Service details
Growing with you: CAMHS for children looked after, accompanied asylum seekers and care experienced
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We are a multidisciplinary team consisting of psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work and other allied therapists.
We can help you with:
- Concerns about your emotional wellbeing and/or mental health
- If there are concerns about your safety and help is needed to manage risk due to your mental health
- Concerns about challenging behaviours
- Risk of placement breakdown
- Transitions e.g. to a move to a new placement.
- Support in care planning
- Diagnosis and treatment of mental health or neurodevelopmental disorders’
- Clinical interventions to support mental health
We offer flexible appointments and as well as seeing young people in our offices, we can offer outreach and see young people in places where you feel more comfortable, such as home or school.
- Borough(s): Camden
- Email: LACAMHSADMIN@tavi-port.nhs.uk
- Age range treated: 0-24
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Address:
5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
- Phone number: 020 8938 2272 and 020 8938 2282
- Service hours: 9am - 5pm
- Conditions treated
- What to expect
- How to access this service
- Useful Information
- What our former service users say
Conditions treated
- Young people who have experienced abuse
- Anxiety
- Attachment and developmental disorders
- Emotional dysregulation
- Low mood/depression
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders such as ADHD and ASC
- PTSD
- Sleep difficulties
- Trauma Symptoms
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Stress related symptoms
- Self-harm/ risk
- Family difficulties
- Placement disruption/instability
- Network support
- Behaviours that challenge
What to expect
Once we receive a referral, we usually have an initial meeting with the referring social worker and other professionals in the network to hear more about you and plans for your care. At this meeting we then plan with the network the best way to engage the young person ie where to meet them and who else should be present.
The first meeting could take place in a council owned building, the young person’s school or where they live. We will meet them wherever they feel comfortable. The clinician will talk to the young person about the referral but at the same time be led by the young person and explore what they think they need help with. Our appointments are between 50 mins and an hour long. At the end of the appointment, we will make a short plan with the young person about the next steps.
How to access this service
Referrals are generally made by social workers or other CAMHS clinicians.
We also accept referrals from GPs and other professionals such as Children Looked After Nurses.
We do not accept self-referrals.
Useful Information
Other support services:
Catch 22 – The Hive — free drop-in health and wellbeing service supporting young people aged 16-24 who are connected to Camden.
The Brandon Centre — charity responding to psychological, social needs and challenges of young people under 25 years old.
What our former service users say
Therapy helped me to deal with some things I felt uncomfortable talking about otherwise, and to get some things off my chest. I learned how to live with anxiety rather than how to get rid of it. I am more sociable now than before, more willing to get out with friends.
Just do it, just go for it! There is a lot of stigma around therapy, but it's not as drastic as people think. I think everyone should have a therapist.
It was really helpful, it teached me a lot. When I tell my story, it feels good. Especially when I cannot sleep in the night and the bad noise comes to me, sharing my story really helps.
