Islington CAMHS Early Years Service (EYS)

Islington Community CAMHS

What is it?

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  • Service that helps families & young children grow & be happy.
  • Four clinical teams help families, depending on age.
  • One training team works with professionals. 
  • Provides support for emotional wellbeing & mental health.

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Published: 27/12/23

Information

Our work is aimed at supporting parents, babies and young children promoting child development, positive parent-child relationships and supporting children’s and parent’s emotional well-being and mental health.

The Early Years Service (EYS) is made up of four teams / services. More information about these services can be found below.

We also offer training for professionals.

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  • The Parent and Baby Psychology Service (antenatally to 2 years old)

    We know that adjusting to parenthood can be challenging and can lead to difficult feelings that can sometimes interfere with the enjoyment of parenting. The Parent and Baby Psychology Service (PBPS) offers help to parents to be and parents with a baby under one in this situation.

    Learn more about this service by visiting this page.

  • Growing Together: Support for Parents and Young Children (1-5)

    Growing Together works with the adults and children (aged 1-5) in a family to support their mental health and wellbeing. This support might be for problems with emotions, behaviours and or relationships. We welcome referrals and self-referrals from families from diverse backgrounds, cultures and non-heteronormative families. 

    Learn more about this service by visiting this page.

  • CAMHS in Bright Start Islington Children’s Centre Service (0-5)

    CAMHS clinicians work in each of the 16 children’s centres in Islington, and across each of the 3 Bright Start Islington Areas (North, Central and South). We also work with Private, Voluntary and Independent nurseries and Islington School nurseries, with children with Priority Early Learning places.

    We offer up to 5 sessions of assessment and support to young parents and children, if there are concerns about a child’s emotional well-being, behaviour or development. To more about this service, visit this page.
     

  • The Incredible Years Parenting Groups Service (1-6)

    The Early Years Parenting Groups Service runs Incredible Years parenting groups for parents of toddlers and young children, in Islington Children’s Centres.

    To learn more about this service, visit this page.

  • Tiny Tips (training for professionals)

    Tiny Tips stands for trauma-informed practices in Islington Early Years settings. It is a team of CAMHS clinicians working with children’s centres and nurseries to increase awareness about the prevalence of trauma; what it is and how it affects children’s emotional wellbeing and behaviour. Currently 12 children’s centres are involved in the project.

    To learn more about this team, visit this page.

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Who will I work with?

The EYS is made up of CAMHS clinicians including: Clinical Psychologists, Parent-Infant Psychotherapists, Child Psychotherapists, Family Therapists and Educational Psychotherapists, who have lots of experience of working with babies, young children and families.

The team’s work is supported by Assistant Psychologists, Placement Students and an Administrator.

Referral information

All SEMH / CAMHS referrals are processed through our single point of access.

For more information or to make a referral, please visit our SEMH page.

Contact info

Contact information

SEMH front door (new referrals and general enquiries): 020 7527 3355

Central CAMHS Enquiries (open referrals): 020 3316 1824

Address: The Northern Health Centre, 580 Holloway Road, London N7 6LB

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