic and sexual minority groups, and CYP from low- and middle-income countries.

Howarth has worked across a range of disciplines, agencies, and organisations to support the development of an evidence base for social prescribing.

Latterly, Howarth has led two learning partnerships with Barnardo's focused on the use of non-clinical interventions and services that support CYP, families and mental health.

Howarth is a member of the national social prescribing network, the national CYP Social Prescribing Steering group and the Global Social Prescribing Alliance and is working with colleagues from 16 countries to develop innovative research to delineate the impact of social prescribing on CYP mental health.

Irving s research focuses on the epidemiology and management of mental-physical multimorbidity including long-term mental and physical conditions across the life course.

Current work is developing approaches for evaluating social care assets and utilisation in large integrated routine datasets in primary, secondary and social care such as CIPHA.

His work also explores the development of complex interventions for long term conditions in primary and community care setting.

Irving leads the Deep End Cheshire & Merseyside region which focuses on action to reduce health inequalities in primary care.

Smith has worked with Everton in the Community, the official charity of Everton Football Club, since 2013 with expertise in the translation of findings into practice and policy. A key project, Tackling the Blues, aims to improve t