CORC Members

Advantage is a unique partnership between two community assets and anchor institutions – the charitable arms of Premier League and English Football League clubs; known as Club Community Organisations (CCO), and local NHS. 

Advantage’s programmes are proven to tackle and reduce Health Inequalities via social prescribing by providing weekly mental health and emotional wellbeing mentoring support. They provide key interventions and assistance for people to proactively manage their mental wellbeing, re-establish aspirations and a sense of connection. They have proven that Advantage successfully overcomes barriers people face to accessing traditional forms of mental health support, such as minority ethnicity, stigma, age, and gender.

The Advantage Talking Tactics Programme has been designed by senior NHS strategists and CCO staff to increase access to NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and help tackle and reduce Health Inequalities by providing weekly mental health and emotional wellbeing mentoring support for young people aged 11-21.

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Anna Freud has been developing and delivering pioneering mental health care for over 60 years. They are leading the way by campaigning for and creating mental health services built around the needs and experiences of children, young people and their families and not around the institutions who deliver them

AFNCCF's vision is a world where children and families are supported effectively to build on their strengths and to achieve their goals in life. We won't rest until every child and their family has the support they need and deserve, whatever their circumstances.

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) provides inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire. We also provide specialist services extending throughout the south west.

The trust employs over 4,000 dedicated members of staff who deliver services from more than 90 locations, working in approximately 150 teams across a geographical region of 2,200 miles, for a population of approximately 1.8 million people.

They are promoting good mental health and wellbeing and strive to use the expertise and resources within the organisation, and through partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe and focused on people's recovery. Their staff are pivotal in everything they do and they are committed to involving them fully in the development of the Trust and the services.

At Barnardo’s they're goal is clear – to achieve better outcomes for more children.

This means helping families – where possible before problems reach crisis point. It means keeping children safe from sexual abuse and exploitation, while supporting victims and survivors to recover and rebuild. It also means addressing children’s mental health and wellbeing, especially when so many have experienced trauma.

Importantly, at Barnardo’s they now see themselves as a children’s health and social care charity. Historically health and care have often been seen as separate, but they know that for children, their health, wellbeing and safety are all inter-connected, and they only want to tell their story once.

They also know the reality of children’s lives is constantly shifting – and so are the difficulties they face. Whether it’s threats online, criminal exploitation by gangs, or the needs of children arriving in the UK as refugees, they will be ready to respond and stand ready to help those most in need of their services.

Key to this is their vision and ambition, championed by their founder Thomas Barnardo, to help create a world in which no child is turned away from the help they need. Within this is an enduring message of inclusion and a belief that help must be accessible to all children, regardless of their background or circumstances.

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Barnet’s Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) was established under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to act as a forum in which key local leaders from the local health and care system work together to improve the health and wellbeing of their local population. The Board became fully operational on 1 April 2013. It is a formal committee of the local authority charged with promoting greater integration and partnership between bodies from the NHS, public health and local government.

The main statutory duties of the HWB Board are to produce a joint strategic needs assessment and a joint Health and Wellbeing strategy for local population. 

Barnet's Health and Wellbeing strategy focuses on prevention, life course approach in everything we do and it tackles wider determinants of health such as employment, housing and education. Specific priorities of the Board and the Strategy are:

• Mental health and wellbeing;
• Healthy Weight;
• Embedding prevention in care closer to home;
• Improving children’s outcomes.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service aims to promote emotional wellbeing and deliver care, treatment and preventative mental health services to young people aged up to 18 who experience significant mental health difficulties.

CAMHS employ specialist, multi-disciplinary mental health workers who work alongside young people with complex mental health needs.

CAMHS offers a range of different services including the following:

• Regional - Inpatient Assessment and Treatment
• Crisis Intervention and Intensive Intervention
• Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment
• Drug and Alcohol Assessment and Treatment
• Regional - Identity Assessment and Treatment
• Regional - Family Trauma Assessment and Treatment
• Multiple Step 2 Community Services
• Multiple Step 3 Community Services

As well as working with young people, CAMHS professionals also provide systemic support for parents and carers.

CAMHS also offers support and training to staff in schools, youth workers, G.Ps and others who work alongside young people to raise awareness and ensure timely and appropriate referrals are made.

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Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust provides care and support to children, young people and their families in Berkshire. In response to feedback, they have integrated all children’s services so that they can place children and young people at the centre of everything they do.

They offer:

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Children and Young People’s Integrated Therapies (CYPIT)
• Public Health Nursing (Universal Services)
• Specialist Children’s Services
• Other community services for children and young people

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CPFT provides a wide range of services for children, young people and their families: universal child health services, pathways for children and young people with mild - moderate - severe mental health problems and care and treatment for children and young people with developmental problems, physical and learning disabilities.

