1. June 2015 1

2. We are:  A Charity led by a Board of Trustees.  35 years’ experience of providing services to young people under stress / experiencing mental health problems.  Currently work across three Greater Manchester authorities: Manchester, Salford & Trafford.  Secondment with the Young Peoples Mental Health Team in Tameside & Glossop.  Three service teams: 1. Counselling & Psychotherapy 2. Youth Work 3. Community Mental Health 2

3. Aims of the service 42 nd Street exists to support young people under stress to achieve their full potential.  Our core aims are to:  Engage with young people under stress;  Provide interventions that promote resilience and recovery;  Ensure that the voice of young people informs and influences service development;  Enable young people to take part in opportunities for personal development and growth;  Improve awareness of the mental health needs of young people and challenge the stigma associated with mental health. 3

4.  Young people 13 – 25 (11+ in schools)  Targeted services to learning disabled young people, LGBTQ and BME young women  Referrals are made by young people and a variety of professionals, parents and carers.  Wide range of presenting issues  Depression, anxiety, family relationships, abuse, anger are the most common presenting problems.  Significant number of young people present with self-harm.  Increasing level of complexity of presentation. Who we work with 4

5. Services to young people 5 Flexible entry points for young people Flexible pathways through the service Exit from Service – signposting; end of service; referral to specialist services YOUTH WORK SOCIAL WORK COMMUNITY WORK THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS CREATIVE PROGRAMME Exit from Service – signposting; end of service; referral to specialist services

6.  Inside Out – LGBT & questioning young people (Manchester)  Black Young Women’s Counsellor – currently working in Stretford High School  Disabled young people’s project – with a focus on individual support and group work with young people with a learning disability  Women’s work - Including weekly women’s groups and women’s workers  We Tell You - Black young men’s peer research project (Manchester Inclusion projects & research 6

7. Examples of recent group work  Monday Drop-in (open to 16+)  Young Women’s Group  Autism Spectrum Disorder Group (16+)  Dealing with Depression & Anxiety Group (CBT based x 3 per year, open to all 17+)  Summer activities programme  Youth leadership and participation programme  Horsefalling exhibition and shop  The Old Trafford ‘Gift Shop’  Wythenshawe Young Men’s Group  The Somebody Project – Body Image and Self Esteem 7

8. Young people’s pathway 8

9. Last year 42 nd Street…  2,317 Counselling sessions to 259 young people.  3,756 Informal support sessions to 420 young people.  833 key work sessions to 370 young people.  13 long and short term group work programmes (c.320 sessions) to 370 young people.  25 community-based mental health promotion, arts or issue based group programmes (c.216 sessions) to 872 young people.  806 helpline calls. Helpline information  Training to 22 organisations plus 5 Headz Up Training Programme (funded by Comic Relief) to 621 participants. 2013-14

10. User Profile DISABILITY: Not Disabled: 75% Disabled: 17% Client chose not to give: 8% ETHNICITY: BME (inclusive of white Irish and other: 25% White British: 70% Client chose not to give: 5% GENDER: Male: 32% Female: 67% Trans: 1% SEXUALITY: LGBQ: 11% Heterosexual: 56% Client chose not to give: 33% 10 AGE: Age 16 and under: 33% Age 17 – 20: 38% Age 21 – 25: 29% AREA: Manchester: 74% Salford: 12% Trafford: 14%

11. Services for other agencies & professionals

12.  Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)  Salford CCG and Salford City Council  Trafford CCG  Tameside & Glossop CCG  Manchester City Council -Youth Fund – Body image and self- esteem project  Manchester City Council Equalities Fund – African Caribbean young men’s research project  Henry Smith Charitable Trust – Disabled young people’s project  Heritage Lottery Fund – arts and heritage  Cheadle Royal Health Charitable Trust – ‘You-Lead’, youth leadership programme  Individual donors Who funds us… 12

13. What Young People value Feeling better when you walk out of the door than you did when you walked in Meeting with other young people with the same problems I am no longer on my own Feeling safe here Not being judged The variety of groups…women’s groups, drop in’s, depression group It is a confidential service It’s a safe and secure place, in which the workers treat you with a lot of respect and don't judge you. This therefore helps you to open up and feel safe to explore feelings. 13

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