A new mental health awareness scenario has been added to the courses on offer at SkillZONE, Gloucestershire’s safety education centre.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week, so 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and SkillZONE are pleased to be able to launch this module for young people across Gloucestershire, to raise awareness of positive mental health and wellbeing.
SkillZONE, in Tuffley Lane, Gloucester, is a state-of-the-art life-size village, which provides a fully interactive learning environment to teach people of all ages how to recognise dangerous situations and stay safe.
Kathryn Charlesworth, a social inclusion development worker with 2gether, has been involved in putting the new scenario together. She explained: “We’d been involved in incorporating mental health awareness into a similar project in Hereford and wanted to make it Trust-wide by including it at SkillZONE.
A new partnership of healthcare providers, including AWP, has been selected as the preferred bidder to deliver community health services for children and young people. The services will run in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset and are due to begin in April 2017.
The services will include health visiting, school nursing, child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS), speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, community paediatricians, community nursing and a range of dedicated services for vulnerable children including children in care, children with learning disabilities, children with life limiting conditions and children with drug and alcohol problems.
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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.
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Sixty new volunteers will be recruited to support and improve the emotional wellbeing of young people with mental health needs, thanks to £65,000 of funding.
The funding has been awarded to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and Mind, following a successful bid to the Health Education England Children and Young People’s Mental Health Innovation Fund.
It will be used to establish a volunteer scheme to recruit, train and support adults to work with young people who have been referred to Pennine Care’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Up to 60 new adult mentors will be recruited to provide emotional wellbeing support and help young people to manage and look after their own mental health, before, during and after their treatment with CAMHS, by being someone they can talk to.
The Health Committee hears from experts, officials and representatives of child and adolescent mental health charities at a single evidence session on Tuesday 21 November.
West London Mental Health Trust is delivering an innovative new pilot programme to provide better integrated mental healthcare for children and young people in crisis.
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.
ChatHealth now receives on average one or two text messages per week. Due to the low number of text messages we have made the decision to cease the service and utilise our resources more effectively in delivering tailored support to schools’ individual needs.
Cumbria County Council is in the process of reviewing the online emotional support offer that will be available for young people; in the near future more information will be circulated as appropriate.