How can we effectively implement and sustain our design?

The main sponsor of Kailo in the local area. They will typically be an existing leadership forum within a local authority or health system. They are responsible for championing Kailo across the local area, establishing governance arrangements, and identifying and ensuring necessary resources are in place to establish Kailo activities.

The Coordinator plays a pivotal role in mobilising people and resources, supporting and actioning decisions from the Leadership Table, facilitating early discovery, facilitating or engaging partners to undertake deeper discovery and co-design activities, and working across the system to support implementation of strategies, policies and practices. This is a substantial and skilled role, requiring at least 0.6FTE over a 12-18 month period.

The Leadership Table comprises the Kailo Champion, Fiscal Sponsor, and Coordinator(s) as well as key leadership across public services and local communities. This may be an existing forum, or a newly formed one. They determine priorities, resource allocation decisions and sign-off on key strategies and policies – engaging with and being held accountable by local community and youth voice forum.

A broad an evolving coalition of community and public service partners with a stake in addressing the social determinants of young people’s mental health. Through varied convenings and forum, they provide insights, ideas, challenge, and support around emerging areas of focus. They identify and engage key stakeholders, assets, and resources to support in the co-design and implementation of policies, strategies, and practice.

A diverse group of young people that bring their experience, expertise and perspectives in appraising emerging priorities, opportunities, and decisions of the Leadership Table. They provide input and critical review, working to ensure that emerging priorities are meaningful and relevant to young people in the local community. This may be a newly formed or existing forum.

A diverse group of young people, community professionals, policy makers and commissions, who in smaller subgroups and combined gatherings, work together to dig deeper into local priorities and co-design local strategies, policies and practices. ‘Small Circles’ are formed around emerging priority areas, working intensively over two-to-three-month periods.

A couple of small groups of young people may be employed or recompensed on a part-time basis to support the Kailo Coordinator through various phases of Kailo. This helps maintain a strong youth-centred approach, as well as supporting wider youth and community engagement.

Depending on the nature of emerging priorities, local community partners who hold specific expertise or positions within the community may be engaged to co-lead specific lines of community enquiry or co-design. 

Evidence and insight functions may be engaged to support at various points. This may include synthesis or collection of new data on young people’s mental health, supporting synthesis and analysis of community research, or undertaking rapid evidence reviews to inform co-design activities. These functions may be sourced from insight functions within public health or health system teams, or from local research or university partners.