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High Concern

Welcome to the ‘High Concern’ page. High level concern is where you or your child are struggling with poor mental health and are in need of intensive supports to provide help that can ease and treat specific conditions. This area contains a range of services to further support you with this. Many of these services require a referral from a GP, teacher, school nurse or social worker.

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CAMHS
Domestic Abuse
Drugs/alcohol/gambling
Feeling anxious/worried
I need to talk to someone now 
Ways to help my wellbeing

NOTE – Whilst aiming to provide the best quality information possible, we do not recommend or endorse any particular service which is listed, offer advice about choice of service and have no responsibility for any support provided.

CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) 

Category:

  • CAMHS & Neurodevelopmental Services

Mental Health Support:

  • Gain an understanding of the mental health needs of the young person and their family then provide specialist skills matched to meet that need

Eligibility: 

  • Moderate to severe emotional, behavioural mental health difficulties

Age Range:

  • Birth to 18th birthday if the young person is still in high school education

Referral Route:

  • Written request from education or medical staff who have good knowledge of the child and the child/young person and parent/carer if appropriate have consented

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Learning Disability Service

Category:

  • CAMHS & Neurodevelopmental Services

Mental Health Support:

  • Specialist mental health care and consultations with health professionals, education and social work to improve the wellbeing of a child

Eligibility: 

  • Young people with moderate, severe or profound learning disability with suspected additional mental health issues

Age Range:

  • 5 – 18 years

Referral Route:

  • Written request from education or medical staff who have good knowledge of the child and the child/young person and parent/carer if appropriate have consented

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Care Experienced Young People (CCEYP)

Category:

  • CAMHS & Neurodevelopmental Services

Mental Health Support:

  • A direct therapeutic service to infants, children and young people. Therapeutic parenting and group work with carers and staff. Consultation and training to multidisciplinary teams. The service aims to support and improve young people’s mental health.

Eligibility: 

  • Infants, children and young people who are currently in foster care or residential children’s’ homes in Lanarkshire.

Age Range:

  • 0 – 18 years

Referral Route:

  • Referrals come through the allocated social worker or GP.

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (NHSL CAMHS)
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Intensive Treatment Team (CITT)

Category:

  • CAMHS & Neurodevelopmental Services

Mental Health Support:

  • Provide intensive support and treatment to young people who are already involved in CAMHS. Provide support and advice to parents or carers who are struggling with their child’s illness. CITT also provides support to inpatient paediatric wards at Wishaw General Hospital

Eligibility: 

  • Young people who require short intensive intervention

Age Range:

  • 0 – 18 years

Referral Route:

  • Referrals are accepted from other CAMHS services such as locality teams, Reach Out, CAMHS Learning Disability Service and CAYP (Care Accommodated Young People)

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Reach Out

Category:

  • CAMHS & Neurodevelopmental Services

Mental Health Support:

  • The CAMHS Reach Out Team provides a mental health service for infants, children and young people whose emotional wellbeing/ mental health is impacted by severe and enduring mental illness experienced by their parent(s), carer(s) or other close family member. The young people referred will be having difficulties with emotional, psychological and/or behavioural difficulties which are significantly impacting on their day to day lives. The indication will be that the parental/ familial mental illness will be a significant contributor to the difficulties experienced by the young person. The team offers consultation, expertise and training to the wider multi- disciplinary network focusing on: infant mental health; the parent-child relationship; and the impact of severe and enduring mental ill health in the family system.

Eligibility: 

  • infants, children, young people who are affected by parental mental ill health

Age Range:

  • 0 – 18

Referral Route: 

  • Written request from education or medical staff who have good knowledge of the child and the child/young person and parent/carer if appropriate have consented

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (NHSL CAMHS)

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Paediatric Psychology Service

Category:

  • CAMHS & Neurodevelopmental Services

Mental Health Support:

  • Provides direct clinical support and treatment to children and young people with a range of medical conditions

Eligibility: 

  • Young person has to have a paediatrician

Age Range:

  • 0 – 18 years

Referral Route: 

  • Referrals are accepted from other health professionals

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

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Lanarkshire Rape Crisis

Category:

  • Domestic Abuse and Violence

Mental Health Support:

  • Support for people who have been raped or sexually assaulted at any time in their lives.

