Working together to improve mental health for children and young people (C&YP)
In Renfrewshire a range of services are delivered by the HSCP and partners to support children, young people, families and unpaid carers in relation to children and young people's mental health and wellbeing.
- Renfrewshire Integrated Children's Service planning partnership including third sector organisations, to support the development of the REN 10 service.
- Renfrewshire Council and NHS GGC to take forward The Promise, ensuring our care experienced young people are listened to and receive the best possible support.
- Renfrewshire Council Education Services to embed the School-based Counselling Service, and with Third Sector organisations to develop evidence-based interventions for children and young people.
Renfrewshire HSCP provides a range of services including:
- Specialist: Our CAMHS team, a tier 3 specialist service, works to ensure that children and young people up to age 18 with moderate to severe mental health difficulties are identified and have access to appropriate assessment, interventions and treatment.
- Targeted: Introducing the school nursing mental health and wellbeing pathway to quickly identify children experiencing poor mental wellbeing, offering assessment and evidence-based interventions.
- Universal / Targeted: Health Visiting teams promote secure attachments to ensure that children grow up in a close and loving environment.
- Universal: Health Improvement work with third sector partners who support families in the Perinatal period (the period during pregnancy and up to a year after birth), and with Early Years establishments to deliver protective messages.
Our objective for the next three years is to improve children and young people's experience of services by:
- Investing in the expansion of the multidisciplinary CAMHS team
- Expanding and refocusing the school nursing team
- Working with partners to support the development of evidence-based tier 2 services such as REN 10 and School Counselling
- Developing a Young Persons' Mental Wellbeing Service as a test of change
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