The new Oxfordshire CAMHS will provide an integrated service with third sector partners that will build community and individual resilience, educate other agencies around emotional wellbeing and mental health, prevention, early consultation, advice, treatment and self-management.
Our third sector partners will support CAMHS provision to add value to the services offered to the local community. These partners include:
Barnardo’s;
Autism Family Support;
Response;
•Oxfordshire Youth;
SOFEA (South Oxfordshire Food and Education Association);
TRAX;
RAW;
Ark T;
Synolos;
BYHP (Banbury Young Homeless Project);
CAMHS in Oxfordshire will work across the different aspects of treatment from early intervention and initial diagnosis, through to support and advice.
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has opened a new facility which will provide a place of safety at Royal Preston Hospital in Central Lancashire. The facility will support young people under the age of 19 who come in to contact with the police and are experiencing mental ill health.
The Rigby Suite is a 24 hour facility that provides place of safety and de-escalation for young people for a period up to 72 hours. The unit will allow staff to conduct a full assessment of any mental health needs and will support signposting on to appropriate services following the assessment including an inpatient admission or community mental health services where required. The Trust has worked in collaboration with service users to choose the name and influence the colour schemes and furniture.
The future of mental health services for children and young people are at a turning point. There is increasing recognition that there is huge unmet need. In the UK only approximately 25% of children and young people with a mental health disorder receive treatment, but demand to access care is increasing. At the same time evidence is building on what treatments are effective. This has not been matched by equivalent research evidence on what service configurations are most effective.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Myplace encourages young people aged 13-24 years old to explore the environment by offering opportunities to participate in eco-therapy based activities. The project enables young people where they can develop new skills, increase their self-esteem, build resilience and improve their own self-confidence. By getting involved in activities outdoors young people can reduce their stress levels, prevent mental health problems and improve their concentration and mood
Early intervention is a fundamental principle in health care and the past two decades have seen it belatedly introduced into the field of mental health. This began in psychotic disorders, arguably the least promising place to start. The steady accumulation of scientific evidence for early intervention has eventually overwhelmed the sceptics, transformed thinking in psychotic disorders and created an international wave of service reform. This paradigm shift has paved the way to a more substantial one: early intervention across the full diagnostic spectrum. 75% of mental illnesses emerge before the age of 25 years, and young people bear the major burden for those disorders that threaten the many decades of productive adult life. The paradox is that young people aged between 12 and 25 years have had by far the worst levels of access to mental health care across the whole lifespan. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, is today (Wednesday) publishing a report looking at the amount spent on “low-level” mental health support for children in England. “Low-level” mental health services are preventative and early intervention services for treating problems like anxiety and depression or eating disorders, such as support provided by school nurses or counsellors, drop-in centres or online counselling services. These services are vital for offering early help to children suffering from mental health problems and can often prevent conditions developing into much more serious illnesses.
Oxford Health officially launch its new Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) model for the Oxfordshire county, which will allow young people, families and carers to make direct initial contact with our services for the first time.
How a service for young people in North Yorkshire works with other agencies to focus on all their emotional wellbeing, substance misuse and mental health needs.
This year has been busy for CWP’s CAMHS services. Ancora House, the new state of the art inpatient centre opened in September and World Mental Health Day marked the official launch of the Next Step goal based outcome resource. The 4D toolkit has also taken off, a therapy resource that helps young people vocalise and manage their feelings, and work continues to develop the existing involvement of young people with lived experience.
The award winning website for CAMHS, mymind.org.uk has now been live for five years and provides useful information for young people and their families using the service. You can now also like @CWPmymind on Instagram, as well as @mymindfeed on Twitter.
A New Models of Care pilot project in CAMHS has launched.
Funded by NHS England the project will be led by West London Mental Health NHS Trust (WLMHT) working in partnership with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). The pilot will trial new ways of managing the pathway to Tier 4 inpatient admissions for North West London’s children and young people.
Sue Moore, Chief Operating Officer at Lancashire Care NHS foundation Trust said:
“We are absolutely delighted to be working with the Wildlife Trust to support vulnerable young people in Lancashire to participate in outdoor activities that can improve their mental health and physical wellbeing. Not only will the project enable young people to contribute towards their local environment but it will enable them to develop new skills, grow in self-confidence and connect with their local communities. On behalf of the whole organisation we’re really excited to see the project develop and look forward to it formally launching.”
The recent announcement by Theresa May of a review of child and adolescent services in England and Wales, and investment in mental health first aid training for schools, should be welcomed by everyone working in mental health. This announcement is made against a backdrop of inadequate funding of mental health services globally and declining funding of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in the UK (a reduction of 5·4% between 2010 and 2015). However, what is the evidence that adolescent mental health services work?.... Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Evidence regarding the association between service contact and subsequent mental health in adolescents is scarce, and previous findings are mixed. We aimed to longitudinally assess the extent to which depressive symptoms in adolescents change after contact with mental health services. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
One year after the launch of the Mental Health Taskforce strategy, the County Durham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Crisis and Liaison Team continue to improve service on urgent care and recovery.
The original ‘experiment’ set to test out a mental health crisis care and liaison service for children and young people, and cut the expected response time from 18 hours to an average of around 90 minutes for all assessments. The team are now working a crisis and liaison model with an up to one hour response to liaison and up to a four hour response to community crisis assessments.
More than 120 students from five secondary schools across Haringey came together at the Pleasance Theatre in March to discuss mental health and emotional wellbeing - an event co-ordinated by a range of local young persons organisations.
The discussions were inspired by play I AM BEAST, written by theatre company Sparkle and Dark, which explores themes of bereavement and loss.
In the UK young people attending child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are required to move on, either through discharge or referral to an adult service, at age 17/18, a period of increased risk for onset of mental health problems and other complex psychosocial and physical changes. CAMHS transitions are often poorly managed with negative outcomes for young people. Better preparation may improve outcomes and experience. This study aimed to co-produce, with young people who had transitioned or were facing transition from CAMHS, a CAMHS Transition Preparation Programme (TPP), deliverable in routine NHS settings.
Our Trust, along with Surrey County Council and Guildford and Waverley CCG, has launched a new service that offers 10-18 year olds a place to talk about things they are struggling to deal with. The Haven, based at the Discovery Centre in Guildford, is open for a two year trial period to give children and young people a chance to meet other young people as well as get help with any difficulties they may have.