The launch of an innovative collaboration between Sandwell CAMHS and arts organisation Hospital Rooms was celebrated at a special event in central London this week.
Nicky Mountford, service manager at Sandwell CAMHS, and Bea Hughes, senior art therapist at BCHFT, attended the official launch at the Groucho Club in London on 27 March.
It comes as Sandwell CAMHS has teamed up with national organisation Hospital Rooms to transform the Lodge Road building in West Bromwich to make it a more inviting, exciting and therapeutic environment for young people and their families who are using the service.
The year-long project will see young people in Sandwell work with artists through a series of workshops, which will lead to the creation of unique art work that is specially created for Lodge Road.
The team wants to encourage as much participation as possible in the creation of the art so that the finished artworks reflect the Sandwell community and for young people to feel they have contributed to a legacy that will benefit people for years to come.
As the project gets underway, free art workshops are taking place at Lodge Road in the Easter holidays for children and young people in Sandwell to get involved.
The sessions take place from Monday 3 April to Wednesday 5 April, for young people aged 0-18 years old.
For more information and to sign up to a workshop, visit: https://hospital-rooms.com/sandwell-camhs