FEBRUARY 2020

Hello and a belated Happy

New Year!

This is Healthy Young Minds’ first

newsletter of the year and the new

decade.

This newsletter keeps you all informed

about the work of the Transformation

Programme for children and young

people’s emotional wellbeing and mental

health across Lancashire and South

Cumbria.

As well as progress from the programme,

we will be sharing interesting news and

local project updates from all around the

region and information about the services

available.

We hope you enjoy reading through our

newsletter and we will be in touch again in

the Spring.

Local projects

AMBIT Trainers Launch Day

On 5 December 2019 Morecambe Bay CCG hosted the launch of the Lancashire and

South Cumbria AMBIT trainers. These trainers, who are employed across various sectors,

including Health, Local Authority and VCFS in a variety of roles including adoption support

and CYP residential care have completed five days of 'Train the Trainer' AMBIT training.

55 professionals completed the course during 2019, over four cohorts across the

Lancashire and South Cumbria area.

Read more here

Burnley primary care networks launch Children’s

Resilience Project with Burnley Youth Theatre

Two local primary care networks (PCNs) have spearheaded a new project to help primary

school children learn coping skills and deal with stress.

PCN clinical directors of Burnley East and West, Dr Yas Naheed and Dr James Fleming,

have teamed up with six primary schools in Burnley and Burnley Youth Theatre are to offer

Burnley children the chance to learn how to manage stress, anxiety and coping skills as

well as build confidence and self-esteem.

The project, which has been supported by all practices in the two Burnley GP PCNs, will

see children from the six schools visiting Burnley Youth Theatre over a nine week period to

learn acting and theatrical skills alongside children from throughout Burnley. In the final

week of the course, the children will showcase a performance at the theatre for parents,

family and friends.

Read more here

New Year, New Site –

Launch of the Local Offer

website

One of the priorities for the SEND

Partnership was to review Lancashire's

SEND local offer, which is the information,

advice, support and services available

across Lancashire, for children and young

people with special educational needs and

disabilities.

Following an extensive review, work has

been carried out over the last six months

to revise the local offer website, which

provides a central access point to this

information.

Visit the website

Trust’s Eating Disorder Services Rated Positively

The All Age Eating Disorder Services run by Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS

Foundation Trust recently scored positively in a national assessment carried out by the

Quality Network for Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (QNCC).

Read more here

Chorley and South Ribble CCG and Greater Preston CCG

launch national programme to promote children and young

people’s mental health

Children struggling with mental health in central Lancashire are to benefit from better

services and support as a major national initiative was rolled out from January 2020.

The Link Programme is a national programme which aims to help health and education

professionals to work more closely together so that children get the help they need, when

they need it.

Every school and college in the Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston areas was

invited to attend as part of a drive to provide timely and appropriate support to children and

young people.

Led by the Anna Freud Centre, and funded by the Department for Education, the Link

Programme brings together professionals in a series of workshops to help schools and

colleges understand when children and young people need support and to refer them as

soon as their needs are identified.

Read more

Lancaster's Places of Calm

Each A&E or urgent care on the Lancashire footprint received £37k which is a total £259k

over seven sites.

In May 2015, the Government announced that the Department of Health would be making

up to £15 million in capital funding available to improve the provision, capacity and quality

of health-based places of safety to better support people detained under section 136 of the

Mental Health Act 1983. People in crisis situations will get the care they need in the most

appropriate setting.

Read more

CAMHS redesign update

It’s a very exciting time in the world of THRIVE. After a significant period of planning the

programme team are now at the point where each bit of the model is in the process of

being finalised and presented for agreement to the Senior Leadership Teams

across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Read more

Transformation Plan refresh survey now closed

Each year the objectives and priorities for the Children and Young People’s Mental Health

and Wellbeing Transformation Plan are refreshed to reflect progress from the previous

year and to identify the objectives and priorities needed to bring the plan closer to fruition

across Lancashire and South Cumbria in the upcoming year.

Read more

Parent/carer engagement sessions for Healthy Young

Minds website

The Children and Young People’s Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Transformation

Programme requested the development of an inclusive website that meets the needs and

requirements of all the target audiences, including children and young people,

professionals and parents/carers and families. The intention was to build an interactive

website that is easy to find and navigate and to provide a one-stop shop for everything

linked to improving and maintaining children and young people’s (CYP) emotional

wellbeing and mental health across Lancashire and South Cumbria. Our website, called

Healthy Young Minds, already has a functional professionals' section and work with

children and young people has been undertaken to assess their requirements for their

section of the website. Now, work on developing the parent/carer section of the website

has also commenced.

Read more

Get involved

'ASK' workshops in Cumbria: Assessing for Suicide in

Kids

Every Life Matters will be hosting two one-day 'ASK' workshops during March to address

suicide risk in children aged 5-14 giving participants appropriate strategies and support

tools.

Workshops will be held in Kendal (10 March) and Maryport (25 March). For more details

and booking, click the button below.

Book now

The Peace Foundation Combat Hate training

The Peace Foundation Combat Hate training is designed for teachers/youth workers to be

able to use the FREE resources that will be distributed on the day.

Combat Hate is an exciting new multimedia programme ready for roll-out from September

2019. Combat Hate explores contemporary challenges facing our communities, in

particular, issues related to the far-right, polarisation and extremism, in the UK. It draws on

first-hand experiences of people who have engaged in extreme groups, and who have

been impacted by far-right extremism.

