Type of service: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Interventions and therapies

Website: http://cwpcamhscentre.mymind.org.uk

CAMH Service for people aged up to 19 in Wirral. The service is provided via locally based teams, who offer, following assessment, intervention based on what the issues are and what the young people and families want to gain. This intervention will be from a broad range of therapeutic practices, consultation and advice. The local teams are: .

• 0-16 Team.
• 16-19 Team.
• Learning Disability CAMHS Team, up to age 16.
• Social Care Partnership Team (support and assessment to young people and families who currently have a Social Worker involved with them; or are in care of the Local Authority).
• Primary Mental Health Workers (community-based mental health support for children and young people up to the age of 16 who are experiencing mild mental health difficulties).
• ChiCC (Children's Centre CAMHS, working directly with families up until the child is aged 2).
• DAAT (Drug and Alcohol Action Team) Partnership.
• Youth Offending Service (a specialist mental health worker provides focused intervention and support for young people who are currently within the criminal justice system).
• MST (Multi Systemic Therapy).
• Columbia Team (working with children and young people up to their 19th birthday who have complex mental health difficulties, providing intensive community based support).
• New Directions (providing intensive support to children and young people at four specialist education placements, to support their engagement in learning).
• Adcote Health/Education Unit (offers a Primary and Secondary setting in which children and young people's emotional/mental health needs in relation to their ongoing educational progress can be assessed. Referrals to this unit can only be made by CAMHS or Partnership teams).

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child

Gender: All genders

Referral Sources: NHS Only

Specialisms: Generic

Other specialisms: Learning disability