Manchester mental health support team
Manchester Thrive in Education team is a blended service with partnerships between, CAMHS, VCSE organisations, 42nd Street, Manchester Mind and Place2 Be and One Education (Education Psychology service). The service collaborates closely with Healthy Schools public health team, Manchester local authority education department, School Health and the advice and signposting service M-Thrive Hubs based across the city. The CAMHS part of the service includes experienced and qualified multi- disciplinary practitioners with administration support, who provide a range of evidence-based interventions with children & young people and those who care for them this offer continues during school holidays.
The blended offer from services increases access for young people to a variety of mental health and wellbeing offers in primary secondary and further education settings across the city with over 60 settings receiving an offer and expansion plans are continuing.
The service has worked closely with a wide range of services who participate in wellbeing support in schools including developing an evidence-based approach to the mental health offer from school health providing consultation, training to school nurses. This has transformed the offer into schools in line with the Thrive model of mental health. The training offer to school staff has been strengthened via the partnership with Healthy Schools and One Education to provide universal and targeted training. This has included responding to national and local needs for instance in anxiety-based school non-attendance. The Neurodiversity in Education project has 4 practitioners based in the CAMHS part of the service who support schools to develop the whole school approach to neurodivergent young people, which involves whole school training, individual and group intervention with young people and parent/carer support.