Tower Hamlets Young People's Mental Health Service

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The service aims to: • Provide an accessible, flexible and responsive mental health service to young people aged 14 -21 years in Tower Hamlets with emerging mental health problems • Promote a single ethos centred on young people, working flexibly with them, their families and with partner organisations in the borough • Improve mental health outcomes • Maximise opportunities for service delivery in partnership with existing young people’s services and mental health services in the borough. It must have three strands targeted at early interventions for those with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and those who will not attend specialist CAMHS. a) Additional youth mental wellbeing support, targeted at those with mild or emerging difficulties in youth services and projects b) Evidence-based individual and group interventions for those with moderate mental health problems c) Partnership with statutory and voluntary mental health providers for those with moderate to more complex difficulties, who are unlikely to engage with statutory services. The service will operate mainly outside the school day, i.e. evenings and weekends. It should work through a partnership delivery model with existing local organisations, and is intended to move to an outcomes-based contract over the contract period. The budget for this service is £280,000 per annum. Keywords: Mental Health, Young People