Childhood First provide a range of specialist therapeutic services for emotionally and psychologically disturbed children and young people aged 5 to 18, as well as training and consultation for the adults who live and work with them.

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The Children's Society is known for it research into children's wellbeing. It seeks to provide the a national picture on how children feel about their lives by asking children themselves. Over the last 12 years the charity has surveyed over 60,000 children as to how they think their lives are going.

The charity went on to develop the Good Childhood Index in 2010 to provide a measure of subjective well-being in relation to 10 aspects of life for children over the age of eight. It surveys children on topics including their appearance, school life and family relationships among others.

Each year The Children's Society produces a report based on the index in partnership with the University of York called The Good Childhood Report. This data is used by the Office for National Statistics' Measuring National Well-being Programme as the life satisfaction measure of personal well-being for children.

The 2016 Good Childhood Report showed "a growing gap in happiness between girls and boys, with girls being particularly unhappy with their appearance". The Good Childhood Report 2017 found that fear of crime is the biggest worry for children and young people.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a wide range of mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages, along with a number of community physical health services for people in Coventry.

They provide inpatient, community and day clinics, as well as specialist services, to a population of about 1 million people living in Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull, and some specialist services to a wider geographical area.

Their services are provided from more than 60 locations and employ more than 4,000 dedicated staff.

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Creative Youth Network enables young people, not matter what their background or circumstances, to reach their own potential.  Young people who are experiencing barriers that are preventing them from flourishing. Many of their young people are marginalised, unemployed, not in education, suffer poor mental health, are in care (or are care leavers), are asylum seekers, refugees, disabled, from low income households or are an ethnic minority.

Helping young people remove or overcome the barriers they face by:

1. Building trusting relationships with young people that enable us to address their individual needs
2. Advocating for young people to influence policy and get young voices heard
3. Providing a wide range of programmes and activities to help young people reach their potential

East Lancashire Hospitals Specialist CAMHS aims to provide a joint agency/multi-disciplinary service to enhance the development of those children with mental health problems and disorders. This will be achieved by:

• Assessment of children who are experiencing mental health disorders and their families.
• Treatment of children who are experiencing mental health disorders and their families.
• Contributing to the development of prevention strategies.
• Supporting the work of other childcare professionals through consultation, training and supervision.
  
• By acting as a specialist resource to managers and planners and commissioners in the development of services.
  
• Promotion of the positive mental health of children and adolescents.
• Training and research. 

Specialist CAMHS aims to provide a comprehensive service which is able to deal with a range of mental health issues, in collaboration with other agencies to provide the highest quality standards of care and intervention.

The service covers the whole of East Lancashire across 6 different localities (population circa 520,000). Within each of the localities are specialist CAMHS workers who work primarily with other professionals in primary care. The workers in these localities have direct links into three sector teams. The sector teams consist of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Staff Grade Doctors, Community Mental Health Workers, Community Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, ADHD Practitioners and Occupational Therapists. 

There is also an Intensive Support Team, which the three sector teams can access for referral of cases requiring an intensity of input that cannot be provided in conventional outpatient settings. 

EDAI is a leading non-profit specialising in Neurodevelopment and Mental Health, offering comprehensive services for children to families. With a unique blend of community engagement, scientific rigor, and an expansive international network, they are committed to pioneering societal well-being through expert clinical practice and research. With clinical centres in Barcelona and Madrid.

Drawing from the renowned EDAI model, they also bring training experiences, bridging cutting-edge insights with real-world expertise, where you can learn from top clinicians and researchers.

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The Erica Foundation is a Swedish non-profit organization with the overall goal to reduce mental health problems in children and young people.

Their vision is that all children and young people get the support they need to live a good life and have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

They provide the following services:

• Clinical activities. Treatment, psychotherapy and psycho-educational interventions for children, young people and their families.
• Support interventions when society fails, such as qualified crisis support for sudden deaths in the family, sexual abuse, domestic violence, suicide/murder and serious events in society.
• Advanced training in psychotherapy, other treatment and related fields, focusing on children and young people, to strengthen these competences in society. We often train social services, doctors and educators.
• Research and method development to strengthen and develop our treatment activities and knowledge of effective methods and other approaches for children and young people with mental health problems.
• Dissemination of knowledge about mental health and ill health in children and young people, for example through participation in the media.
• Influencing work to improve conditions for children and young people, on issues within the framework of the

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Family Action transforms lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation across the country.

