Services

We aim to bridge the gaps between CAMHS, adult mental health, education, and children's services by providing:

• Early intervention and support in collaboration with alongside existing services
• Specialist parenting assessment and intervention to parents with mental health difficulties and complex psychosocial needs
• Specialist advice, consultation, and training

Our team uses a proactive outreach and therapeutic approach to positively engage families. The team primarily works with parents, however, we do also work directly with children and young people, where appropriate.

The Team's work uses a whole-family approach that:

• Improves the life chances of children, builds family resilience, and reduces risk
• Recognises the inter-related needs of children, parents, and the family as a whole
• Uses partnership-based and family focused approaches that share and enhance the knowledge and expertise of the family and professional network
• Tailors effective invention, care, and support to meet the needs of the family.

The Helping Families team is a programme developed by the Centre for Parent and Child Support (CPCS). We work in partnership with other programmes developed by CPCS:

• Empowering Parents Empowering Communities
• Family Partnership Model

The Croydon Home Treatment Team provides a short-term community-based treatment and care package aimed at facilitating recovery at home for people in crisis, who would otherwise require inpatient care.We provide care for people between 18-65 years old, who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

Our service brings together different health and social care staff, working closely with service users, their family/carers, GPs and other agencies, as required.