Share your experiences of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
We want to hear from you if you've tried to access CAMHS in the last two years. Please read on to find out more about Healthwatch Stockport's two CAMHS forums, taking place this month, and the surveys that Healthwatch Greater Manchester are running.
Children's Mental Health as one of the Priorities
Healthwatch Greater Manchester......
"Healthwatch in Greater Manchester (GM) have identified children’s mental health as one of its joint GM priorities working alongside the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board. Working with Healthwatch Stockport we are committed to ensuring Stockport voices are heard as part of this work.
We know there are long waiting times for young people to be seen and we want to investigate how this is affecting families, we want to understand your experience of understanding pathways, accessing interim support and communication with services. We want to hear your experience, whether you are a young person or a parent or carer of someone who has tried to access CAMHS in the last rwo years".
The findings from across Greater Manchester will form a report that will be taken to the GM Integrated Care Board for Action. It will help influence decisions being made to improve access to health and care services.
Hearing From Our Stockport Community - Join a Forum!
You are invited to take part in one of two focus groups being held in March. Whether you're a young person or parent or Carer of someone who has tried to access CAMHS services, you can join one of the following dates:
Monday 25 March 10am-12pm - Quaker House Meeting Rooms, Stockport
Tuesday 26 March 6.30pm-8.00pm - online (a link will be sent to join)
If you would like to attend one of the meetings above, please contact our team:
0161 974 0753
Share Your Experiences Online
Healthwatch Greater Manchester have a launched a survey to gather young people's personal experiences, as well as a separate survey open to parents and carers for them to share their experience of supporting their children. We want to know more about the pathway to accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), as well as the Autism/ADHD diagnostic paths.
If you're a child aged 13 and over who started looking for support within the past 2 years, you can take part in the survey below:
Children and young people's survey
If you're a parent or who has supported a child or young person trying to access care, please use the link below:
Feel free to be completely open and honest. The information collected will always be anonymised, which means that it will not be possible for someone to identify you by your answers. Please take care not to include any personal details in free text boxes (e.g. name and address).
