MAC-UK’s founding vision was, and remains, to radically transform mental health services for excluded young people. We are on a mission to co-produce better, more inclusive and accessible public services that take what we know works in the mental health clinic, out to meet young people where they are at. We achieve our impact in three main ways: 1. Provision of services to young people in care, custody or in the community; 2. Working in dissemination partnerships to transform the design and provision of services for excluded young people; and 3. Widely influencing through research, publications, conferences, teaching and training. Our Values We are addressing the systems that perpetuate the health, social and economic inequalities experienced by excluded groups. Our values make this possible: Value lived experience - Young people are experts in their own lives and their lived experience holds the value and solutions that public services need. Do with, not to - designing and delivering services together with other agencies and communities to provide support with, rather than to or for, young people and their communities is a better way to achieve outcomes. Build relationships - relationships transform lives because it allows us to understand each other’s worlds, so we are putting relationships back into the science of health and social care.
