TAMHS - Targeted Mental Health in Schools Project
 Targeted Mental Health in Schools programme
Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaM HS) is a three-year pathfinder programme aimed at supporting the development of innovative models of therapeutic and holistic mental health support in schools for children and young people aged five to 13 at risk of, and/or experiencing, mental health problems; and their families.
The pathfinder in Sunderland aims to deliver targeted early intervention support for children at risk and their parents through; supporting and training school staff ; providing evidence-based targeted interventions alongside developing an integrated single referral pathway to specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. It will include five secondary schools and their 20 feeder primaries embracing all children in the 5 to 13 age group.
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The programme began in April 2008 when 25 Local Authorities and their corresponding Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) commenced pathfinder work. The LAs and PCTs taking part in this first phase are: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Brighton and Hove, Bury, Cornwall, Coventry, Gateshead, Gloucestershire, Hackney, Kent, Leicester City, Leeds, Lincolnshire, Luton, Merton, Norfolk, North East Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Reading, Suffolk, Southwark, Shropshire, Sunderland, Swindon, and Wolverhampton.
Anne Loadman
CCAMHS Unit,Southwick Primary School,Shakespeare Street,Sunderland,SR5 2JX,0191 5535504
anne.loadman@sunderland.gov.uk
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