Liverpool CAMHS Partnership
If you are a child or young person, parent or carer in crisis, you can call the Alder Hey CAMHS crisis care line 24 hours a day, seven days a week on 0151 293 3577 or freephone 0808 196 3550 Email CrisisCare@alderhey.nhs.uk
The Liverpool CAMHS offer aims to promote the mental health, emotional and wellbeing of all children, young people and their families/carers.
We 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, we aim to 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.
Liverpool CAMHS Partners are commissioned by NHS Liverpool CCG. These partners are:
- ADDvanced Solutions Community Network
- ADHD Foundation
- Barnardo’s Action with Young Carers
- Bullybusters
- Fresh CAMHS at Alder Hey
- Kooth
- Merseyside Youth Association
- Mersey Care Trust
- Alder Hey Eating Disorder Service for Young People (EDYS)
- Young Person’s Advisory Service
LiverpoolCAMHS.com is the website for the Liverpool Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) partnership.
The site contains:
- Information about Liverpool CAMHS
- A directory of Liverpool CAMHS providers and other local agencies, including details of the support services they provide and how to access them
- Local and national emotional health and wellbeing support services for children, young people and their families
- Useful resources, toolkits and information about emotional health and wellbeing
- News and information about local events, activities, partners and other local agencies
- Free training opportunities (including booking facility) for professionals working with children and young people.
Who to contact
- Contact Name
- Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
- Contact Position
- CAMHS Single Point of Access (SPA)
- Telephone
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Single Point of Access: 0151 293 3662
Alder Hey CAMHS crisis care line 0151 293 3577 or freephone 0808 196 3550 - Website
- Liverpool CAMHS Partnership
- Notes
Referrals can be made via the Single Point of Access number by General Practitioners (GP) or other professionals within the statutory and community sector, for example, any health professional, teachers, school mentors, connexions, social workers, youth and community workers, providing the young person or family has consented to the referral.
Other Details
Availability
- Other notes
Areas of support include:
- Therapeutic support (individual, group and family) using a range of models – bespoke packages of multi-disciplinary care
- Information, advice and guidance
- Psychosocial education
- Participation opportunities
- Targeted support for different a wide range of communities based on need *ACCESS SUBGROUP
- Education offer – increased presence in schools
- Secondary School Provision
- Primary School Provision
- Substance use – and those impacted by
- GP offer
- Perinatal and early years offer
- Neurodevelopmental support for individuals and families
- Medication support as and when required
- Public mental health and wellbeing promotion
- Workforce development and awareness-raising
- Parenting Support / Interventions
- Digital technology / innovation
- Consultation and pre-referral consultation to a variety of agencies
- Training
- Transgender Provision
- Refugee and Asylum Seeker Provision
- Crisis Support
- Advice on Prescriptions
- Student Mental Health Support
- Single Point of Access
- Group Work Programs
- Drop-in
- Peer Mentoring
- Sexual Health and mental health
*LGB&T, Young Carers, Young People who are Looked After, Young people with a disability, young people from BAME, LGBTIQ communities and young people within Offending Services. ACCESS
Neurodevelopmental support: A guide for professionals
This document outlines the statutory commissioned offer from Health and Local Authority of services and support available for children, young people and their families in Liverpool at different stages of their journey:
- early help/pre-diagnosis
- during the assessment and diagnosis stage; and
- post-diagnosis.
Local Offer
- Description
The Integrated Comprehensive CAMHS Offer is delivered by a range of providers from the voluntary and statutory sector. The offer takes an asset-based approach, ensuring accessible information and support is available at all levels i.e. public health, early intervention, early identification, prevention and intervention. It is a stepped model of care and children and young people can access the pathway at any stage dependent on their mental health needs. The focus is to ensure that children and young people and their families are supported at the universal level within their communities.
The Integrated Comprehensive CAMHS Offer also follows Liverpool’s Levels of Need Framework which has been developed to support practitioners to work together to promote children’s welfare and provide early help. The ‘windscreen’ model is used to assist in assessing and identifying a child/young person’s level of need; what type of services/resources may meet those needs and the process to follow in moving from the identification of the need to the provision of services.
- Links
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Liverpool CAMHS Pathway
- Local Offer Age Bands
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Young Adults (16 to 25)
Primary (5 to 11)
Secondary (11 to 16)
Early Years (0 to 5)