They can offer TWO places per school/youth group on this training to be held on 27 May

2020 in Lancaster and Morecambe.

Book now

Do you work with children and young people?

Healthy Young Minds would love to promote all the work you are doing in your

communities around mental health and emotional wellbeing. This can be anything from

videos, events, projects the children and young people have been working on, or news

stories you would like us to share and much more.

Please tag us in your Twitter posts using @HealthyYM_LSC or mention us on your

Facebook at @LSCHealthyYoungMinds and we will retweet/re-post and share the

information through our other social media platforms, website and YouTube channel.

Alternatively, you can send any information over to healthyyoung.minds@nhs.net – we’d love

to hear what you’re up to and see your photos too!

New Vibes Youth Work Conference

On Thursday 12 March 2020 New Vibes are hosting a conference from 9.30am until

4.30pm which will take place at Our Place Youth Facility, Huyton, L36. The conference will

consist of workshops, guest speakers including DSMS, NYA, UK Youth Centre for Youth

Impact and many more. Lunch and refreshments will also be provided. The conference

costs £25 per person and bookings will be taken on a first come first served basis. The

deadline for bookings is 4 March 2020.

If you would like to attend or would like further information, please email

s.watts@youthfocusnw.org.uk

Mental health drop-ins for young people

Healthwatch Cumbria are working with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Services (CAMHS) redesign and they are looking for feedback through an online survey to

find out what young people want from mental health drop-in sessions.

Please share this survey link (https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/XK7NX6F) with any groups

of young people you know of or any people who may be interested in completing the

survey.

Take the survey

Read more about Healthwatch Cumbria

How far can we reach?

In January and February 2020, we used our social media channels to reach more people

across Lancashire and South Cumbria. 33,000 people viewed our tweets and over 2,000

people saw our Facebook posts alongside 52 likes, comments and 13 new page likes. Our

tweets were liked, commented on and retweeted by 107 people and we gained 27 new

followers.

If you’re not yet following us on social media, please do so by clicking the links below:

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We’ve recently launched a YouTube channel too, where we have a number of playlists on

a variety of topics set up, featuring videos that support children and young people’s

emotional wellbeing and mental health. Please do subscribe to our channel by following

this link.

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In the news...

Major renovation work has begun on a mental health

centre in Barrow

The Mind in Furness building, situated on School Street, has been approved a £300,000

grant to help create better services for the local community. Whilst renovations continue,

Mind in Furness is continuing to offer a full service of support from their temporary home at

Cumbria CVS Offices Hartington Street, Barrow.

Michael Cassells, project worker for Mind in Furness, said: “The real work is soon to begin

of furnishing and decorating so we can welcome people in to our expanded wellbeing

centre.”

Building work is due to be completed in April or May 2020.

Read more

Burnley young persons' mental health service receives

national praise

East Lancashire Child and Adolescent Service (ELCAS), which is based at Burnley

General Teaching Hospital, has become just the second service in the UK to receive a

national accreditation for quality.

They were accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatry’s Quality Network for Community

CAMHS (QNCC).

Kevin McGee, chief executive for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, said:

“I am thrilled that the work of East Lancashire’s young persons’ mental health service has

been recognised by the country’s professional body for psychiatrists. The ELCAS team, led

by clinical director Jo Weller, have once again demonstrated a real commitment to achieve

this accreditation not once but twice."

Read more

Preston City Councillor launches anti-bullying campaign

Preston City Councillor Daniel Gregg has launched a campaign aimed at combating

bullying.

The campaign ‘Bekind Northwest’, launched this month by the Liberal Democrat

Councillor, calls for the government to implement better strategies to prevent bullying in

schools.

According to the Department of Education’s report “Bullying in England April 2013 to March

2018″, 17% of young people aged 10 to 15 in England were bullied in the previous twelve

months, in a way that made them frightened or upset.

Read more

Royal Preston Hospital to get £2 million for specialist

mental health beds

Royal Preston Hospital is due to get 11 new mental health rehabilitation beds costing £2

million.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is adding the beds to increase

capacity in its mental health services.

The beds are expected to reduce the number of people with mental health issues visiting

hospital accident and emergency departments or being sent to other parts of the country

due to bed shortages.

Read more

New support services for mental health in west Cumbria

People struggling with mental health issues on the west coast now have somewhere to go

for support following the closure of Mind in West Cumbria last year.

Together We, a not for profit organisation which provides mental and physical health

support for people of all ages, has received £100,000 from United Utilities, Sellafield Ltd

and Cumbria Community Foundation towards the Together We Talk project, which will

provide one-to-one and group counselling as well as family support services.

Read more

Former sports stars speak out about mental health issues

for Lancashire and south Cumbria

Former football and rugby stars have come together to raise awareness over male suicide.

Paul Stewart and Danny Sculthorpe have appeared in films promoting the ongoing 'Let’s

Talk To Prevent Male Suicide' campaign.

Every 40 seconds someone in the world dies from suicide and to mark this, two 40 second

films have been made, promoting messages around male suicide prevention.

Read more

NHS text helpline for health and wellbeing praised by

members of the public

A NEW service aimed to help people suffering from mental health problems has received

outstanding feedback. The mental health helpline’s texting service established by

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS has been gathering satisfaction ratings.

Read more

Changes are coming to children's mental health services

Changes are due to be made to mental health services for young people in the area.

Health chiefs are due to put forward their views on a redesign of child and adolescent

mental health services for south Cumbria.

Read more

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