Laver Fawcett, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9924-1319, Wood, Nick and Southwell, Ellenor (2021) An Independent evaluation of the Keeping Families in Mind Service. Project Report. York St John University.

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Abstract

Keeping Families in Mind (KFIM) is funded by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust following a successful application to the Covenant Fund Families in Stress. Patel et al (2017) reported that it was clear from the ‘Call to Mind’ reports ‘that the needs of [military] families are not being adequately recognised or addressed and that this is a gap in current provision across the UK’ (p.46). In response to this identified need, the Keeping Families in Mindservice aimed to work with families in the Sheffield area, offering one-to-one counselling, group anger management, mental health and wellbeing activities and a volunteer skills building programme. They planned to work closely with Armed Forces Welfare Officers, and to offer a bespoke programme of
interventions, tailored to build resilience and discourage dependency.When Sheffield Mind applied for funding to develop and deliver this service they had to plan for
an independent evaluation of the service as part of the funding agreement. The evaluation aimed to discover whether or not the service has been beneficial for families of serving and veteran personnel. The evaluation was conducted to inform decisions about whether the KFIM service
should be continued.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Status:	Published
School/Department:	School of Science, Technology and Health
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7083

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