We support young people with complex mental health presentations in multiple domains who require treatment through a specialist longer term recovery-focused care model, including young people who pose a significant risk to themselves e.g. high levels of self-harm, suicidality or self-neglect.

Our Young Person Profile:

• Aged 16-30

We support young people with complex mental health presentations, including:

• A Formal or Emerging Personality Disorder
• Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Moderate or severe Depression and/or Anxiety
• Psychotic Illnesses
• Attachment Disorder
• Eating Disorders
• Complex risk presentation (including self-harm)
• Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)

There are certain factors that would require additional consideration prior to us offering assessment or placement within our services. These include:

• Significant forensic backgrounds: although not an immediate exclusion criteria, careful consideration is given to referrals with a significant forensic history, accounting for the vulnerabilities and presentation of the other young people placed in each home. Similarly we would be unable to accept young people with persistent high risks to others, for example significant violence and aggression, or fire setting.
• Risk of Childhood Sexual Exploitation (CSE): where a risk of CSE is identified, a screening tool will be used to determine vulnerability factors, how the risk is currently being managed and whether it is being tested out in the current placement, to inform the MDT decision making in our assessment process.

Exclusion Criteria 

• Moderate to severe learning disabilities or Acquired Brain Injury: the capacity of a young person to be able to engage in our model of care, alongside their potential vulnerability within service and the case mix within each home are all taken into consideration when assessing and placing young people with a moderate learning disability or an acquired brain injury. We would request additional supporting information including detailed psychological and LD assessment reports to support our assessment process. We are unable to accept young people into the service who have a severe or profound learning disability.
• No mental health diagnosis: We are unable to accept referrals where a young person’s has no diagnosed mental health condition and/or their primary presentation is behavioural.
• Emergency referrals: due to the complex needs of the young people we support, and our least restrictive approach, it is important to ensure a planned, robust transition into the service, accounting for the development of relationships and the needs of the other young people within the home. Therefore we are unable to accept emergency referrals.