CAMHS Community Settings Training for Experts by Experience

About this training

Experts by Experience (EbEs) are those with relevant lived experience or a close family member of someone with relevant lived experience. This training will educate attendees on the National Autism Trainer Programme (NATP) course content which they will then co-deliver alongside a qualified NATP trainer in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) setting.

Please note that specialist or high-level skills are not required to attend the course.

Aims of this training

• To successfully train as an EbE to co-deliver the NATP course in a CAMHS setting alongside an NATP trainer;

• To communicate the barriers experienced by autistic people in a child and adolescent mental health environment;

• To gain an understanding of the value of modelling collaborative, relational and person-centred values, and of promoting a balanced narrative about neurodiversity;

• To practise how to facilitate delivery of slides and animations in settings with a NATP qualified co-trainer.

Who is this training for?

To attend the CAMHS community EbE training, attendees must fulfil the following eligibility criteria:

• Be autistic OR be a sibling/parent of an autistic person who has also experienced additional co-occurring mental health conditions (anxiety, depression, eating disorders, suicidality, psychosis etc.);

• Have experience as a service user of mental health services, residential special education, and/or health and justice services;

• Not be a clinician/practitioner in one of these settings.