SEND local offer services - Developmental Paediatrics
Parents/carers
- Parents in Mind
Service offer:
Parents in Mind are a ‘parent-to-parent’ support.
This service provides free peer support for women and birthing people who are experiencing low mood, anxiety, isolation and poor mental health during pregnancy and/or within the two years after birth.
It is delivered by parents and volunteers who have closely supported or themselves experienced poor mental or emotional health during pregnancy and/or early parenthood, who are now well, and can offer time to support someone else currently experiencing similar problems. No formal previous diagnosis is required – by volunteer or service user.
We are not clinicians, health advisors or therapist – we simple offer parents a safe, judgment-free & filter free space to offload the full feelings of parenthood.
Face-to-face groups and private one-to-ones can be accessed within the community and/or virtually to suit and enable all parents access to PIM support.
Contact and access:
The service tries to engage with parents wanting support within the week, with support able to begin the following week if they choose.
The service accepts self referrels: - Padlet link for mum
- Parents in Mind: Dads & Partners service in St Helens
Service offer:
Group support, 1-1, walk and talks, creative sessions and group challenges.
Within St Helens we now offer a range of peer support options and a reflective parenting programme to any active care giver to a pregnant person or a baby under 2 – that may be dad, partner, grandparent or anyone actively involved in raise a little one.
The emotional wellbeing of dads is often overlooked when it comes to providing support and care during the perinatal period. Whilst we can now recognise more widely that this time can prove challenging for mums’ mental health, becoming a father can also be a particularly challenging and vulnerable time too. Fathers may go on to develop perinatal mental health issues, either as a result of their partner's illness or independently.
Our team leader Pete, has created a series of podcasts exploring some of the challenges that dads can face when becoming a parent - NCT’s 'Being Dad' podcasts are available to all to be shared, they focus on helping connect dads with conversations from; dealing with changes in relationships, to the pressures and challenges dads face. These podcasts are honest reflections from dads who have been there. Sharing their own experiences, these dads talk openly about how they felt in the early days of becoming a parent.
Contact and access:
A safe place to talk about our mental health and being a parent. (padlet.com)
parentsinmind.nw@nct.org.uk or 07562 207644 (nctparentsinmind) (padlet.com)
Parents in Mind - Halton and St Helens | NCT
- Listen 4 Change
Listen 4 Change is a Parent Carer Forum. A Parent Carer Forum is a group of parent carers who work with Local Authorities, Clinical Commissioning Groups, education settings, health providers and other providers to make sure the services that they plan and deliver meet the needs of children, young people, and their families. There are Parent Carer Forums all over England and we are funded by a grant from the Department of Education (DfE).
Contact through the website: Home (listen4change.org)
- ADDvanced Solutions
Support with strategies for behavioural and mental health support
Through community-based groups, programmes, and opportunities that raise awareness; develop skills; share learning experiences; and build confidence, we support children, young people, and families living with neurodevelopmental conditions, learning difficulties, and associated mental health needs.
Family Learning Programmes and Workshops
Structured programmes and workshops that give parents, carers, and supporters the skills, knowledge and confidence to enable you to better recognise, understand and meet the needs of your family living with neurodevelopmental conditions, learning difficulties and associated mental health needs
Family Learning Programmes and Workshops | What We Do | Community Network | ADDvanced Solutions
Family Activity Days
Join us and other families on our family activity days. Taking place during school holidays they include trips to the park, fun days, walks with the ranger, cookery activity days and days out.
Evening Awareness Raising Workshops for Parents/Carers
To better recognise and support the needs of a child/young person living with a neurodevelopmental condition.
Evening Awareness Raising Workshops for Parents/Carers
To better recognise and support the needs of a child/young person living with a neurodevelopmental condition.
Open Access Community Network Groups | What We Do | Community Network | ADDvanced Solutions
What's on in St Helens | Our Offers | Community Network | ADDvanced Solutions
Contact us | Community Network | ADDvanced Solutions
Parents/Carers and Professionals | Resources | ADDvanced Solutions
- GET IT ON
A Parent guide to sex and relationships.
