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. We are a CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST).

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The team can offer you support if you are struggling with things like anxiety, low mood 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 your 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 135 schools across the county.

The project started in December 2018 when Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group worked with Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust 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 can only accept referrals for pupils from participating schools. Our list of schools is listed below. If your school is not on this list, please 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

Cathobuttonc 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

buttonnden 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 Cathobuttonc Primary School

St Thomas More Cathobuttonc 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 Romneys 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

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Make a referral

School referral

If you are 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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