Healthy Minds Team
The Healthy Minds Team is available to all children with lower level mental health and emotional health difficulties.
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Overview
The Healthy Minds Team is provided by South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, and is part of the Lifecycle Service.
It enhances the support offered from other mental health services, and helps to bridge the gap between mental health and education.
It offers early intervention and preventative approaches, to support children and young people to develop skills to cope with low to moderate level emotional health and mental health difficulties.
The service has 3 main roles:
- to deliver evidence based therapeutic interventions to children, young people and families (this might be one-to-one, group work or parenting / family work)
- to support senior mental health leads in schools / settings to develop and deliver a whole school approach to positive mental health
- to offer consultation and advice to education staff, to make sure children and young people get the right support
The team are skilled to deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions for:
- behavioural problems
- emotional regulation
- low mood
- anxiety
The service will offer brief, time-limited interventions, over 6 to 8 sessions.
Support available
The Healthy Minds Team is available to all children with lower level mental health and emotional health difficulties.
The service can work with schools to decide which service is the most appropriate.
The team is available to all schools for:
- consultations
- training
- whole school approach work
- universal emotional health workshops
- whole class work, available to all children and young people
The service will work with the school / setting to make sure interventions meet the needs of the audience.
Who can access the service
The Healthy Minds Team work with children and young people from Reception through to further education and college.
The service is available to all children and young people if their emotional / mental health need is a low-moderate level, non-complex and with low risk.
How to access the service
The service can be accessed through schools through a request for support.
- The request will be given to the dedicated worker at the school(s).
- The worker will review the information and contact the family directly. They will include the school, if consent has been given.
- The worker will arrange a time to meet the child, young person and family to get more information and agree the best treatment.