Online resource for support in navigating ocversations about sex as a parent.
The webpage includes:
- Parents guide to pornography
- Parents guide to the law
- Parents guide to the sexual health clinic
- Parents guide to relationships
- Puberty
- Online safety
- LGBTQ: Support What about the parents and carers of LGBT people? (getiton.org.uk)
The service offers OTR, a closed group for parents of Trans* and Non-Binary children and young people.
General information can be found at: Sexual Health - Get it on Parent Page
Urgent mental health
- Urgent Mental Health Support Line
Service offer:
If you or somebody you know of is in crisis, you can call the Urgent Mental Health Support Line at any time. The Crisis Response Team will still be available for face-to-face support if essential - risk assessments will be undertaken regarding these cases.
Contact and access:
Accessible to all ages in need of Urgent Mental Health support.
Contact number 0800 051 1508 - accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- SHOUT test service
Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope. They support people who are anxious, stressed, depressed, suicidal or overwhelmed and who need immediate support.
Accessible to all ages.
- The CAMHS Crisis Response Team
Service offer:
The CAMHS Crisis Response Team provides immediate crisis response and management out of hours for individuals who require urgent mental health support. With contact and follow-up care plans co-ordinated by the team.
Contact and access:
Children and young people up to the age of 18.
Professional referral:
A professional can contact the CAMHS Response Team every day until 9pm. After 9pm, see Urgent Mental Health Support Line.
Mental health
- Kooth
Online Counselling and Support for 11 to 25 year olds.
Service offer:
Kooth is an online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people, accessible through mobile, tablet and desktop. This service is anonymous and free at the point of use.
There is also a wealth of useful support and information, the ability to be creative and share your experiences and moderated forums to discuss with others who may be feeling the same.
Contact and access:
Self-referral
You can access this online via the website at www.Kooth.com 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Counsellors are available from: Midday to 10.00pm Monday to Friday, 6.00pm - 10.00pm at Weekends.
- Papyrus
Service offer:
This UK charity is dedicated to preventing suicide in young people and promoting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The service offers resources and a free, confidential 24 hour HOPELINE for a non-judgmental space to talk about mental health with a trained advisor.
Contact and access:
Papyrus UK Suicide Prevention | Prevention of Young Suicide (papyrus-uk.org)
- Barnardo’s - Barnardo’s resilience
Emotional wellbeing support for young people in secondary school
Service offer:
The service provides wrap around emotional health and wellbeing support for all St Helens Secondary Schools and Primary Care Networks with a lead professional as a main contact for each. Children and young people can access school-based drop-in sessions, face to face or online evidence based therapeutic group work and 1:1 brief therapy. Parent support can be accessed through 1:1 consultation and live and/or recorded webinars. They also support and develop the whole school approach with training and consultations for educational staff. The aim is to strengthen prevention work, provide evidence based early interventions that build resilience and signpost to local provision ensuring timely access to specialist services where required.
Contact and access:
Self-referral and Professional referrals accepted including referrals by the young person, parent/carers or schools
Online referral form can be found on the following webpage: www.barnardos.org.uk/what-we-do/services/barnardos-st-helens-resilienceservice or through the school based drop-in service.
Monday – Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm
sthresilience@barnardos.org.uk
www.barnardos.org.uk/what-we-do/services/barnardos-st-helens-resilienceservice
- Barnardo’s - Boss
Therapeutic service for children and young people up age 5 – 19-year-olds
Service offer:
Barnardo’s BOSS is based in St Helens, Merseyside and is an Early Intervention Emotional Health and Wellbeing service, working alongside St Helens CAMHS service. The service supports children and young people through a range of therapy including counselling, art and play therapy and solution focussed interventions, and group work.
Therapies, consultations, and sessions offered face to face, via telephone or virtually.