Eligibility: 

  • Living in Lanarkshire

Age Range:

  • 12+

Referral Route:

  • Self referral or agency referral

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Rape Crisis Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Rape Crisis Lanarkshire
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Women’s Aid South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire (WASLER)

Category:

  • Domestic Abuse

Mental Health Support:

  • Provide support for women and children affected by domestic abuse

Eligibility: 

  • Woman or children affected by domestic abuse

Age Range:

  • All

Referral Route: 

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Circle Scotland

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/ gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • Whole family support service to promote children’s healthy development

Eligibility: 

  • Families affected by substance misuse

Age Range:

  • All

Referral Route: 

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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CAReS – Community Addiction Recovery Service

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/ gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • Full assessment of needs and co-ordination of a health and social care recovery planHelp with detoxing from alcohol or drugs, substitute prescribing, talking therapies or harm reduction information

    Encouragement to explore ways of gaining support in recovery, by thinking about important relationships within your life and local community (for example mutual aid groups)

    Assessment to identify mental health problems for drug users, suicide risk assessment/prevention, brief intervention, crisis resolution, dual diagnosis, screening

Eligibility: 

  • Individuals dependent on drugs and/or alcohol

Age Range:

  • 16+ years

Referral Route: 

  • Agency or self-referral

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Health

Locality:

  • Clydesdale, Hamilton, Rutherglen/Cambuslang, East Kilbride

Delivering Organisation:

  • Health & Social Work

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Infant Mental Health

Category:

  • Feeling anxious/worried

Mental Health Support:

  • The new service is dedicated to developing an infant-centred specialist service and provide support

Eligibility: 

  • Via Health Visitors

Age Range:

  • 0 – 3 years old

Referral Route: 

  • Via Health Visitors

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

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Perinatal Mental Health

Category:

  • Feeling anxious/worried

Mental Health Support:

  • This specialist service is to support existing provision in identifying and managing women with mental health problems in relation to childbearing, which we have defined as pregnancy and up to 12 months postnatal. We will also offer preconception advice for those women at risk

Eligibility: 

  • See referral criteria

Age Range:

  • Perinatal

Referral Route: 

  • Self or Agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

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DBI (Distress Brief Intervention)

Category:

  • I need to speak to someone now

  • Feeling anxious/worried

Mental Health Support:

  • DBI is a non-clinical intervention, consisting of two interrelated parts. Level 1 sees trained front-line staff such as health, police, ambulance and primary care staff help ease the person’s distress, provide a compassionate response and where appropriate, involves an offer of a seamless referral, with confidence and clarity to a DBI Level 2 service. Level 2 is provided by commissioned and trained third sector staff who contact the person within 24-hours of referral and provide community-based problem solving support, wellness and distress management planning, supported connections and signposting. North Lanarkshire the 3rd sector partner is Lifelink and South Lanarkshire the 3rd sector partners are LAMH and The Richmond Fellowship.

Eligibility: 

  • Support for those with an emotional  distress presenting to frontline services including A&E, Police, Ambulance, GP, and NHS 24

Age Range:

  • Schools can refer pupils from S3 and upwards. C&YP not in education can be referred by trained staff from frontline services.

Referral Route:

  • Within North Lanarkshire the schools are: Bellshill Academy, Kilsyth Academy, Airdrie Academy and Coltness High. Within South Lanarkshire the schools who can refer include: Strathaven Academy, Larkhall Academy, St Andrews and St Brides and Stonelaw Academy.  Frontline services with appropriate DBI level 1 training such as GPs, NHS 24, Police Scotland, Scottish Ambulance Service and Lanarkshire Emergency Departments

Website:

Contact Details:

Schools

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • North Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Lifelink
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CMHT (Community Mental Health Teams)

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Provide a comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment and care management service for individuals and their families, inclusive of treatment, care, support and information

Eligibility: 

  • Mental health difficulty and complex needs

Age Range:

  • 18+ (16+ if not in education)

Referral Route: 

  • Doctor or other health or social care professional

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

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Connect

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Practical and emotional support for those experiencing mental health difficulties to live as fully and independently as possible. One-to-one and group work provision depending on needs

Eligibility: 

  • Focus on those with severe and enduring mental health problems. Some service availability for those not engaged with any specialist mental health services

Age Range:

  • 16 years – 65 years

Referral Route: 

  • If already involved with specialist mental health services referral from health or social care professional.
    If not involved with specialist services, self-referral

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • Hamilton, Blantyre, Rutherglen, Cambuslang

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (The Richmond Fellowship)

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Mental Health Occupational Therapy 

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • The Mental Health Occupational Therapy Service works with people aged 16 and above in mental health settings across Lanarkshire

Eligibility: 

  • Mental health difficulty and complex needs

Age Range:

  • 16+ years

Referral Route:

  • Self-Referral

Website:

Contact Details:

South Lanarkshire
  • Call 01698 752974 general enquiry office (South Lanarkshire)
  • Kirklands, Fallside Rd, Bothwell, Glasgow, G71 8BB
North Lanarkshire
  • April Michie (North Lanarkshire)
    Locality Lead Occupational Therapist North Lanarkshire
  • Call 01698 373294

Lead Agency:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • NHS Lanarkshire

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Relational Mentoring

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Our mentors’ holistic approach will give you one-to-one support to better understand the wider needs of the household and support you in addressing them to break down barriers and achieve positive progress. This may include support for skills, employability, community justice, and home energy.

Eligibility: 

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Age Range:

  • 16 years plus

Referral Route: 

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • South Lanarkshire Council Psychological Services

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • South Lanarkshire Children’s Services partnership

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