https://www.compass-uk.org/services/compass-birmingham-mhst/

Compass has been awarded the Birmingham Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) Service (wave 9). The MHST is a FREE prevention and early intervention service providing mental health and emotional wellbeing support to selected education settings in Birmingham. It is aligned to the aspirations set out in the ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’ Green Paper.

Compass are now in the process of signing up education settings to receive support from the MHST and help in shaping the implementation of the new service. They are sending out a sign-up form to confirm which educational settings would like to be involved in the programme.

Taking part would mean you need to agree to the following:

• Identify a named senior lead/point of contact to work with the project lead in setting up MHSTs (who may be part of the senior leadership team or with express senior team endorsement)
• Commit to involve children and young people and their families/carers in the design and set-up of the teams.
• Commit to the key aims and principles of the program.
• Commit to engage fully with monitoring and evaluation requirements.
• Ensure that the introduction of the MHST will complement, rather than replace existing support.