A Social Innovation Camp Express on young people and health
We’d like to welcome everyone back after what was for us a rather lovely New Year – hope yours was, too.
What we’re doing
On 25th February in central London, Social Innovation Camp will working with the North East London HIEC on a one-day Social Innovation Camp Express focussed on improving health for young people.
We’re going to bring together about 50 great software developers, designers, healthcare professionals, and some young people to work on some stuff that matters. We’re going to start with 5 questions, which we’ll develop into 5 ready-to-go ideas on the day.
NHS London have agreed to support the winner with a grant of up to £5,000 plus some in-kind support to turn the idea into a reality – so besides having a great day, at least one of the ideas will have the support it needs to become a reality.
Why we’re doing it?
We remember being young, and concerned with our health. Unfortunately, most of the advice we got wasn’t right, either in delivery, content, or tone- it often looked like this:
We didn’t believe that, then, and we don’t now. Therefore, we want to find out what young people think is important, then help them make it happen, using real service design for real people.
How’s that going to work, then?
We’re doing a few meetings with people who work in healthcare as well as young people – we want to find out what both groups think is important, and then get them together to work on those ideas.
Our meetings are fun- we’re going to talk for about 10 minutes, then get down to an exercise where we’ll get everyone talking to each other and working on problems immediately.
These are scheduled for (click the links to sign up):
11th January, UCLPartners, 1700 (Aimed at healthcare professionals)
25th January, at the Livity Offices in Brixton, 1630 (Aimed at young people)
24th January, UCLPartners, 1700 (Aimed at healthcare professionals)
Then, on the 25th February…
We’ll then put out a call for participants – From the ideas and things we discover in our workshops, we’ll put together five questions, and get some teams together to work on them – this will include some of the UK’s best developers, designers, health workers, and clever young people who want to make a difference. We’ll work hard for a day, and then our judges will choose a winner for the day, which will get taken forth.
We’ll do a bit of work with the teams afterwards if there’s something that they want to continue, winners or not.
What are you waiting for? Sign up for one of the events above or get in touch with your questions here or on our twitter @sicamp.
