Services
CAMHS Interagency Teams
Our CAMHS Interagency Teams are collaborative teams comprising professionals from diverse agencies and organizations involved in supporting the mental health of children and young people. These teams aim to facilitate a coordinated approach to mental health care by promoting effective communication and joint working among different sectors. Consisting of mental health experts, social services representatives, educators, and others, CAMHS Interagency Teams work together to develop integrated care plans, share information, and ensure comprehensive support for young individuals.
Gloucester Multi-agency Team
Our Gloucester Multi-agency Team works with families open to social care in Gloucester on a Child Protection or Child in Need Plan.
The GMAT team includes CAMHS family mental health nurses, CGL drug & alcohol support workers, GDASS domestic abuse support workers, CCP Housing support workers, a youth support worker and a learning co-ordinator.
We are here to support children, young people and their families who are under the care of Gloucester safeguarding teams where there are barriers or challenges to accessing mental health services.
Contact us
Telephone:
07773 598457
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E-mail:
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Address:
1st Floor, Block 6, Shire Hall, GL1 2TG
Our service
We aim to identify mental health needs at the earliest opportunity and provide early interventions to minimise the impact of mental ill health on the individual and family. We offer families a range of mental health-based opportunities and support to build a wider understanding of their current difficulties.
We support social workers and the wider team to better understand how parental stress and mental health difficulties can impact on the parent’s capacity to meet all of their child or young persons’ needs. This can impact on the young persons’ emotional development as well as current & future mental health.
The families we support may have complex needs including poor engagement or poorly-managed mental health needs. The children and young people we see often present with complex or challenging behaviours that communicate their distress, either from the context they are in or an underlying psychological difficulty.
We help develop appropriate coping strategies to manage mental health difficulties and concerns around challenging behaviours to support towards improved stability as a family unit.
Our Gloucester Multi-agency Team works with families open to social care in Gloucester on a Child Protection or Child in Need Plan.
The GMAT team includes CAMHS family mental health nurses, CGL drug & alcohol support workers, GDASS domestic abuse support workers, CCP Housing support workers, a youth support worker and a learning co-ordinator.
We are here to support children, young people and their families who are under the care of Gloucester safeguarding teams where there are barriers or challenges to accessing mental health services.
Referrals
- We accept referrals from Gloucester Children’s Social Care social workers and GMAT colleagues.
- We only accept referrals for families open to social care on a Child Protection or Child in Need Plan.
- We do not accept referrals for families open to other Mental Health Services.
- We can onward refer on to Core CAMHS where the identified needs are best met through CAMHS
For more information or to discuss or make a referral, contact:
Liz Davis Clinical Manager: liz.davis@ghc.nhs.uk or call: 07773 598457
Turn Around for Children Service
The Turn Around for Children Service (TACS) provides multi-disciplinary interventions for families whose children are in care proceedings.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) clinicians form part of the Turn Around for Children Service which delivers programmes for the Gloucestershire Family Drug & Alcohol Court – this is part of the Family Division of the UK High Court. Gloucestershire’s Family Drug & Alcohol Court is one of 24 of these family problem-solving courts in the UK.
The Turn Around for Children Service and the Gloucestershire Family Drug & Alcohol Court deliver multi-disciplinary interventions for families whose children are in care proceedings due to parental substance misuse, poor parental mental health and associated co-morbidities such as domestic abuse and unresolved trauma, otherwise known as Hidden Harm.
TACS is a multi-agency team led by, and co-located with, Gloucestershire County Council’s Children’s Service. Health professionals from our Trust align with the Council’s social work colleagues to deliver integrated substance misuse, physical and mental health and family support services for the Gloucestershire Family Drug and Alcohol Court.
TACS is a county-wide team, meeting clients in the community or in their homes.
Contact us
Telephone:
01452 328355
Address:
2nd Floor, Block 6, GCC Shire Hall, GL1 2TG
Contact us
E-mail:
TACS@gloucestershire.gov.uk
9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday,
excluding bank holidays
Our service
Potential cases in care proceedings which meet the Gloucestershire Family Drug and Alcohol Court criteria are raised at the Turn Around for Children Service Formulations Meeting.
After a multi-agency discussion, if the case is recommended for assessment, it will be tabled for a first hearing in court. Parents will be fully briefed about the intensive Turn Around for Children Service and Family Drug and Alcohol Court process.
If parents wish to proceed, an initial assessment is tabled. This is where teams of professionals gather information about all aspects of each parent’s historical and current mental and physical health, social, familial and emotional history and a chronology of substance misuse.
If the case is accepted into the Family Drug and Alcohol Court for a 26-week Trial for Change, parents sign up to an integrated course of treatment for their substance misuse, mental and physical health and any identified parenting needs. The Turn Around for Children Service also offer support and psychoeducation to the family’s wider network based on the Community Reinforcement And Family Training (CRAFT) model.
Referrals
Referrals come into Turn Around for Children Service via the Legal Planning Meetings for Children’s Care Proceedings. Our child safeguarding social workers assess cases which may be in pre-proceedings (including the unborn children of parents whose substance or alcohol misuse place the child at risk) and where there is parental insight and motivation to address their addiction.
The Gloucestershire Family Drug and Alcohol Court is a voluntary process and an alternative to conventional care proceedings. If eligible parents wish to enter the process, it is rare for a case not to proceed into the Court once they have undergone initial eligibility checks and assessment.
Functional Family Therapy
The Gloucestershire Functional Families Team (GFFT) provides therapeutic family intervention to help young people aged between 10-17 years who are at risk of offending behaviour or being taken into care.
The countywide service works with young people and their families and carers through sessions over a period of three to six months to look into unhelpful patterns of behaviour and to develop positive change with a focus on relationships.
Contact us
Telephone:
01452 427488
Address:
2nd floor, Block 6, Shire Hall, Gloucester, GL1 2TG
What we do
Functional Family Therapy is a strength-based programme designed to increase hope, improve communication and relationships while decreasing blame, negativity and dysfunctional patterns of behaviour.
We look at the family and wider relationships, then work together to develop strategies aimed at improving family relationships to enable families to stay living together. The focus is on achieving changes based on the unique challenges, individual qualities and strengths of each family. Behaviour change is planned to build upon strengths and existing skills, reduce risks and improve safety for each family.
We work to establish rapport with all family members and aim for lasting change. We help develop plans to maintain progress and to prepare for future challenges.
Areas of focus include:
- offending
- family relationships
- communication
- substance misuse
- aggression or conflict
- child sexual exploitation/criminal exploitation
- truancy or poor school attendance
- running away or going missing
- mental health.
Referrals
We accept referrals from Children’s Social Care Social Workers, Families First Support Workers and CAMHS Care Co-ordinators.
Inclusion criteria:
- Ages 10-17
- At risk of going into care or custody
- Living at home.
Exclusion criteria:
- If anyone that needs to be involved is actively psychotic or actively suicidal
- If the primary referral reason is sexually harmful behaviour or sexual offending
- If the young person is living away from home.
For more information or make a referral, contact: FFTreferrals@gloucestershire.gov.uk