Contact and access:
A shared referral form needs to be completed by a professional
- Barnardo’s PATHS programme
The PATHS® Programme for Schools is a programme for educators and counsellors designed to facilitate the development of self-control, emotional awareness and interpersonal problem-solving skills. The programme consists of a variety of lessons, and additional materials and charts.
Contact and access
The service supports children who attend a school enrolled in the programme
Referrals are submitted by participating schools
PATHS | Barnardo's (barnardos.org.uk)
PATHS® Childhood Development Programme for Schools | PATHS® UK | PATHS (pathseducation.co.uk)
- CAMHS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for children and young people up to the age of 18 years old
Service offer:
Working in tandem, CAMHS and Barnardo’s work with young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties, and their families. They provide specialist face to face therapies, including whole family holistic therapy, and also offer telephone consultations and virtual sessions. Other therapies include counselling, art and play therapy and solution focused interventions, and group work.
Contact and access:
A shared referral form needs to be completed by a professional
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service :: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Mental health support teams
Therapeutic intervention for young people.
Service offer:
This resource has two teams currently allocated to St Helens. The Mental Health Support Teams will provide mental health support in the school setting with specific training from Health Education England. They offer CBT and other talking therapies in one-to-one and group formats and work in tandem with the Resilience Teams Service.
The service supports all school age children and young people up to the age of 18 years within schools who have been part of the Mental Health Support Team roll out.
Contact and access:
Professional referrals only
Mental Health Support Teams in Schools :: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Listening ear
Service offer:
Counselling for children/young people experiencing Bereavement/Loss, Family Breakdown or Domestic Abuse. Services also have access to an Emotional Youth Club which can be accessed by individuals during and after their treatment
Contact and access:
To make a new referral, complete a simple online form at: https://listening-ear.co.uk/refer/counselling
We believe in the transformative power of counselling - Listening Ear (listening-ear.co.uk)
- Worth it
Service offer:
Enables schools to support pupils and students with wellbeing to raise resilience, help them flourish and protect against mental health problems now and later in life.
Wellbeing toolkit, including online training, for all schools and colleges in St Helens
Contact and access:
For all schools and colleges in St Helens
- Youth service #Growyourhappy
Service offer:
Young people have helped to shape a new wellbeing support kit called #GrowYourHappy. The online kit is an easy to digest page filled with ideas for young people to embrace taking care of their mental health. It includes everything from playlist recommendations to links to resources to get specialised help. It takes a positive look at the things young people can do to take care and look after their mental wellbeing.
The online space which is a pamphlet has been created by the Youth Council of St Helens and has been tailored by young people for young people including suggestions of how to be kind and positive messages to inspire your day.
Contact and access:
Available to any young person looking for emotional wellbeing support created by other young people
You can see the work of the young people and join your messages and tips online at https://padlet.com/StHelensYC/growyourhappy
Wellbeing
- ADDvanced Solutions
Service offer:
Supporting children & young people
1:1 coaching support for young people aged 12-19 living with a neurodevelopment condition who find it difficult to engage with activities will help them overcome these challenges, learn how to better recognise and manage negative behaviours and develop strategies to manage in individual situations, to keep themselves safe and make positive choices.
Contact and access:
Contact via the website:
- School Health Nurses (ages 5-19)
Service offered:
Weekly confidential drop in at secondary schools and termly at primary schools. Support for initial concerns regarding low mood, thoughts of self-harm, concerns regarding bullying, weight issues.
School nurse will devise a plan and or referrals made and ask to follow a young person up each week. During lockdown – school nurses have been telephoning young people.
Contact and access:
Referral from school – School Nurse will arrange to see the young person
At secondary schools, drop is available for all school children.
Drop ins are advertised by the school for young people/ parents/ carers to attend
Schools have School Nurse referral form if they require support from the school health service
Mental Health Role- Education and support for 0-19 practitioners when working with children/young people and parents that with emotional/ mental health concerns
BMH Role – Emotional resilience for children identified as needing additional support by school.
