Harrow Mental Health and Wellbeing programme for 5-15 years old 2023
The CNWL Harrow Mental Health and Wellbeing pilot programme for 5-15 years old aimed to facilitate early interventions and provide children and young people with support in alternative settings, ultimately aiming toalleviate pressure on essential CAMHS teams and services.
One of the key priorities for children in Harrow is to ensure that we provide support as early as possible for children and families and to have an integrated, person-centred approach where children are supported by a network of organisations, in their home, school and social lives, who are both enabled and skilled to support them effectively.
2,250 children and young people were supported through the programme.
The three key areas of focus for this programme were:
- Outreach Services offering access to activities designed to support and enhance the mental health and well-being of children and young people (this is predominantly aimed at ‘school refusers’ and/or home educated).
- Targeted Support Services aimed specifically, but not exclusively, Children looked after, Black, Asian and LGBTQ+ children and young people
- Primary School Offer – proven or adapted services that can be taken into primary schools (this is predominantly aimed at addressing challenging behaviour in primary school children).
