Feeling Good Week is a Hertfordshire-wide event that sees schools and the wider community promoting young people’s emotional wellbeing, raising awareness of mental health and where to access support with the community.
In 2018, it runs from Monday 19 February until Saturday 25 February, with all kinds of special projects planned to boost the wellbeing of children and young people in Hertfordshire.
If you are concerned about a child or young person, you can refer them or get advice.
Phone 0300 777 0707 between 8am and 7pm
Email: hpft.spa@nhs.net
Out of hours, call the mental health helpline on 01438 843322 between 5pm and 8am.
Is it an emergency?
Shelf Help provides 13 to 18 year olds with quality information, support and advice on a wide-range of mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders and self-harm, as well as difficult experiences like bullying and exams.
Currently, Hertfordshire's emotional and wellbeing services for children and young people are commissioned through a tiered system, explained below. We are developing a new approach to emotional wellbeing services for children and young people in Hertfordshire. Called iThrive, it places an emphasis on prevention and early intervention. There's more information about iThrive here.
CAMHS stands for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
In Hertfordshire we use the term CAMHS to cover services that support the emotional and mental health of children and young people like school counselling, play therapy and more specialist teams like the eating disorder service.
At the moment we are going through a programme called CAMHS Transformation where we are increasing the amount of help available, particularly early on and trying to improve the experience children and young people using services have.
