About this service

Young Minds Matter (YMM) is a safe and confidential mental health support service developed for children and young people up to 18 years of age in schools across Gloucestershire.

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The team can offer you support if you are struggling with things like anxiety, low mood and poor sleep or similar concerns. This can be either face-to-face in school or via a virtual online platform. To meet with someone from Young Minds Matter you can ask a teacher/member of staff in the school to make a referral for you. Alternatively, if you attend a secondary school and would prefer not to talk to someone at school you can refer yourself into the team using YMMChat.

Background to YMM, Gloucestershire

The service is growing and is currently working within 113 schools across the county.

The project started in December 2018 when Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group worked with Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (formerly 2Gether) and Gloucestershire County Council to engage with young people across the county to set up the Young Minds Matter programme. The aim of the programme is to help provide young people with early support to help them with mild to moderate mental health issues such as exam stress, anxiety or low mood.

More information about the origins of the project is available here>

Who can access YMM?

YMM is currently a pilot scheme and can only accept referrals for pupils from participating schools. Our list of trailblazer schools is listed below. If your school is not on this list, please contact TIC+ or seek support at onyourmindglos.nhs.uk

Please note that within CAMHS we use an SMS messaging service through gov.notify and this is used within YMM service. Text messages will display as YMM-NHS. If you do not want to receive these messages, please inform the referrer before submitting a referral.

List of YMM schools

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  • Abbeymead Primary School

    Avening Primary School

    Aylburton C of E Primary School

    Barnwood C of E Primary School

    Beech Green Primary School

    Berry Hill Primary School

    Blakeney Primary School

    Bream C of E Primary School

    Bromesberrow St Mary’s C of E Primary School

    Bussage Primary School

    Catholic School of St. Gregory the Great

    Coopers Edge

    Callowell Primary School

    Calton Primary School

    Cam Everlands Primary School

    Cam Woodfield Junior School

    Carrant Brook Junior School

    Cashes Green Primary School

    Chesterton Primary School

    Christ Church C of E Primary

    Churchdown Parton Manor Schools’ Federation

    Churchdown Village Junior School

    Cirencester Primary School

    Clearwell C of E Primary school

    Coalway Junior School

    Coney Hill Community Primary School

    Dinglewell Junior School

    Drybrook Primary School

    Dunalley Primary School

    Dursley C of E Primary Academy

    Elmbridge Primary School

    Field Court Junior Academy

    Finlay Community Primary School

    Forest View Primary School

    Gardners Lane Primary School (Federation w/ Oakwood)

    Glebe Infant School (Newent Federation of Schools)

    Glenfall Community Primary School

    Gloucester Road Nursery and Primary School

    Grange Primary School

    Greatfield Park Primary School

    Harewood Junior School

    Heron Primary School

    Hempsted C of E Primary School

    Hestersway Primary School

    Hillview Primary School

    Holy Trinity C of E Primary School

    Hope Brook C of E Primary School

    Huntley C of E Primary School

    Hunts grove Primary Academy

    Innsworth Junior School

    John Moore School

    Kingsholm C of E Primary School

    Kingsway Primary School

    Lakeside Primary School

    Linden Primary School

    Longlevens Junior School

    Lydbrook Primary School

    Lydney C of E Community School

    Meadowside Primary School

    Mitcheldean Endowed Primary School

    Mitton Manor Primary School

    Moat Primary Academy

    Newnham St Peters Primary School

    Oakwood Primary School (Federation wi/ Gardners Lane)

    Parkend Primary School

    Pauntley C of E School

    Picklenash Junior School (Newent Federation of Schools)

    Pillowell Primary School

    Powell’s C of E Primary School

    Primrose Hill C of E Primary Academy School

    Queen Margaret Primary School

    Redbrook C of E Primary

    Robinswood Primary Academy

    Rowanfield Junior School

    Ruardean C of E Primary School

    Severnbanks Primary School

    Soudley Primary School

    Springbank Primary Academy

    St Briavels Parochial C of E Primary School (Wye Forest Federation)

    St James C of E Junior School

    St James’ Primary School

    St John’s C of E Academy

    St Johns Primary School

    St Marys Primary School

    St Pauls C of E Primary School

    St Peter’s Catholic Primary School

    St Thomas More Catholic Primary School

    St White’s Primary School

    Steams Mill Primary

    Stroud Valley Community School

    Tewkesbury C of E Primary School

    Tredworth Junior School

    Tutshill School C of E School

    Upton St Leonards C of E Primary School

    Watermoor C of E Primary School

    Walmore Hill Primary School

    Waterwells Primary School

    Widden Primary School

    Willow Primary Academy

    Woodside Primary School

    Woolaston Primary School

    Yorkley Primary School

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  • All Saints Academy

    Archway School

    Belmont School

    Barnwood Park School

    Balcarras School

    Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre

    Chosen Hill School

    Churchdown School Academy

    Cirencester Deer Park School

    Cirencester Kingshill School

    Cleeve Secondary School

    Dene Magna School and Sixth Form Centre

    Denmark Road High School

    Five Acres High School (formerly Lakers)

    Gloucester Academy

    Henley Bank High School

    Holmleigh Park High School (formerly Beaufort Co-operative Academy)

    Maidenhill Secondary School

    Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre

    Pittville Secondary School

    Rednock School

    Ribston Hall High School

    Severn Vale School

    Sir Thomas Rich’s School

    Sir William Romney’s School

    St Peter’s Catholic School and Sixth Form Centre

    Tewkesbury Academy

    The Crypt School

    The Dean Academy

    The Highschool Leckhampton

    The Forest High School

    Thomas Keble School

    Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre

    YMMChat

    We have a friendly team of YMM professionals who are available to chat on text message during the school day (between 9am until 4:30pm) Monday to Friday (except bank holidays). The team will aim to respond either the same day or the next working day.

    Young people can contact us by text if they want to share something that is worrying them, to get some advice or to self-refer and get an appointment, without needing to ask a parent or a teacher if they would like to chat with one of the 1:1 practitioners to talk things through.

    Telephone: 07480 635723

    (Monday to Friday 9am – 4:30pm)

    Young Minds Matter offer a safe, confidential space to work on the difficulties you are experiencing in a structured and focused way, we use something called Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which helps us to think about how your thoughts (cognitions) impact on your actions (behaviours) and your feelings (emotions). You can speak to someone at school and ask to be referred or us our text service YMM Chat, to confidentially talk to one of our team and the options that are available for you.

    “You can text whenever you need to… everybody feels worried and everybody gets stressed and this will take the pressure off.”

    -Hannah

    Get involved!

    Have you used our service? If you would like to share your experience or to help us to improve the mental health support we provide to children and young people in the county, then leave feedback here>

    Make a referral

    Professional referral

    If you are a professional working with a child or young person you can make a referral using our online referral form.

    Contact details

    Telephone:

    0300 421 4688

    E-mail:

    camhsschoolsymm@ghc.nhs.uk
    For professionals only

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