Mental health is everybody’s business but often it can be difficult to know what support and services are available for children, young people, and their families. Using the Thrive Framework, Making Mental Health Everybody’s Business aims to help practitioners navigate the system, identify what resources are available and how to access them in line with the appropriate level of need.
Making Mental Health Everybody’s Business.pdf
Thrive framework
Durham County Council is in the early stages of adopting the THRIVE framework to organise support for children, young people, and their families.
THRIVE is an integrated, person centred, and needs led approach to delivering mental health services for children, young people, and their families. The approach was developed by a collaboration of authors from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
Adopting the THRIVE Framework means that Durham County Council Children and Young People’s Services together with wider council and community partners are creating coherent and resource-efficient mental health and wellbeing support for children, young people, and families.
The first aim is to talk about mental health and mental health wellbeing and support a common language that everyone understands.
The THRIVE Framework thinks about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people, and families through five different needs-based groupings: Getting Advice and Signposting, Getting Help, Getting More Help, and Getting Risk Support. Emphasis is placed on the prevention and promotion of mental health and wellbeing across the whole population. Children, young people, and their families are empowered through active involvement in decisions about their care, which is fundamental to the approach.
Further information on the THRIVE framework, including a short animation, can be found on the I-Thrive website.
Further sources of information
- Family Hubs for advice and practical support across all aspects of family life.
- County Durham Families Information Service is a signposting service for families who live in County Durham.
- Locate is an online directory helping residents in County Durham to connect with local services in their community.
- Local Offer – support for children and young people (from birth to 25 years) with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
- Durham’s Self-Harm Guidance for Professionals working with children and young people is for practitioners who support children and young people who self-harm or express thoughts about this or about suicide.
- Critical Incident Guidance – A guide for schools and educational settings in Durham.pdf aims to outline the support offer available through the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Partnership for schools and education settings to help them when they are affected by a sudden loss or a critical incident.
- You can download and print Mental health and emotional support for adults in County Durham.pdf as a great starting point to help you access support for adults in County Durham
- You can also download and print CYP MH Rainbow Resource December 23.pdf as a great starting point to help you access support for Children and Young People in County Durham