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Key Insights and Progress Across the Attune Project’s Work Packages
Sana Batool 01/11/2024 Sana Batool 01/11/2024

Key Insights and Progress Across the Attune Project’s Work Packages

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Youth-Informed Research on Mental Health - Insights from ATTUNE’s Writers Retreat in Newquay 
Sana Batool 24/07/2024 Sana Batool 24/07/2024

Youth-Informed Research on Mental Health - Insights from ATTUNE’s Writers Retreat in Newquay 

The Writers Retreat showcased the incredible creativity and analytical thinking that young people contribute to the field of mental health research.

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How gaming could have a positive influence on young people's mental health
Sana Batool 07/02/2024 Sana Batool 07/02/2024

How gaming could have a positive influence on young people's mental health

An image of Cosy Den game

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Participatory Art Brings Young Participants with ACEs Come Together at ATTUNE 
Sana Batool 20/11/2023 Sana Batool 20/11/2023

Participatory Art Brings Young Participants with ACEs Come Together at ATTUNE 

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The Transformative Power of Art: Podcast with Anna Mankee Williams
Sana Batool 20/11/2023 Sana Batool 20/11/2023

The Transformative Power of Art: Podcast with Anna Mankee Williams

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Podcast: Artful Navigation with Jack Hanrahan
Sana Batool 31/10/2023 Sana Batool 31/10/2023

Podcast: Artful Navigation with Jack Hanrahan

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ATTUNE x Aardman Animations: New video focuses on young people's mental health
Sana Batool 10/10/2023 Sana Batool 10/10/2023

ATTUNE x Aardman Animations: New video focuses on young people's mental health

Release of ‘Just Surviving’, a collaboration with ATTUNE x Aardman Animations.

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‘There's never been a more difficult time to be young'
Simran Sansoy 02/10/2023 Simran Sansoy 02/10/2023

‘There's never been a more difficult time to be young'

Uni of Oxford blog post on ATTUNE’s first Impact and Dissemination Conference at Wadham College, Oxford, 2023

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Alicja Kowalczyk 11/03/2019 Alicja Kowalczyk 11/03/2019

Blog Post Title Three

It all begins with an idea.

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Alicja Kowalczyk 11/03/2019 Alicja Kowalczyk 11/03/2019

Blog Post Title Four

It all begins with an idea.

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Why We're Here

Because we’ve lived through things no one should.
Trauma, mental health struggles, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have shaped our lives—yet our voices are often left out of the decisions that affect us.

Over four years, ATTUNE worked with hundreds of young people, aged 10 to 24, across England. Together, we asked:
What if every decision that affects young people considered trauma?

That question became a policy ask—one we’re developing with the aim of presenting it to government.

In Cornwall, we brought that idea to life through something visual and powerful. Supported by Young People Cornwall, we used art to transform pain into purpose—and made our message impossible to ignore.

Who We Are

We are young people from Cornwall who have been part of ATTUNE from the start.
We’ve lived through adversity, trauma, and mental health struggles—but we are not defined by those things.

Working alongside Young People Cornwall, we helped shape a policy ask:
To assess the trauma impact of all decisions that affect young people.

We chose to express this through art. Together, we created work that reflects our lived realities—alongside a logo and slogan that now symbolise this movement.

Our broken infinity symbol reminds decision makers:

"The choices you make can interrupt our lives. Thank you for caring enough to reconnect and reset how we approach young people and trauma."

Our designs will feature on merchandise, documents, and in future campaigns.
This is us saying:
We won’t be ignored. Nothing about us, without us.

The ATTUNE Project

ATTUNE is a Medical Research Council funded project under the Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind Programme.

The project will run from September 2021 to August 2025.

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