Thoughtscape – First Stop for your Mental Health and Directory of Commissioned Services
Thoughtscape is a collaborative service offer for emotional wellbeing, resilience and mental health support for children and young people in St Helens. This offer results in easier, early access to support when a child or young person is struggling with their emotional health or wellbeing by delivering a 'no wrong front door’ model.
We are also proud that the name and strapline for this collaboration were created and selected by the children and young people of St Helens.
This offer will provide support and interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health and wellbeing problems including anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties. The three main service delivery partners within this offer are the Resilience Teams (Barnardo’s), Mental Health Support Teams (NHS) and Kooth.
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Online counselling and emotional support for children and young people aged 10-25 |
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Support for young people and their families living with neurodevelopmental conditions https://www.addvancedsolutions.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-in-st-helens.html |
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Counselling for children and young people affected by bereavement or other forms of loss |
Crisis Response Team |
Provides immediate crisis response and management out of hours for individuals who require urgent mental health support 01744 627 618 (Professional Referral) |
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Neurodevelopmental Pathway |
Multi-agency assessment of complex neurodevelopmental difficulties St. Helens Neurodevelopmental Pathway Team Leaflet https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/our-services/st-helens/neurodevelopment-pathway-team 5bp-tr.sthelensneuropathway@nhs.net
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Urgent Mental Health Support Line |
Self-referral for urgent mental health support that’s available 24/7 https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/urgent-help 0800 051 1508
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CYP specialist Mental Health Support – CAMHS and Barnardo’s |
Support for young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties, and their families https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/our-services/st-helens/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-service |
Youth Mental Health Toolkit |
Online kit filled with ideas for young people to embrace taking care of their mental health |
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Young People’s Community Eating Disorder Service |
Assessment, treatment and support for young people with eating disorders and their families |
School Nursing emotional wellbeing offer |
Confidential drop in clinics in secondary schools, interventions and support School Nursing (St Helens) - Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (wchc.nhs.uk) |
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Primary School delivered teaching of emotional awareness and problem-solving skills |
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Offering emotional well-being and resilience support to all secondary aged children and young people. https://www.barnardos.org.uk/what-we-do/services/barnardos-st-helens-resilience-service Barnardo's Resilience Service Referral Form
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Mental Health Support Team
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The Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) will offer consultation to professionals and families and direct intervention with children and young people. The first wave of MHSTs (April 2021) will support the following schools: St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic High, Cowley International College and St Cuthbert’s Catholic High with further rollout planned for the coming years to cover all secondary schools and primary schools. https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/our-services/st-helens/mhst-st-helens
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YMCA Listening Service |
Young Peoples Listening Service for young people aged 12 to 18 offering one to one support for young people aged 12-18 who would benefit from mental health focussed support and/or someone to talk to http://ymcasthelens.org.uk/the-listening-service/
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