What we do
Trafford children and young people can now benefit from a Children and Young People’s Interim Mental Health offer delivered by the Barnardo’s MyTime Trafford service. The offer is open to children aged 5 to 13 years with mild to moderate emotional difficulties.
Barnardo’s provide services that will support children and young people who live in Trafford to grow up with healthy minds, feel confident and resilient and fulfil their potential.
Support will be provided through small therapeutic groups delivered across the borough with access to individual counselling available in exceptional circumstances.
Barnardo’s Approach
In everything we do, we work with children and young people to be safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful, we deliver our work through the CSSO Framework ©1:
Child-directed: giving a young person the intervention driving seat
System-focused: working with the system to improve relational health
Strengths-based: using a 'what's right with you' approach to build hope & resilience
Outcome-informed: using feedback to shape and personalise each intervention.
We believe that children and young people should be at the centre of any plans about their wellbeing so we will meet with young people to identify:
What they enjoy
What is difficult
What support they would like
Once we understand these factors, we have a number of highly skilled, therapeutically trained team members who provide group work and individual counselling. Our team will work with children and young people to ensure they have an individualised plan to help them achieve the goals they have identified for themselves.
How can I make a referral?
Initially Barnardo’s will only accept referrals directly form professionals: this is an interim offer for Trafford and as such, initially access has been limited. See electronic Referral Form on our Website to make a referral
We can help with
- No child should be left to deal with poor mental health alone so we provide services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing. We have centres where children and young people can visit and have a trained worker they can trust and talk to. We help them build their confidence and get to the root of their difficulties so they can feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful.
- If you are a parent/carer, find out more about Mental health
- If you’re a young person looking for support with your mental wellbeing, find out more
- Search for Mental health services
- Grief can be overwhelming no matter what age you are, but with the right support recovery can begin. We support children who have suffered loss along with their parents/carers through counselling, group work and individual therapy. We also offer consultancy and training to professionals working with bereaved children.
- If you are a parent/carer, find out more about Child bereavement
- Search for Child bereavement services