Black Country Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Welcome to CAMHS!
CAMHS is the umbrella for a range of services; providing assessment, validated diagnostics and evidence based goal focused treatment, to support and improve the emotional wellbeing, and mental health of children, young people and their families.
Within the Black Country, we value the way that the iThrive model describes the system of people and professionals in a young person’s life. Principles of the THRIVE Framework | i-THRIVE
An important element of the iThrive model, is recognising that children’s needs can be met in a variety of ways, and often the people who know a child best and spend the most time with a child, are best placed to help them find change. When that is not the case, for some, an episode of care with an appropriate professional may be helpful.
Like with any healthcare intervention, it is important for the wellbeing of the child and family that the intervention supports improved wellbeing without disempowering, and this means that we try to agree the right level of care and treatment, and crucially children continue in their normal everyday lives with the usual support they have there. There may be the need to add in professional advice to the advice and experience that the trusted adults in a child’s life offer. Perhaps a brief intervention in a Getting Help level service, such as some counselling, would be the right amount and for some a specialist service, Getting More Help, is needed.
Children can experience significant challenge, and small simple supports can be enough. In fact, childhood is filled with such experiences, and many need only the support in the system around them. For some, some help from other parts of the iThrive system is needed.
BCHFT CAMHS is a specialist mental health service, commissioned to provide interventions to those children, young people and their families, who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
We currently support young people up to the age of 18 with a GP registered in the Black Country (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton) area.
Your Local CAMHS Service
You can find out about your local CAMHS Service by visiting the pages below:
Dudley CAMHS
Sandwell CAMHS
Walsall CAMHS
Wolverhampton CAMHS
Where are we located?
Black Country CAMHS services are based within Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
You can visit our Contact Us page (link below) to find out about our locations, to take a virtual tour of each site and to contact us.
Contact Us
Referrals
Our Black Country CAMHS services accept referrals from professionals, for example:
- GPs
- Social Workers
- Health Visitors
- School Professionals
- Paediatricians / Hospital Doctors
- Paediatric Occupational Therapists
- Specialist Nurses
- School Nurses
You can access our Black Country CAMHS Referral Forms here:
CAMHS Referrals
Safeguarding
You can read about Safeguarding at CAMHS here:
Safeguarding