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Our engagement with adolescents and adults during the INSPIRE project highlighted the difficulties policymakers, health planners, and service providers have integrating new interventions for young people into existing services. While resources exist that say what adults should do to include young people in the process of developing and integrating youth mental health interventions, they do not provide examples, activities or other tools to guide them on how to do it. 

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The SUMMIT project (Scaling-up co-designed mental health interventions for teens) focuses on this challenge. We aim to develop an effective and useable tookit to guide stakeholders through the process of adaptation and integration of youth mental health interventions. This will be done in partnership with adolescents, their caregivers, and health and policy professionals in Kenya and Mozambique. The agreed toolkit will then be tested through the adaptation of the Thriving Mamas programme for delivery in Mombasa (Kenya) and Tete City (Mozambique). During the project, qualitative and quantitative data will be collected to better understand participants' experiences of engaging in co-design activities, the utility and comprehensiveness of the operational toolkit, and the perceIved feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of the Thriving Mamas programme in a new, urban setting.

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Recruitment is set to start in late September/early October 2025.

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