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Medium Concern

Welcome to the ‘Medium Concern’ page. Medium level concern is where you feel you or your child is in need of a greater level of support from services due to increased levels of poor mental health. This area contains a range of more intensive supports that you may find helpful.

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Bereavement
Care Experienced
Drugs/alcohol/ gambling
Feeling Anxious & Worried
My Relationships (friendships)
Suicide prevention
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.

Give us a break

Category:

  • Bereavement

Mental Health Support:

  • Small groups (3-6 individuals), weekly meetings over 8 weeks led by trained facilitators

Eligibility: 

  • Children and young people who have experienced a problematic loss

Age Range:

  • 10 – 14 years (with some flexibility)

Referral Route:

  • Nomination by a member of staff in school or staff from other settings e.g. YFCL, Social Work, Health. Also direct via the website: https://slcpsych.org.uk/

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Education

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Who Cares? Scotland – Advocacy

Category:

  • Care Experienced

Mental Health Support:

  • Provision of Advocacy, Listening, Inclusion opportunities and Building skills/resilience

Eligibility: 

  • Care experienced young people and their family/carers

Age Range:

  • up to 26 years

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work/NHS Lanarkshire

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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U-Turn

Glasgow Council on Alcohol – Young Person Peer Education Harm Reduction Service

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • Early intervention and prevention for young people looking to address stigma and reduce harm caused by alcohol and drugs within their local communities. Peer Educators receive 1:1 support from workers and attend weekly group sessions to build on their confidence, leadership skills and work towards qualifications in a safe and nurturing environment

Eligibility: 

  • see criteria

Age Range:

  • 12 -18 years

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency referral

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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All in the Family (alcohol and drug support)             

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • The service will empower family members to access one-to-one support, group support, learning and development including Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), and events for the whole family

Eligibility: 

  • Anyone who is affected by someone else’s drug or alcohol use

Age Range:

  • 16+ years

Referral Route:

  • Open

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • ADP

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (Scottish Families/The Beacons)

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We are with you

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/gambling

Mental Health Support:

Support to identify and work towards achieving goals. Approaches include:

  • Counselling
  • Medical assistance
  • Residential rehab
  • Telephone support
  • Group work
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Eligibility: 

  • Worried about own or someone else’s drug or alcohol abuse including family members. Those struggling with poverty, poor physical or mental health among those who are addicted to drugs, other similar substances and/or alcohol

Age Range:

  • 16+ years

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social work

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (Who Cares? Scotland)

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The Beacons (alcohol and drug support)

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • Telephone support, Group activity

Eligibility: 

  • Anyone who is affected by someone else’s drug or alcohol use

Age Range:

  • 16+ years

Referral Route:

  • Self-referral by phone or drop in to local centres

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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The GIVIT (Regen: FX) Substance misuse

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/ gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • Support to develop clear pathways into treatment and recovery initiatives using a flexible outreach and wrap around support approach.Young People’s Recovery Community to move the young people into sustainable and visible recovery communities

    Assertive outreach one to one support, CBT counselling, Peer mentoring Youth recovery hubs

Eligibility: 

  • Young people who are struggling with addiction and detached from mainstream services or who struggle to maintain engagement

Age Range:

  • 13 – 24 years

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Social Work

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Liber8

Category:

  • Feeling Anxious & Worried

Mental Health Support:

  • A range of support including counselling

Eligibility: 

  • Experiencing but not limited to, fragile or fractured relationships; anxiety and stress; bereavement and loss; alcohol and or substance misuse issues

Age Range:

  • 16+ years

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Education

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Psychological Services

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GoTo South Lanarkshire (Young Person’s Mental Health service)

Category:

  • Feeling Anxious & Worried

Mental Health Support:

  • Experienced CBT counsellors can be accessed almost immediately for young people experiencing difficulties with their mental health and issues like isolation, anxiety, relationships, family tensions and confidence. 1-1 by phone or face to face and via online platforms. In addition, host a series of Online CBT workshops on Anxiety, relationships and self-esteem

Eligibility: 

  • Young person experiencing difficulties mental health

Age Range:

  • 14 – 18 years

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • Hamilton, Blantyre, Rutherglen, Cambuslang

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (The Richmond Fellowship)

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Covey Befriending

Category:

  • My Relationships (friendships)

Mental Health Support:

A range of individual and group support including:

  • mentoring
  • befriending
  • social interaction
  • signposting
  • peer support
  • confidence building and resilience

Eligibility: 

A range of services can support those with:

  • anxiety
  • mild-moderate depression
  • autism issues
  • self-harm
  • self-injury
  • trauma
  • ASN and their siblings
  • care experience

Age Range:

  • 8 – 26 years (up to 26 years if ASN or care experienced)

Referral Route:

  • Request for assistance from Health, Education or SW professional

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • Larkhall, Hamilton, Blantyre, Rutherglen/Cambuslang depending on project

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Trust Jack Foundation (need to be able to travel to the Stonehouse base

Category:

  • Suicide prevention

Mental Health Support:

  • Mental Health awareness, Suicide prevention. Health and wellbeing services, Therapy, Workshops, Education and activities

Eligibility: 

  • Identified as suffering or at high risk of suffering from a mental illness particularly those who are socially isolated

Age Range:

  • from 5 years +

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • Clydesdale/Larkhall/Stonehouse

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health)

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Kooth

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Online self-help, moderated peer support and professional support from accredited counsellors and emotional wellbeing practitioners. Anonymous registration via Kooth.com provides access to the site which includes articles, forums and 1:1 live chat and messaging

Eligibility: 

  • No threshold or criteria

Age Range:

  • Available for all 10 – 18 year olds (up to 26 for care experienced)

Referral Route:

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • RegenFX & Liber8

Locality:

  • Living in South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Lanarkshire Links

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Recovery initiatives putting a focus on service user and carer perspective, inspiring hope, optimism, and a focus on Recovery

Eligibility: 

  • Experience of mental health problems

Age Range:

  • 16 – 35 years

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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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: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 – 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:

  • Blantyre, Lanark, Cambuslang /Rutherglen, East Kilbride

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (Liber8)

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Regen FX

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Community based projects to address poverty, anti-social behaviour and diversion activity including individual and group activity, peer support, advice and signposting

Eligibility: 

  • Varies by project

Age Range:

  • 8 – 24 years varying by project

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • ADP

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Lanarkshire Association for Mental Health – LAMH

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Community Café and wellbeing hub, Volunteering and employment opportunities, Housing Support, Group Work, Out of Hours Crisis Support and Distress Brief Intervention

Eligibility: 

  • Individuals experiencing a period of crisis in their mental health (not dementia, substance misuse or learning difficulties)

Age Range:

  • 16 – 65 years

Referral Route:

  • If involvement 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:

  • N/A

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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