Children and Young Peoples service details

What we do:

The ethos of the service is that mental health is 'everyone's business'.
Therefore, the focus is on supporting social workers and carers to improve the young person's mental health and wellbeing, as well as undertaking specialist assessment and intervention where required.

Key features include:

• Consultations to social workers and other
  professionals to ensure that the needs of children/young people are
  understood within the context of their lived experience
• Assessments -These include carers, emotional wellbeing assessments and Initial Mental
  Health assessments.
• Delivery of therapeutic interventions with the
  child/young person following an assessment where a targeted or
  specialist response is required
• Consultation and training for residential staff that draws on attachment theory Nurturing Attachment Training for foster carers Foster carer drop-in sessions to support placement stability (Coventry only)
• Telephone advice and guidance for carers and professionals Support to social workers when they are
  working therapeutically with young people

Our aim is to reduce unnecessary assessments of looked after children and to support themtheir carers and families in a collaborative non-stigmatising manner. To provide this, we support professionals with a consultation meeting in the first instance. At the consultation meeting we will develop a
joint plan for intervention where the child's/young person's needs are understood within the context of the people who are important to them in
their lives.