They have been building stronger families since 1869, and today work with over 60,000 families through over 160 community-based services. Thousands more are supported with financial assistance through education and welfare grants programmes.

Their innovative services reach out to those in need, to strengthen families and communities, to build skills and resilience and to improve the life chances of children and adults.

Spanish institute created in 1964 and dedicated to the field of Health and specifically to Mental Health with integrated teaching and research into mental health and a psychological, social, biological and spiritual perspective.

Forward Thinking Birmingham is the city’s mental health service for children and young people aged 0 to 25.

The organisation is a partnership between four providers – Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (lead provider), Simplify Health, The Priory and The Children’s Society – and offers a wide range of support, care and treatment at locations across the city.

Birmingham Women's and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust (BWC) is the lead provider of Forward Thinking Birmingham and brings together the very best in paediatric and women’s care in the region. The Children’s Hospital has been delivering high-quality community and inpatient mental health services for children and young people up to the age of 18 in Birmingham and the West Midlands for over 15 years.

Simplify Health is a managed care leader in mental health, specialising in helping people achieve and sustain recovery in community settings. Simplify Health offers world-class mental health case management, system-wide pathway coordination, and insightful analytics that improve the delivery of care.

The Children’s Society changes the lives of the country’s most disadvantaged children and teenagers by delivering frontline support services and campaigning for change. It works closely with a wide range of community and voluntary organisations to tackle poverty and neglect and is a lead researcher in the field of children’s emotional well-being.

Priory Group is the leading provider of behavioural care in the UK. Its purpose is to make a real and lasting difference for everyone it supports. Priory Healthcare runs the largest network of mental healthcare hospitals and clinics in the country, providing treatment for addictions and conditions including depression, self-harming, and eating disorders. In Birmingham, the Priory’s Woodbourne Hospital has a team of psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists treating adults and children.

The Green Hub Project for Teens is a local community project serving residents of Godalming, Milford and Witley, along with the broader Waverley and Surrey areas within the UK.

They started work in July 2021, and have already made a significant impact in the work they do.

Supporting teens (11-18) facing social, emotional & mental health challenges (SEMH), along with their families and carers, they have five core strands to the free services they offer …

1. A signature Green Hub Teen Garden program which runs two sessions in each of their two locations, giving stressed, anxious and neuro-diverse teens the chance to experience the calming effect of nature, benefiting their mental wellbeing.
2. Each month they run two sessions: Parent Hub and Parent Hub Online, to help parents supporting a child with SEMH challenges.
3. Their Teen Talks team deliver empowering talks to teens, helping them to develop the life skills to help them develop resilience and strategies to handles life’s challenges.
4. Their free Life Skills for Teens programme is an 8-week online course to support teens with their mental wellbeing; launched in February 2024, it has already been followed by 100 local teens.
5. They deliver valuable free resources and advice to parents and teens, via website online support.

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Heads Up Kids is a social and emotional wellbeing curriculum promoting positive mental health. The programmes for Reception through to Year 7 are delivered in the classroom by the class teacher. Programmes are designed for the whole class and focus on emotional literacy, emotional regulation, getting on with others and building positivity and resiliency.

Heads Up Kids aim to provide high quality resources and increase access to wellbeing provision through subsidised programmes. All of the programmes are mapped against PSHE association guidelines and RSE statutory requirements and can easily be slotted into any scheme of work.

The overall aim is to create a shared emotional language in the classroom. Heads Up Kids believe that in a classroom where children have the words to express their feelings and feel confident to do so, those children will be more resilient, more able to solve problems, they will have more empathy for others and be better able to work collaboratively. 

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The Department of Education, Sport and Culture (DESC) is firmly placed in the heart of the Island’s community and plays a pivotal role in Island life. It is responsible for operating educational establishments throughout the Island, including 32 primary schools, five secondary schools and University College Isle of Man.

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The IWK Health Centre Mental Health and Addictions (MHA) programme in Canada, recognized the essential need to understand whether, and how, their clients were achieving improved mental health outcomes. They believed joining CORC would provide them with the support and structure to meet their goals for routine outcome measurement.

The programme is embedded in a paediatric tertiary care hospital and has over 30,000 individual visits a year from children and youth in Nova Scotia and three nearby provinces.

Since joining CORC in January 2017, and gaining access to a network of international mental health service providers, MHA are beginning to find solutions to the challenges of how best to measure outcomes in various paediatric mental health settings. 

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Jami improves and saves lives impacted by mental illness and distress in the Jewish community.  They support many hundreds of people each year impacted by mental health problems, enabling those isolated because of their mental distress to become re-engaged with their family, friends and local community. Improving mental health understanding for thousands more people through training, seminars and other educational sessions.

