✨📲We've been working with researchers at the University of Bristol who have launched Mind Your Feed! It's a free website for young people (aged 13+) to explore how social media algorithms shape what they see online and what it means for their wellbeing. Check it out here: www.mindyourfeed.co.uk

Josephine, a member of the B.Life YPAG shares some of the ways she also looks after her mental health. What are some of the things you do to look after your mental health? 🧠

New episode alert 🎧 In the final episode of the B.Life Podcast "The Wrap-Up", we discuss what it looks like to take care of their mental health as young Black people, the importance of focusing self-care for young Black people in this current time period.

New episode alert 🎧 In this second episode of B.Life Podcast "“Music is Black: self-expression, influence, representation”, we discuss some of the generational shifts in attitudes and content of Black music and the impacts the current climate of music have had on mental health.

In case you missed it 💽 The first episode of the B.Life Podcast "B.Lifers B.Life-ing" was released last week. Out of the topics we discussed, a central theme that came from the discussion was reclaiming narratives, what it means to us and how we do so in our personal lives.

In this first episode "B.Lifers B.Life-ing", we discuss the origins of B.Life project, what it means to reclaim narratives and how we do so in our personal lives, how music can be used as a tool to support mental health challenges and the relationship the B.Lifers have with music.

Introducing the B.Life Podcast! A series of podcast episodes recorded last year with the creators of the B.Life Zine (mcpin.org/project/b-li...)

Celebrate Torchlight! A co‑designed digital app supporting young people awaiting mental health care through shared learning & dialogue This event welcomes everyone interested in youth mental health and co-production. Link below 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrate-...

PsyMetRiC, an app to help clinicians predict the risk of cardiometabolic disorders in young people with psychosis, has been approved for use in clinical settings! The app was developed with key input from young people from our network - Read more here: mcpin.org/psymetric-la...

Content warning: Self harm 🚨New opportunity for a project on sleep and self-harm. Get in touch with @bethjmartin.bsky.social for more info ☺️

1 in 5 young people has a common mental health condition – yet support still too often comes only at crisis point. The #FutureMinds roadmap sets out the changes needed to shift the system towards prevention and early intervention and transform children and young people’s mental health bit.ly/49HOq6S

A PhD researcher from the University of East London is looking to interview young people (aged 13-20) about their vies and experiences of the discharge process from adolescent mental health wards. Express your interest here 👉 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Please do share with your networks!

Researchers at University of Birmingham, Nottingham Trent University, and the NSPCC are looking for young people (16-19) who identify as LGBTQ+ to take part in a one-off interview to understand and better support online blackmail. More info here and below: mcpin.org/research-opp...

Wishing you all an enjoyable festive period from everyone here on the young people's team at @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social 🎄 We're signing off now, we'll be back on 2nd January ready to kick start 2026 with another exciting year of youth involvement and transforming mental health research! 🎉

If you haven’t already, check out the full zine to find out more about the role of the YPAG, and see their creative projects on music & mental health 👉 mcpin.org/project/b-li...

Here are just a few of the things the B.Life YPAG wanted to achieve, from the very personal to the global.

We began with the question: “In an ideal world, with unlimited time and budget, what would we like this project to achieve or represent?” This helped the group decide the project aims and values, and what skills they wanted to develop from being involved.

Here’s more on what they did 🧵 We recruited 8 young Black people from/connected to London with an interest in music & mental health to co-produce the project aims & content. It was a broad brief so we decided to focus on telling this narrative creatively.

Our recent B.Life zine wanted to co-produce & co-deliver a project focused on music & mental health for young Black people – so of course we wanted to get some young Black people involved! The YPAG (Young People’s Advisory Group) was made up of young people living in/connected to London.

For more information and how to register your interest, click the link below! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/x1tD2NExbx

Researchers from the University of Nottingham are looking for young people aged 25 and under to join a PPI advisory group ✏️ You will help to shape research on how teenage experiences relate to personality disorder diagnosis and how support can be offered earlier and more effectively.

Researchers we are working with at Roehampton are looking for young people aged 11-18 to take part in an online survey ✏️ You will help shape a new form for young people to decide what they want to do in therapy. Link to survey below! roehamptonpsych.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨New Opportunity🚨 Mind HFEH are looking for young people to shape a new co-production service for young adults aged 18-25. Click the link below to find out more 👇 mcpin.org/research-opp...

Children’s wellbeing is still in decline, according to @childrenssociety.bsky.social's #GoodChildhoodReport 2025. We back their recommendations to reclaim hope and call for the government to take decisive action to overturn this damaging decline: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/good-childhood

It's now live and in the timeless words of Miles Davis: "We play what the day recommends." Read it now - mcpin.org/project/b-li...

the dual nature of the music to heal and harm, and lots more. The B.Life zine explores the experiences and connections to music and mental health of our 8 B.Life Makers and a member of the B.Life McPin team. Here are the B.Life team!

What does music and mental health mean to you? For our Young People's Advisory Group of young Black people living in/connected to London, it's everything from the links between fashion, music and mental health and self-expression, to the criminalisation of Drill music...

🚨New Opportunity🚨 You can find out more by scanning the QR code in the thread below 👇

🚨New opportunity!! Are you a young person that has been involved in the research process? Get involved in shaping a book all about youth involvement! Find out more below 👇