Young Adults Service
Accepting referrals from professionals working with your people who are transitioning away from CAMHS.
Resources for young people, parents and carersFor young people aged 18 to 25 in Derbyshire, who are transitioning away from CAMHS. We only accept referrals from CAMHS professionals.
This service is currently aimed at young people who are being supported by the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and are due to be discharged, but who have continuing support needs.
We know that young people face consistent issues when trying to access mental health services including:
- lack of care continuity
- different thresholds and concepts of what constitutes a mental disorder
- different models of care and expectations for young people
- different intensity of care provided for young people by adult mental health services
- different potential pathways from children’s to adult services, with different destinations
To support these young people aged between 18 and 25, Action for Children and Derbyshire Federation for Mental Health are working in partnership to develop and deliver transition services for Young Adults. The service is a pilot scheme, focussed in Derbyshire.
There are lots of local and national organisations who can support you
Referrals to this service can only currently be made via CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service).
Referrals from CAMHS are received into the service 6-8 weeks prior to planned closure from CAMHS/Children’s Services. Once a referral is received and an initial triage is complete, an allocated Wellbeing Worker will begin introduction sessions with the CAMHS key worker and young person to start to agree key objectives and a progression plan. The CAMHS closure date will be agreed with the Young Adult Transition Service allowing for a seamless transition from one service to appropriate wrap around provision.
A Wellbeing Worker will provide up to 12 sessions of provision before stepping clients down to engagement work or peer support. Equally, young people may be offered up to 12 sessions of engagement work before stepping down to a peer support offer.
Referral Criteria
Before being referred to the service practitioners should consider the following with the young person:
- Is the young person ready and willing to move on?
- Do they require support to build resilience and build on coping strategies?
- Are they ready to engage in wellness planning?
- Are they ready to engage in the community?
- Do they require additional support around neurodiversity?
Further information can be found at https://www.dfmh.co.uk/
Completed Referral forms should be submitted via email to [email protected]
Derbyshire Federation for Mental Health
Unit 7, Lime Tree Business Park
Lime Tree Road
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3EJ
Telephone: 01629 733915
Email: [email protected]
Empowering young people to have autonomy and choice
- Enabling young people to take what they’ve learnt and use it to stay well
- Providing young people with strategies and tools that can be used to transition into adulthood, to thrive and be happy
- Recognising a young person’s value and their contribution to society
- It’s about coproduction – “nothing about me, without me”
- Enabling young people to embrace their own uniqueness and recognising their value in society
- Engendering acceptance, embracing who you are, acknowledging that mental health challenges may be part of you – learning to see as one part not the whole part.