School Nursing (St Helens) - Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (wchc.nhs.uk)
- St Helens Well Being Service
Service offered:
Provide advice in support for general wellbeing including the 5 Ways to Wellbeing which are 5 simple things that can help children and young people boost their wellbeing and feel good
Contact and access:
https://www.sthelenswellbeing.org.uk/services/kid-zone
Self-Referral
- Community Eating Disorder Service
Service offer:
This service provides assessment, treatment and support for young people with eating disorders and their families. It aims to promote the early detection and treatment of eating disorders through a combination of one-to-one support and family therapy, along with support from a qualified dietitian. The service also offers group sessions and virtual contact to suit the needs of the individual.
Contact and access:
Children and young people aged 8 to 18 who have symptoms of an eating disorder
Eating Disorder Service for Children and Young People :: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- GET IT ON Teen Advice Zone (TAZ)
Service offer:
The service offers confidential sexual health support.
If you're aged 13 to 19 we can offer you FREE:
Contraception (contraceptive pill, implant, injection, patch, coil and condoms) and advice about which type is best for you
Emergency Contraception (the Morning After Pill) to prevent unwanted pregnancy (available for up to 5 days after unprotected sex).
Pregnancy testing and guidance on your options and next steps if you think you may be pregnant
Testing for some sexually transmitted infections, including Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea, HIV and Syphilis
Condoms
Information, advice and guidance about ANYTHING to do with sexual health, including questions about relationships, puberty, periods, body changes and growing up. There's no such thing as a silly question!
Contact and access:
Looked after children
- Barnardo’s – EHWB Support to fostering placements
Service offer:
Therapeutic support for foster carers and foster children
The service can provide direct counselling to the foster carers and/ or the fostered child. They can also provide therapeutic parenting support to foster carers and advice and guidance to the fostering team and Local Authority Social Workers to maintain placement stability.
The service also provides recruiting, training, and supporting foster carers to provide temporary care, day care and short-term placements for children.
Contact and access:
EHWB Support to Fostering Placements | Barnardo's (barnardos.org.uk)
- Titanium
Service offer:
Titanium offers whole family long-term emotional support to Children Looked After and their Foster Carers with the aim of supporting placement stability. Support can last for up to a year and we work closely in partnership with other agencies in order to provide systemic support.
Contact and access:
Referrals must be made through the St Helens Multi-Agency Emotional Wellbeing Panel. Self-referrals are not accepted.
Looked After Children & Carers - Listening Ear Merseyside (listening-ear.co.uk)
Social communication/behaviour
- The Neurodevelopmental Pathway
Service offer:
The Neurodevelopmental Pathway Teamwork assess children and young people with complex neurodevelopmental difficulties, who require a multi-agency assessment to gain a better understanding of their needs. This process may or may not lead to a formal diagnosis, but will inform an appropriate care plan to meet the specific needs of the individual going forwards
Contact and access:
Referrals must come from professionals.
Neurodevelopment Pathway Team :: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- LASCS Local Autism and social communication service
Service offer:
LASCS offer a diverse range of support which includes:
- Training for schools and other professionals
- Attendance at school reviews, multi-agency meetings, school’s Planning and Consultation Meetings
- Assessment of children and young people with autism and social communication difficulties
- Interventions based on good practice
- Modelling good practice in schools
- Advice and consultation for education staff in schools and colleges
- Specialist advice for Education, Health and Care assessments
- Enhanced Transition
- Listen to voices of children and young people
- Person Centred approaches at KS3/4
- Advice and support for families
- Sign posting
Contact and access:
- Referrals are encouraged through schools
- Referral forms are held in all schools
- Parent/carers resident in St Helens can self-refer using the Cygnet referral form
- ADDvanced Solutions
Service offer:
Supporting children & young people
1:1 coaching support for young people aged 12-19 living with a neurodevelopment condition who find it difficult to engage with activities will help them overcome these challenges, learn how to better recognise and manage negative behaviours and develop strategies to manage in individual situations, to keep themselves safe and make positive choices.
Contact and access:
