It is UK Youth’s mission to provide all young people with access to appropriate, high-quality services in their local community or online. They offer support, advice and training to equip young people with the vital life skills needed to engage in education, volunteering and employment.
All UK Youth’s programmes are designed with a clear understanding of the learning and outcomes they hope young people will achieve. In addition to the programme specific skills and knowledge they gain, they also measure emotional and social capabilities (ESC). These capabilities are sometimes referred to as life skills and include communication, self-awareness, resilience, motivation, receptiveness, confidence and responsibility.
This unit provides acute and medium term mental health care for young people aged 11 to 18. It offers a setting where young people can be assessed and treated for psychiatric disorders which cannot be managed in the community, offering a broad range of treatments. The unit works closely with community Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) services to ensure stays in hospital are as short as possible. Oxfordshire County Council provides teaching in line with the national curriculum.
IPPS offers support to women and men who are experiencing or who are at risk of experiencing moderate mental health difficulties relating to pregnancy or the birth of their child, such as: parent-infant relationship difficulties, post-natal depression or current low mood, anxiety and panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and eating disorders. The service is multi-professional and includes two community psychiatric nurses and a mental health practitioner.
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Neuropsychiatry Service provides assessment, treatment and support for young people (up to 18 years) with complex Neuropsychiatry needs, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Tourette’s Syndrome who are presenting with high risk behaviours and/or have come into contact with the youth justice system. The team also offers support to their families.
A mental health team, with expertise in attachment, family trauma, and family relationships – their focus is on the emotional side of parenting. They help families plan for their future when there has been concern about risk or harm to the children in the past. They aim to reduce the negative consequences of harm to children, and reduce risk of future harm to children.
Their intensive therapy programme is typically 6-12 months, and involves a mentalization based (MBT) parenting programme. Parents in the past have found their programme helpful for:
- Making sense of your child’s confusing behaviour or difficult emotions
- Exploring and strengthening your relationship with your child
- Building a deeper understanding of your child (and yourself)
- Improving your confidence as a parent
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Learning Disability Service provides assessment, treatment and support for young people (up to 18 years) with learning disabilities who have mental health needs or complex behavioural difficulties, a diagnosed learning disability or significant impairment of intellectual and social adaptive functioning, or had an assessment which indicates that other services involved with the child are not able to meet the current need if there are not the skills or competence available.
OSCA stands for Outreach Service for Children & Adolescents. The OSCA Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provides an outreach service which supports children and families with complex mental health needs, who need intensive support. The service also provides a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) programme.
CAMHS aims to make sure than no one goes without the support they need. In Oxfordshire they provide a wide range of mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and community services.
CAMHS offers two pathways for providing mental health services for children and adolescents.
The CAMHS – Getting Help pathway provides an early intervention which is time limited. This is the first level of help they offer for children and young people with emotional or mental health difficulties. You would normally work with one main mental health worker who will often have a background in nursing, social work, or occupational therapy. CAMHS – Getting Help offers children and young people opportunities to learn new skills to support them in managing emotional or mental health difficulties and also supports parents and carers.
The CAMHS – Getting More Help pathway works with children and young people who may need help over a longer period of time and/or who need more professionals to be involved. This could be because of something significant which has happened in their life, or just because more help is needed. It is different for everyone, and they try to treat everyone as an individual. They also support parents and carers too.
CAMHS – Getting More Help will treat children or young people in an emergency if they need help for a serious mental illness, like if they are feeling very low and have been thinking about harming themselves.
They offer evidence-based treatment, which means that the treatment has been tested to make sure that it works. You might be seen individually, with a family member or in a group with other young people who have similar difficulties: they will ask you what you prefer.
CAMHS aims to make sure than no one goes without the support they need. In Oxfordshire they provide a wide range of mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and community services.
CAMHS offers two pathways for providing mental health services for children and adolescents.
The CAMHS – Getting Help pathway provides an early intervention which is time limited. This is the first level of help they offer for children and young people with emotional or mental health difficulties. You would normally work with one main mental health worker who will often have a background in nursing, social work, or occupational therapy. CAMHS – Getting Help offers children and young people opportunities to learn new skills to support them in managing emotional or mental health difficulties and also supports parents and carers.
The CAMHS – Getting More Help pathway works with children and young people who may need help over a longer period of time and/or who need more professionals to be involved. This could be because of something significant which has happened in their life, or just because more help is needed. It is different for everyone, and they try to treat everyone as an individual. They also support parents and carers too.
CAMHS – Getting More Help will treat children or young people in an emergency if they need help for a serious mental illness, like if they are feeling very low and have been thinking about harming themselves.
They offer evidence-based treatment, which means that the treatment has been tested to make sure that it works. You might be seen individually, with a family member or in a group with other young people who have similar difficulties: they will ask you what you prefer.
