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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.