Ask Me How I Am.
Ask Me How I Am.
Ask Me How I Am is here to increase awareness of young people’s experiences of self-harm. Using an award-winning film and workshops for professionals and young people, Ask Me How I Am puts young people’s voices at the heart of how we understand and respond.
Young people worked with a team of health and safeguarding experts and an award-winning creative team to create Ask Me How I Am, an animated film challenging how we think about and respond to self-harm.
The Workshops
Ask Me How I Am provides interactive, in-person workshops developed in collaboration with young people with lived experience of self-harm. The workshops expand understanding and awareness of self-harm and help people work out how to help.
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Available to anyone working with young people (health services, councils, schools or third sector)
Sessions are in-person and last 2 hours
For groups up to 20 people.
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Sessions are in-person
Range of group booking options, up to 30 people
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Learn to deliver the AMHIA workshops to professionals or young people
3 x training videos
Half-day, in-person train-the trainer session
On-going advice and support from experienced trainers and peers
How we got here
In 2021 Fullscope were commissioned by Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Public Health, funded by NHS England under the wider Wave 4 Suicide Prevention funding, to understand self-harm in children and young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
In the first year we recruited twelve young people with lived experience of self-harm and helped them to identify the project’s purpose and goals.
In the second year the young people worked with panels of experts and with a creative team at Boundary Pictures and OhStudio to make the “Ask Me How I Am” film. The following year we consulted with professionals about their learning needs and developed the professionals’ workshop.
Another group of 18 young people joined the project and devised a young people’s workshop.
Since 2023 we have been developing our train-the-trainer programme.
By the beginning of 2026 we had reached 680 professionals and 306 young people with workshops and have a trainer network of 32 people.
Resources
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Fullscope Understanding self-harm in children and young people data and research report 2022.
The Joint Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Suicide Prevention Strategy 2022-2025
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Anna Freud Foundation self-care resources for children:
NCISH: Toolkit for self-assessment based on the NICE guidelines
NESSie IN ED CIC training for schools: Training and Supervision - NESSie IN ED, CIC
NHS Toolkit: self-harm interventions
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Workshops for parents in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough offered by NESSie IN ED, CIC
PinPoint: Cambridgeshire Parent Carer Forum and hub for information, signposting and events for all things SEND, including parent support groups and workshops.
Family Voice: Peterborough Parent Carer Forum, for Parents and Carers of children and young people aged 0—25 years with a disability or additional needs.
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CPSL Mind: STOP Suicide
Resources and Information | STOP Suicide Pledge
Training & Community Talks | STOP Suicide Pledge
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health, University of Manchester.