Powys Children and Young Peoples Bibliotherpy Scheme - Reading Buddy Intervention

Here are some further detaills about the second winner of our 2013 Bursaries programme which each year awards small grants of up to £3,000 to successful applicants from within the primary care mental health sector across Wales.

Our second successful bursary recipient was the The Powys Children and Young Peoples Bibliotherpy Scheme - Reading Buddy Intervention project which is being run by a partnership between CAMHS and Powys Children and Young Peoples Partnership (CYPP) until the end of March 2015.

The project aims to empower children and young people to more effectively communicate their thoughts and feelings and make changes to improve their mental health and well-being.

The overall goal is to produce a prescription "bibliotherapy scheme" which guides children and young people to access self-help material and produce a therapeutic outcome through an increase knowledge and understanding about mental health issues.

Since the programme's inception in 2003 there have been 24 recipients and this year we decided to award this sum to projects which encourage innovation in the local delivery of Part 1 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure and raising awareness of mental health or well-being issues.

For further information about the Powys CYPP project please read and download the following document - The Powys Children and Young Peoples Bibliotherpy Scheme - Reading Buddy Intervention.

Since our Bursary programme's inception in 2003 there have been 24 recipients who have each received up to a maximum of £3,000.

Applications were open to anyone with a link to Primary Care Mental Health in Wales and those able to demonstrate a clear and justifiable benefit in relation to the aims of our bursaries programme.

If you're interested in finding out more about our bursaries please visit our Bursaries section or contact us via email at lhills@rcgp.org.uk or on 029 2050 4516.