CAMHS offers lots of different kinds of therapy. In this episode, you have a great opportunity to learn about Art Therapy from Kat Fusco - one of our CAMHS Art Therapists and two of our service users. During the discussion, you will hear first-hand accounts from our service users of how art therapy helped them to recover and how valuable it is as a way of communicating when words are difficult to find. Kat also discusses how art therapy is used, what happens throughout the process of treatment and why it's so powerful.

So take this privileged opportunity to listen in on their discussion..

Are you interested in being a volunteer in our CAMHS Service?

We have a really exciting new voluntary role in our Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS Senior Management Team (SMT) meeting, as our new Parent /Carer Representative. This is a brand new role so you can help us to shape this moving forward. You will be an essential and valued part of our team.

You would have a key role in shaping the way we run our services across to two counties, two commissioning teams and three local authorities. You will be key in putting forward the perspective of the community, asking questions about why we do what we are doing? Challenge us to do things better and giving us some accountability.

For more information, come listen and download the documents below..!

VOLUNTEER CAMHS Parent Carer Rep ROLE DESCRIPTION

Welcome to the second episode of CAMHS Talk. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to come to CAMHS for the first time and wished you could talk to someone who has? In this episode, two of our service users share their experiences and talk openly with Niki Scott, Service Participation Lead and Sharon Latchman, Specialist Practitioner about their thoughts, first impressions and what it's like to work with a therapist. In this discussion, we cover issues such as the importance of trust, confidentiality, how the treatment is agreed and how the therapist supports the young person when things get difficult.

If you are a parent or a young person who is thinking of comming to CAMHS, this could be useful to you...

Welcome to the FIRST episode of the CAMHS Talk podcast - and we are so very excited to be able to bring you the very best interviews and discussions between the service professionals and our very knowledgeable service users. We have trawled the internet and (so far) haven't found another Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) that have brought together their service users and their professionals in this way. This is such a good opportunity for us all to discuss and debate issues around child and adolescent mental health and it's such a pleasure for us to share this with you.

In this episode, Niki Scott and Aisling Callaghan talk to four service users about the role of the user participation group, the benefits of being part of the group and how they help shape the service. During the discussion, the service users also discuss and reflect on how they have found benefit for themselves in being able to shape the service.

So sit back and listen.. it's an interesting discussion..

Just thought I'd give you a quick update about what's happened so far, what's in the planning and when we launch (if you don't know already). Also - If you haven't found us on Twitter - come over - @CAMHSTalk where you can be part of the conversation..

Hi and welcome to CAMHS talk, a new podcast about child and adolescent mental health. Take a listen to hear what we are doing..!