A new website www.keep-your-head.com is being launched to help children and young people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough tackle mental health issues.
The website, designed with input from children and young people, aims to promote better mental health by providing reliable information about support and advice.
Half of all mental health issues start before the age of 14, and it is estimated that, in an average class of 30 15-year-old pupils, three could have a mental illness. The ‘Keep Your Head’ website brings together a range of reliable national and local information and resources that can help young people and their parents to look after their mental health.
The Suffolk Primary Care Mental Health Service, otherwise known as Wellbeing Suffolk, will provide a range of holistic, tailored services for both children and adults to support their emotional wellbeing.
With extended opening hours from 8am to 8pm during the week, Wellbeing Suffolk will offer people accessible, responsive help before their problems become too great. The new-look service will also provide talking therapies for those with a wider range of mental health problems, so that they can get the support they need within the community, in turn avoiding a referral into specialist services.
NSFT will work with a wide variety of community and third sector organisations to deliver the service, including Suffolk Family Carers, Relate and 4YP, who will provide interventions to boost wellbeing, such as support for carers.
Today we have launched a new publication which showcases projects that promote early intervention in mental health and draws out tips from the commissioners and practitioners involved in their development and delivery.
Open access. The need for an age-appropriate in-patient service for 16- to 17-year-olds led to the development of a 6-bed acute admissions unit in a non-metropolitan county in the UK. We provide a descriptive evaluation of the first 2 years of its operation. All admissions from April 2010 to March 2012 were reviewed, clinical details systematically recorded and descriptively analysed.
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 Education Policy Institute’s Independent Commission on Children and Young People’s Mental Health has released a new report, Time to Deliver, which calls for a new ‘Prime Minister’s Challenge’ on children and young people’s mental health.
Specialist mental health practitioners from our child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) will work alongside school therapy teams to help children with problems such as low level anxiety and depression.
Led by Springwell Academy, the service will see three dedicated mental health practitioners support nine secondary schools across Barnsley. These specialists will train teachers and school therapy staff on how to support children with mental health problems as well as working directly with children themselves.
Project Future helps young people, who are disengaged, excluded, and who may be gang members. We help them get back into education, employment and training, and to engage with mental health services. Project Future also aims to improve young people’s psychological, emotional and physical well-being, and to reduce offending.
A psychological treatment programme offered to teens in Milton Keynes with complex and challenging mental health problems over the past year is showing early signs of success, say CNWL doctors.
An initial analysis of figures for the treatment – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) – show an improvement in the mental health of the young people who have successfully completed the full six-month programme, including a reduction in the rates of self-harm.
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, today (Monday 9 January) delivered the annual Charity Commission Lecture where she announced a series of measures to "transform mental health support".
As part of this, she has asked the Care Quality Commission to lead "a major thematic review of children and adolescent mental health services across the country" to identify what is working well and what is not.
CQC will take forward this work in discussion with other agencies and inspectorates, and expects to report on its findings in 2017/18.
Open access. Linkage of routinely collected data from public services has the potential to improve how local health, education and social care are delivered to children. All mental health services, hospital-based child health services, schools and child protection services which serve the same local area could be more efficient if the design, monitoring, targeting and integration of services were based on data. Health services need evidence from the populations that they serve to plan care and know whether they are meeting children's needs, duplicating effort or allowing some children to fall through the net. In this paper, we describe how the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) programme has joined up data from health, education and social services for children living in four local authorities in South London to create two datasets: one linking hospital to children's mental health services and the second linking mental health data to education data. We describe these resources, give examples of how they are being used to improve services and discuss what is needed to implement this approach more widely across the UK.
Children and young people in North East Lincolnshire can now benefit from online mental health counselling, thanks to partnership working between LPFT and XenZone's innovative Kooth service.
Kooth provides free, year-round support from qualified professional counsellors, available to those aged 11 to 25 and all accessible via a PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
The anonymous, stigma-free service offers immediate support to users straight after registration, with no waiting lists.
Young people in Peterborough and Huntington who need to talk to someone confidentially about problems at home, school or in their relationships can now visit new drop-in sessions called HERE:NOW.
No appointment is needed and young people can access a variety of workshops and activities that help promote their mental health from advice and information, one-to-one counselling, Mindfulness sessions, group work and therapy.
Linkage of routinely collected data from public services has the potential to improve how local health, education and social care are delivered to children. All mental health services, hospital-based child health services, schools and child protection services which serve the same local area could be more efficient if the design, monitoring, targeting and integration of services were based on data. Health services need evidence from the populations that they serve to plan care and know whether they are meeting children's needs, duplicating effort or allowing some children to fall through the net. In this paper, we describe how the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) programme has joined up data from health, education and social services for children living in four local authorities in South London to create two datasets: one linking hospital to children's mental health services and the second linking mental health data to education data. We describe these resources, give examples of how they are being used to improve services and discuss what is needed to implement this approach more widely across the UK. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
In a new report, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has examined the state of child and adolescent mental health inpatient services in England. The analysis explores the latest evidence and NHS data on admissions, quality of care, staffing and capacity.
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.
Jenny, a Clinical Psychologist from our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Bristol, attended multiple groups during her travels including learning about Attachment and BioBehavioural Catchup (a 10-session intervention delivered in the home using video to help parents behave in more nurturing ways towards their child), The Peek a Boo Club, (a group intervention in Melbourne for mothers and young children who have experienced domestic violence) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy training in San Francisco (a 50-session in-depth intervention informed by trauma theory).
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.