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CNWL CAMHS provides mental and emotional health specialist services for children and young people, and their families.
We help them and their families with emotional, relationship and behavioural difficulties when they are finding it hard to cope with family life, school or the wider world
CNWL CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) provides mental and emotional health specialist services for children and young people, and their families.
We provide specialist NHS services and support to children, young people, families and carers who are experiencing difficulties with their emotional, psychological and mental health. We have teams based across our five London boroughs (Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon) and in the community who can help you and your family to get the support that you need.
You can find out more about how CAMHS can support thoughts, feelings and behaviours you may be experiencing or difficulties you might be having, and where you can get some more support and information in the below links:
- Thoughts and feelings
- Behaviours and experiences
- Identity and relationships
- Mental health conditions and interventions (including medications)
We provide the following services:
- Have you taken a look at the resources page? Our health topics provide information and advice for different emotional and mental health and wellbeing topics that might be useful.
- We have a library of apps, websites and information that you can visit for information and self help options.
- If you feel you need more help and would benefit from speaking to someone in CAMHS, you can speak to your GP who can make a referral to CAMHS for you.
The following is a list of some people you may meet in your CAMHS journey:
- Arts therapists and art psychotherapist
- Child psychotherapist
- Family therapists (family and systemtic psychotherapists)
- Nurses
- Primary mental health workers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists and clinical psychologists
Latest news
“How animal therapy helped us during the Covid-19 pandemic” Lavender Walk young people featured in publication
Posted on 14 December 2020
Children with autism and learning disabilities given greater access to mental health care closer to home
Posted on 30 September 2020
Adolescent Community Treatment Service (ACTS) shortlisted in RCPsych Award 2020
Posted on 7 September 2020
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Healthy London Partnership ( @HealthyLDN ) has many resources for carers on managing during Covid-19 and the lockdown: buff.ly/2YqvfbS #CarersWeek
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To mark Carers’ Week 2020, we asked carers what key messages they’d like staff to know. This is what they told us: buff.ly/2Uyf633 #CarersWeek
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We had recently invited Young Carer Abigail on the @CNWLNHS Community Radio to share her experiences as a young carer: You can watch it here: buff.ly/3ffrcWE #CarersWeek
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#CarersWeek is about 'making caring visible'. 80 per cent of young carers feel more isolated before lockdown. There are some great resources out there to support the #mentalhealth of our young carers: buff.ly/2XW7cTf
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Staff at Harrow Camhs would like to thank @gemsatwork for our delivery of Easter eggs. They really made our day! @CNWLNHS 😋