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The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is a mental health assessment and therapeutic service for children and young people up to the age of 18 and their families.

They offer assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children and young people suffering from:

• emotional difficulties
• behavioural difficulties
• relationship difficulties
• developmental difficulties
• other mental health disorders (eg psychosis, eating disorders)

Kooth helps improve the lives of children, young people and adults by connecting them with clinicians and each other in safe, supportive online communities. They are pioneers in online counselling, trusted by the NHS and over 250,000 people who have used or are using their services. They understand how to bring together emerging technologies with innovation in clinical practice and evaluation to create new models of care in mental health.

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As a founding member of CORC and a CYP IAPT service, Leeds CAMHS has been working to embed outcome measures within clinical practice for over a decade.

The commissioning of the service is also now increasingly focused on the meaningful use of outcome measures. As such Leeds CAMHS wanted to explore young people and their carers’ experiences of outcome measures.They designed an online and paper survey which they promoted using a range of methods, including designing posters, using social media and informing clinicians. Following an initially poor uptake (four responses), the survey was handed to patients when they attended appointments. The results provided some key learning that Leeds CAMHS will be able to use to improve the use of outcome measures within their service. Read the whole feedback here.

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The Liverpool CAMHS offer aims to promote the mental health, emotional and wellbeing of all children, young people and their families/carers.

Working together, they respond to the mental health, emotional and wellbeing needs of children, young people and their families/carers. They work with families and professionals to develop their skills and strengths; helping them to manage children and young people’s distress and the impact this may have on the child, young person and the family. Working alongside children and young people, they improve access to services that provide vital support to build resilience, as well as offering help and intervention, enabling children and young people to thrive.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across the region. 

They offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

No5 is a community- based organisation who have been offering free mental health support, counselling and preventative outreach support to young people (aged 11-25) and those around them since 1971.  Their counselling sessions are provided by 65 fully trained volunteer counsellors or counsellors on placement – 65 counsellors offering sessions 5 days a week in Central Reading, local secondary schools, online and on the phone. Their counsellors come from all walks of life and backgrounds but all share a commitment to supporting young people.

Their vision is for a world that does not stigmatise children and young people’s mental health and accepts it as a normal part of human development.

Their mission is to provide early intervention services to prevent the development of more serious problems caused by mental or physical ill health or other challenging circumstances, by providing support and advice (in particular, but not exclusively, by providing professional counselling services), to children and young people and their families regardless of difference, background or identity who live, work or study in Reading and the surrounding area.

Their Operations team are made up of Lived Experience Young Leaders – young people and former service users who now have professional roles in the staff team, including leading their Young Ambassador Scheme – a group of young people and former service users who are part of co-designing and delivering their services.

They have created a series of reports that aim to provide valuable insights and information on various topics related to young people’s mental health, helping to educate and inform individuals, communities and organisations about the latest developments and best practices.

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is a large mental health trust and an NHS Foundation Trust. It runs services in Norfolk and Suffolk, England, chiefly at Hellesdon Hospital, Norvic and Juilan Hospital in Norwich, Northgate in Great Yarmouth, and Carlton Court in Lowestoft.

It was formed by a merger of Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust with Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust on 1 January 2012.

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We work with Place2Be, the UK's leading children's mental health charity providing in-school support and expert training to help improve the emotional wellbeing of pupils, families, teachers and school staff. Pupils can find help with friendship issues and other worries by choosing to visit Place2Talk. Children can book to see a counsellor on their lunch or break time and attend on their own or in a group. Place2Be also works with children individually and in small groups, offering regular time-tabled support for those who will benefit most, working closely with parents and school staff. 

Place2Be also offers support and advice for parents and carers, as well as teachers and school staff. 

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. They also provide substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. Their services include the Maudsley Hospital and Bethlem Royal Hospital. They work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. 

They are supported by Maudsley Charity and are part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust employs over 8,300 people who together make up #TeamSTSFT.  Their staff work in lots of different locations doing lots of different things. They look after people at home, in the community and in hospital. They work in local health centres, schools and GP practices as well as their hospitals.    

Within this are their services for Children and Young People, which includes Sunderland Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) -a team of professionals who offer support and advice to aid mental health and positive well-being. This service works with children and young people aged 0-18 who may be showing signs of emotional distress and/or behavioural difficulties. The aim is to deal with such difficulties at the earliest possible stage of intervention in the hope that children and young people will develop skills and resilience to promote positive well-being. 

