Making Tracks project report

8 Jul 2011

This report brings together the results of an external and independent evaluation of Youth Access’ Making Tracks project.

Making Tracks was a three-year project (2008-2011) funded by the Department of Health and supported by Youth Access.

The project aimed to improve services for young adults (aged 18 to 25) who have complex needs by developing better partnership working between GPs, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Young People's Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS) operating in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS).

The report examined:

  1. The difference made by YIACS’ interventions to the social,
  2. Mental and physical health of young adult service users;
  3. The impact of the project on raising awareness of young adults’ needs in local PCT and GP commissioning practices;
  4. The factors which might enable better partnership working between GPs and the VCS.