The Fylde Coast Mental Health Support Team (MHST) works in education settings across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.
The team's aim is for young people to know what to do to look after their emotional wellbeing.
We aim to do this in a non-stigmatising way so that emotional wellbeing and mental health can be championed and talked about in the same way as physical health. We aim to offer timely, direct, psychological interventions to prevent deterioration of emotional wellbeing.
We want to get the right treatment to the right person at the right time and may signpost to a more appropriate local provider or support referral to specialist services.
Where we work
| Blackpool | Wyre | Fylde |
|---|---|---|
| Armfield Academy | Baines High School | St Bedes |
| Blackpool Aspire Academy | Cardinal Allen Catholic HS | Lytham High |
| Blackpool and Fylde College | Fleetwood High School |
AKS |
| Educational Diversity | Hodgson Academy | Carr Hill High |
| Highfield Academy | Great Arley School | Pear Tree |
| Highfurlong SEN School | Millfield Science and Performing | |
| Lotus School | St Aidan's CofE High School | |
| Park School | Brookfield | |
| St George's | Red Marsh | |
| South Shore Academy | Garstang Community Academy | |
| St Mary's Catholic Academy | ||
| Unity Academy | ||
| Woodlands |
SHINE is Fylde Coast Mental Health Support Team and is a service to support young people in achieve in achieving good mental well-being.
We can talk to you and your child individually about what they are finding difficult
We might work with them directly or with your yourselves also to help you feel better
We might put you or your child in touch with other professionals who can offer support. The Senior Mental Health Lead in your young persons education setting will have details of your Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) and Mental Health Practitioner. Alternatively, parents/carers can talk to a teacher about making a SHINE MHST referral for your young person
If a young person has been referred to us, we will contact them initially to discuss the difficulties they are experiencing and look at what they would like to change. We will also speak to the parent/carer
SHINE MHST also accepts self-referrals from parents/carers and students who attend our Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre settings. However, consultations between Senior Mental Health Leads in school and SHINE MHST remain the service’s first point of contact for referrals, as this helps to maintain and build the relationships between education settings and our EMHPs. By offering the self-referral option to students, parents and carers, we are giving students a further way to access support from SHINE MHST and increasing access to early intervention and support in order to improve mental health and wellbeing
It must be remembered that SHINE MHST only supports students with mild to moderate mental health difficulties through time-limited intervention (one-to-one or group support at their school or support over the telephone or online), where symptoms have been present for less than 12 months. If presenting needs are unsuitable for low intense therapy, SHINE MHST can offer signposting to other specialist child and adolescent mental health services.
How to self-refer to the team?
Parents, carers and young people can call us directly to self-refer and our administration team will arrange for our duty practitioner to make a consultation call to parent / carer /young person and complete a self-referral form to establish whether SHINE is the best service to offer support to the young person.
Telephone 0800 121 7762 (Option 4) or email bfwh.
SHINE MHST is not an urgent response service. The service does not provide evidence-based interventions for young people who are at a very high risk or those who present with some complex mental health disorders. We are happy to discuss these cases with you and provide you with advice.
SHINE, the Fylde Coast Mental Health Support Team, is a service to support young people in achieving good mental wellbeing.
- We can talk to you and your parent or carer about what you are finding difficult.
- We might work with you directly or with your parent to help you feel better.
- We might put you or your parent in touch with other professionals who can support you.
How to contact us?
The Senior Mental Health Lead in your education setting will have details of your Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) and Mental Health Practitioner.
Alternatively, talk to your teacher or parent/carer about making a SHINE MHST referral for you. If you have been referred to us we will contact you or your parents to discuss the difficulties you are experiencing and look at what you would like to change. We offer one-to-one or group support at your school or support over the telephone or online.
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SHINE (Fylde Coast Mental Health Support Team) supports good emotional wellbeing and mental health, for children and young people aged 11 -18 years, in secondary schools, special schools, appropriate provision settings and colleges across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.
Our work underpins students learning, achievement, school attendance and participation. We offer:
- Evidence-based, low-intensity interventions for children and young people with mild-to-moderate mental health problems such as low mood, anxiety, family and peer relationship difficulties, difficulty managing emotions and difficulty adjusting to change and transition either one-to-one or in a group setting (usually six to eight sessions based on what the child/young person needs).
- Support to the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school/college approach
- Timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education
How to make a referral
Referrals are accepted from the education settings described above.
Consultations between mental health leads in school and SHINE MHST are the service’s first point of contact for referrals. This helps to maintain and build the relationships between education settings and EMHPs.
SHINE MHST supports students with mild to moderate mental health difficulties through time-limited intervention, where symptoms have been present for less than 12 months. If presenting needs are unsuitable for low intense therapy, SHINE MHST can offer signposting to other specialist child and adolescent mental health services. SHINE MHST is not an urgent response/emergency service.
The service is unable to work with young people who are at a very high risk or those who present with some complex mental health disorders. However, we are happy to discuss these cases with you and provide you with advice about the services locally that can offer support.
