Islington Targeted Youth Support (TYS)

TYS work alongside other services including Children’s Social Care, Early Help Family Support provide additional support for young people and their families. This also includes step downs from Children’s Social Care and Youth Offending Service. TYS deliver programmes for young people who have been arrested for a low gravity offence to divert them from the Criminal Justice System. This includes a health screening by the Liaison and Diversion nurse to identify further support needs.

TYS teams also deliver work in local primary and secondary schools covering issues such as substance misuse, positive and healthy relationships, keeping safe, gangs, weapons awareness and joint enterprise.

TYS retain a strong emphasis on community-based delivery providing support within local community settings and working with local neighbourhood services to help community cohesion and prevent escalation of anti-social behaviour (ASB). TYS deploy youth trucks and detached teams across Islington based on intelligence and ASB reports, working with young people where they meet and congregate, encouraging them to participate in group work and connecting them into their local areas.

Everyone has times in their life when they could do with a bit of extra help and support. Seeing a counsellor can be helpful if there is some personal or emotional issue in your life that you are having difficulties dealing with. You might, for example, have difficult decisions to make or feel confused about a relationship, or about any other aspect of your life. Or you may have painful emotions or experiences that you want to sort out.

Counselling will give you the chance to talk to a trained person in private who will listen to how you feel and try to help you to see if there are any changes you may want to make in your life. Counselling is not about being judged or being told what you should do

To make an initial appointment, contact our counsellor Myrto Williams

Tel: 0207 572 5099/07525925792

Email: YCSMAS@islington.gov.uk

Alternatively someone else can contact us on your behalf e.g. Doctor, teacher, friends etc.

We will make an appointment for an initial session with you. You can meet the counsellor who will explain how the service works. You can ask any questions you might have and decide for yourself if counselling feels right for you. This session also gives the counsellor an opportunity to find out if there is any other form of support you may need. If you decide to continue after the initial session we can offer a further twelve 50 minute sessions. After this we will then evaluate and agree whether any further support is needed.

This service is free and confidential. We will always try to see you as soon as possible, but when the service is really busy we will put you on our waiting list and contact you as soon as a place comes up or suggest other places that might be able to help.