The Brent Centre has been providing support to students and teachers since 1999. We provide mental health services to young people through a range of local schools. Our aim continues to be to provide a timely, flexible service to our schools, especially in times of crisis.
We provide mental health services to young people through a range of local schools. At each of these locations our therapists are available to offer help and support to young people. The type of help we offer varies in each location, and can include the following:
Young people are referred for one-to-one therapy for as long as needed.
Helping schools and families think about the young person's needs and to support further referrals, if required.
We often offer this clinical input to young people in sixth form and those undertaking GCSEs. During this short-term intervention the young person and therapist focus on specific difficulties.
When a member of school staff is concerned about a young person, we often engage in consultation to support them through challenging situations.
It is often necessary to work with parents/guardians to address key concerns relating to a patient and assist in delivering effective support.
“It seems an appropriate time to say how grateful I am for the support of [the Centre’s clinicians] throughout this year. The difference they have made to so many of the most vulnerable students in our school is incredible and on an individual level I am conscious that there have been lives that have been transformed because of the work that has gone on. I would also like to acknowledge their support with social care and CAMHS referrals, [their] signposting of other agencies for additional support and …supervision work with both the chaplain and myself. If the BYCP was not working with our school, our mental health support would be so immeasurably poorer. I hope that it continues for many years.”
