Posted on: 17 July 2024
Today (16 July), CNWL officially launched an under 5’s service in Brent. The CAMHS Under 5’s service specialises in brief parent child interventions and offers community-based consultations. It’s designed to help metal health and the emotional wellbeing’s of little ones.
This space will be available to little ones to enjoy arts and crafts, games and some theatre and drama.
The day kicked off with talks from Claudia de Campos, Service lead for Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon who explained how the services would help little ones. Followed by an interview style session with a former service user’s parent, she described how the services help her and her son. She said “I had a lot of empowerment as a mother”.
As an early intervention service, they seek to engage with complex family dynamics and systems at the earliest stage of the child presenting as stuck in their development. A quick response helps to engage and support the family to realign the child on a better health trajectory.
Common difficulties identified are:
- Being overly clingy/anxious
- Anxious leaving the house
- Excessive and frequent temper tantrums
- Highly active
The service then offers:
- Consultations to parents and carers
- Consultations to professionals
- Observations – can also be school based
- Parent- child sessions
- Signposting
The under 5s service is open 9am to 5pm, and is not an emergency service.
If you have a safeguarding concern, please contact social care on 0208 937 4300