Emotional Health and Well Being Services

The Positive Steps Team has a passion for improving and supporting children and young people’s mental health. All professionals within the team come from a variety of diverse professional backgrounds all allied to mental/emotional health. The team has good working relationships with a wide variety of professionals including the core CAMHS service.

The Positive Steps Team provide assessment and targeted treatment of mild to moderate mental health presentations, therapeutic interventions and consultation.

Our aims are:

• To support our colleagues in universal and primary care services to detect emerging emotional issues /difficulties and provide preventative programs of support to children, young people and families in need.
• To provide secondary mental health support with mild to moderate mental health presentations, goal setting in specific areas and short term guided psycho-education.
• To ensure that children and young people requiring more specialist mental health support are supported to access services in a timely manner.

The Positive Steps Team accept referrals from School Nurses and Core CAMHS for children and young people, up to the age of 19 (who are in need of emotional health support beyond the universal level but not meeting the Tier 3 Specialist CAMHS criteria).

For further information please contact via telephone: 01384 324665.

Dudley CAMHS is a community mental health service based within the Dudley Borough. The service is based at The Elms Health Centre and provides a service to children and young people up to the age of 16 years old who have a Dudley GP. Referrals can be made by GP, Paediatrician and social care. The team compromises of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, counsellors, family therapists, psychotherapists. We provide specialist interventions for those young people who are experience complex to severe mental health issues. These interventions may include therapeutic support, family support or diagnosis for example Autistic Spectrum Disorder or ADHD. Our CAMHS service aims to work together with the young person, family and the network of other professionals such as education and social care in order to offer the most appropriate support and co-ordination. We at all times hold the child/young person’s voice in our journey together and ensure we respond to the needs of the young person and their family at all times. Our GP liaison Service allows young people and their families to access a CAMHS assessment within their GP surgery which can reduce waiting times and ensures those who do or do not require our service have access and information about appropriate services which can support them.

Referral Criteria

• Dudley CAMHS Referral Criteria

Contact Details:

Dudley CAMHS

The Elms Health Centre

Slade Road

Halesowen

B63 2UR

Tel: 01384 324689

What is this service?

This is a specialist service provided across Dudley and Walsall, exclusively for people who have an eating disorder. In the absence of an eating disorder we are unable to provide services for clients suffering from obesity. However we are able to advise of alternative services.

Download our Eating Disorders Service leaflet here.

How can I access the service?

This service can be accessed via referral from Community Recovery Service or Early Access Service.

Where is the service provided?

The service is provided at the nearest local mental health units, primary mental health services or home visits when appropriate.

Kingshill Centre

School Street

Wednesbury

WS10 9JB

Tel: 01922 608400 or 01922 607470

Hil House

High Street

Amblecote

Stourbridge

West Midlands

DY8 4DG

Tel: 01384 325120

Who is our service for?

We give support to people with the following eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and eating disorders not otherwise specified. Click here to read definitions of these eating disorders.

The service is for 8 years and up with an eating disorder.

How do we help?

When someone is referred to us, we meet with them to see if we can be of help. If we can help, we will work with the person on a recovery programme. The recovery programme is designed with three aims in mind: we hope to reduce eating disorder symptoms, help with physical recovery, and encourage psychological change.

Our range of staff helps us to achieve these aims. Working in our team we have a dietitian, mental health nurse, occupational therapist, STR worker, and psychologist. We can give support in one-to-one sessions, group sessions, or both, depending on someone’s need. Support includes psychological approaches like psycho-education and cognitive behavioural therapy. We also provide practical and creative activities for someone to get involved in.

How long the recovery programme lasts depends on the complexity of the eating disorder.

We also work with carers and health and community organisations to help people learn more about eating disorders.

Who can refer into our service?

Our referrals usually come from GPs and other primary care sources. Someone who has not used the service before must first be referred through one of the Trust’s CPNs or generic mental health teams. Someone who has used our service before can be referred directly to us by completing the services  

referral form.

What happens in an emergency?

If there is an emergency during working hours on a weekday then someone in our team can take care of the emergency. Our working hours are 9am to 5pm. On weekends and 5pm to 9am, our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team can give emergency help where it is needed.

What about carers and families?

We try to involve carers and families as much as we can. Carers and families can help us make care plans, and can also be a part of the care plan. We also try to help families and carers learn more about eating disorders.

How do you reach us?

We work Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Address:

Sandwell Eating Disorder Service Team

Edward Street Community Base

West Bromwich

West Midlands

B70 8NL

Tel: 0121 612 8301

Tel: 01902 444 627

Our educational and child psychology service aims to optimise learning, development and emotional well-being of children and young people in the borough.

What is an educational psychologist?

• have previous experience of working with children, for example as teachers
• are trained to understand how children and young people learn and develop
• have knowledge of a range of psychological approaches and research methodology
• work to prevent or overcome barriers to learning and healthy social and emotional development for children and young people
• abide by the Health Professions Council standards for practitioner psychologists

What do they do?

• Use their knowledge of effective psychological approaches to help with specific issues
• Work with children and young people aged between birth and 19 years and the adults who provide education and care for them
• Require informed consent from the parents or carers of any child or young person who we are asked to discuss or be involved with
• Carry out work in mainstream schools, children’s centres, specialist educational provision, community centres or with families at home
• Provide consultation, assessment and advice on interventions for individuals or groups of children and young people
• Consult with parents, carers, staff in schools and a range of other support agencies to build our understanding of a situation or need and formulate our advice
• Provide feedback in an appropriate format on our work
• Run short interventions or projects
• Provide detailed psychological advice when an assessment of special educational needs is being considered by Dudley Council
• Deliver training and provide other professional support for those involved in educating and caring for children and young people
• Are often called upon by Dudley Council to advise or join working/consultation groups on issues concerned with organisation and policy planning
• Draw on our research background to plan and carry out research activities

Here4YOUth is an integrated service supporting young people to be healthy, safe and happy. We offer free individual support by listening to the choices that are important to you. We have a welcoming centre where you can meet our friendly team: either walk in during open access time, or call/book an appointment online. We can meet you through live chat, 1:1 face-to-face appointments, video calling online or meet in a place where you feel most comfortable.

If you want to make positive changes with your life we can talk about your emotional health and wellbeing, help to increase your confidence, and see how we can support you.

Please note: Here4YOUth and its live chat facility is not an emergency service. If you require emergency assistance please call 999.

Self referral form Here4YOUth

Professional referral form Here4YOUth

Here4YOUth website

https://www.dudleyhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/health-wellbeing-strategy