CouncilChild mental health – including Multi Agency Preventative Project (MAP)
The pressures of life in the city can often weigh heavily on some children, who may experience mental health problems and conflict in their everyday lives.
The Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service is made up of three teams, each including child psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists and social workers, who are all trained to help children cope with the issues and problems in their lives.
The team offers a service to children and young people up to 18-years-old, and their families. The children and young people will be showing feelings or behaviours that are causing their parents or carers some concern.
Families will be offered an appointment by a social worker or one of the health professionals in the team, depending on the needs of the individual child.
During this meeting, these feelings and behaviours can be discussed, with the aim of finding ways of helping children and young people to overcome such difficulties.
Often a series of appointments over a period of several months is necessary to bring about the sort of changes that families are wanting.
Parents, carers and young people can contact the team responsible for providing a service in your area.
For families living in E14:
The Emanuel Miller Centre for families and Children
Gill Street Health Centre
Gill Street
London E14 8HQ
Tel: 020 7515 6633
For families living in E3:
The Child and Family Consultation Service
Wellington Way
London E3 4NE
Tel: 020 8981 1441
For families living in E1/E2
The Child and Family Consultation Service
Royal London Hospital
Whitechapel Road
London E1 1BB
Tel: 020 7377 7390
Multi Agency Preventative Project ( MAP)
The Multi Agency Preventative Project (MAP) in Tower Hamlets is an innovative teenage mental health project addressing the needs of adolescent Bangladeshi boys.
MAP is managed by Social Services and is made up of youth workers, social workers and clinical psychologists. Their goal is to provide support to the Bangladeshi population of boys who face burdens at home and at school.
These teenage boys are confronted by the pressures of living in dual cultures of their family and society. This can create tension and conflict, with some boys showing early symptoms of mental health problems.
The project is involved in preventative work in three secondary schools with more than 70 boys. There is a surgery run by youth workers at the schools offering help and advice. A therapeutic support group meets, following a structured programme dealing with issues that arise. The project also does outreach work with parents and the extended family.
Although self-referral is accepted, referrals to the project is usually through the schools.
For further information please contact the MAP team on 020 7364 2097.
Parenting and mental illness joint working protocol
The parenting and mental illness joint working protocol is intended to assist the following groups:
- All staff working with families in the Child Care Division.
- Staff working in children’s services in health.
- Any staff of any discipline working in integrated mental
health teams. - Staff working on adult psychiatry in-patient wards.
Download the 'Parenting and mental illness joint working protocol' booklet (PDF 848kb)
