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Camden CAMHS launches name change competition

Camden Council launches competition to find new name for CAMHS after residents found the existing name stigmatizing.

YM survey: Two thirds of councils cut CAMHS services

Freedom of Information request finds two thirds of councils have cut CAMHS budgets since 2010.

Young people survey on CAMHS feedback

YoungMinds are seeking the views of young people on providing information about their CAMHS experience.

Transitions: Across the Bridge

West Midlands Regional VIK Support Worker Marcia Harvey looks at the Bridge Project, a study of young people's transitions from child and adolescent mental health services to adult mental health services in the West Midlands.

Getting young people's voice heard

Erin Wright, our VIK London Regional Support Worker, is working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to get young people's voice heard in Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Implementing the Mental Health Strategy

YoungMinds Paula Lavis looks at how the Department of Health, The Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition and the Afiya Trust brought together 'key implementers' of the mental health strategy.

Making sure Looked After Young People have Looked After Mental Health

"I'm not like Tracy Beaker"

YoungMinds' Charlotte Levene looks at the stigma surrounding mental health with Looked After Young People

The campaign to protect CAMHS continues

As part of our continuing campaign to protect children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) YoungMinds has written to all council leaders in England urging them to protect CAMHS budgets.

Stories of change: from paperwork to participation

How a staff nurse at a CAHMS inpatient unit in Yorkshire created more dialogue between young people and staff.