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Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri, BUP

Children and young people up to age 18 can contact Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP), which provides help to those who are experiencing psychological or other difficulties. BUP clinics have psychologists, counsellors and doctors. Most of them are also trained psychotherapists, whose job it is to help people understand themselves and change by means of therapy, as well as play, exercise or other methods on occasion.

Children or young people may go to BUP either on their own or with their parents. Phone a BUP clinic if you want to talk with someone or make an appointment. All visits to BUP clinics are free of charge.

The BUP Lunden clinic on Tideliusgatan in Stockholm specializes in children and families who are in the process of migrating. They also see children and families who do not have residence permits.

The Somerset & Wessex Eating Disorders Association (SWEDA) is a regional charity supporting people affected by eating disorders. Set up in 1992 by a group of people with eating disorders and their loved ones, SWEDA has grown to provide a range of services for people struggling with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and more. Our services also give support to family members and friends engaged in the difficult task of supporting someone close to them.

Their stated aim is pro-recovery. Seeking to enable and empower people to improve their mental and physical health and wellbeing, thereby enriching their overall quality of life and helping them to be as healthy as possible. To facilitate this, SWEDA provides a range of services that offer information, guidance, training and support.

SWEDA is user-led and based on the principles of self-help. At the heart of the organisation is a commitment to ensure that people who have lived experience of eating disorders are actively encouraged to contribute to the development and delivery of the service.

Including:

• counselling services
• a self help support group for anyone affected by an eating disorder
• a support group for friends and family of someone with an eating disorder
• expert training for Health Professionals and GPs
• a college support service, working with young people in educational hubs 

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust was created in April 2006, following the merger of County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust and Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust. They provide a range of mental health, learning disability and eating disorder services for the people living in County Durham and Darlington, the Tees Valley and most of North Yorkshire. With over 6,500 staff and an annual operating income of over £300 million we deliver our services by working in partnership with local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of other providers including voluntary organisations and the private sector, as well as service users, their carers and the public.

Children and young people’s services

This service includes all child and adolescent mental health services and early intervention in psychosis services for the people of County Durham, Darlington, Teesside and North Yorkshire.

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The Family School is a different type of school that provides opportunities for young people who currently present as unsuited or unable to meet the demands of mainstream school provision.  It is our conviction that many of these children have tremendous latent potential that an innovative school will nurture and release for the benefit of the wider society. 

These children need early and sustained intervention to ensure that in the first instance they are not permanently excluded from school or, where they have already been excluded, to ensure their return to full time appropriate provision is rapid and sustained.

The Family School will enable its pupils to:

• progress academically;
• improve their challenging behaviours;
• recover their psychological and emotional well-being; and
• gain resilience so that they continue with full-time education and return successfully to their mainstream school.

The Family School has been developed through a new collaboration between the Anna Freud Centre and the former heads of a family education centre in Westminster, Neil Dawson and Brenda McHugh.

The University Hospital of North Norway or UNN is a hospital and health trust. UNN is a university hospital for the region which includes the counties of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark. It is part of the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority. Its service area has a combined population of 465,000.

Their four primary tasks are treatment of patients, training of patients and next of kin, research, and education of health personnel. They also have psychiatric care and substance abuse treatment in Åsgård in Tromsø, in Harstad, in Narvik and in several other places in Troms and the Narvik area. 

Unlocking Potential work collaboratively with communities to enable children and young people with social, emotional, and mental health needs to unlock their full potential.

They deliver high performing therapeutic programmes and education provision for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH). They work in collaboration with families, communities, and other partners to ensure that children and young people access the interventions they need in order to thrive. The organisation provide opportunities for young adults who are not in education, employment or training to enter the workplace and become productive, self-sustaining and independent adults.

Established in 1966 the Young Person's Advisory Service (YPAS) is a charitable sector organisation that supports children, young people and families. They have 3 locations in Central, South and North Liverpool.

YPAS provides a diverse range of support, counselling and psychotherapy services to address the mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties of Liverpool's children and young people aged 16-25 years and their families.

Their mission is to improve the mental health and emotional well-being needs of children, young people and families in a non-stigmatized environment, that allows them to:

• deliver a wide range of support and therapeutic interventions
• reach children, young people and families as early as possible
• consistently monitor progress and change
• work jointly with professionals across health, education and social care
• include children, young people and families in the design and delivery of services
• ensure services and pathways are accessible.

YPAS Walk In Support Hub (WISH) provides same-day mental health support for children, young people, and families in Merseyside. Their practitioners can support children, young people, and families with emotional wellbeing needs and advise on various practical support issues. They will provide information, advice, and guidance and sometimes offer low-intensity CBT-based support models. You can find out more about timing and locations within their website.

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