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June 2015

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We are:

A Charity led by a Board of Trustees. 35 years’ experience of providing services to young people

under stress / experiencing mental health problems. Currently work across three Greater Manchester authorities:

Manchester, Salford & Trafford. Secondment with the Young Peoples Mental Health Team in

Tameside & Glossop. Three service teams:

1. Counselling & Psychotherapy

2. Youth Work

3. Community Mental Health

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Aims of the service

42nd Street exists to support young people under stress to achieve their full potential. Our core aims are to: Engage with young people under stress;

Provide interventions that promote resilience and recovery;

Ensure that the voice of young people informs and influences service development;

Enable young people to take part in opportunities for personal development and growth;

Improve awareness of the mental health needs of young people and challenge the stigma associated with mental health.

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Young people 13 – 25 (11+ in schools)

Targeted services to learning disabled young people, LGBTQ and BME young women

Referrals are made by young people and a variety of professionals, parents and carers.

Wide range of presenting issues

Depression, anxiety, family relationships, abuse, anger are the most common presenting problems.

Significant number of young people present with self-harm.

Increasing level of complexity of presentation.

Who we work with

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Services to young people

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Flexible entry

points for young

people

Flexible pathways through

the service

Exit from Service – signposting; end of service; referral to specialist services

YOUTH WORK

YOUTH WORK

SOCIAL WORK

SOCIAL WORK

COMMUNITY WORK

COMMUNITY WORK

THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIO

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THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIO

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CREATIVE PROGRAMME

CREATIVE PROGRAMME

Exit from Service – signposting; end of service; referral to specialist services

Inside Out – LGBT & questioning young people (Manchester)

Black Young Women’s Counsellor – currently working in Stretford High School

Disabled young people’s project – with a focus on individual support and group work with young people with a learning disability

Women’s work - Including weekly women’s groups and women’s workers

We Tell You - Black young men’s peer research project (Manchester

Inclusion projects & research

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Examples of recent group work

Monday Drop-in (open to 16+)

Young Women’s Group

Autism Spectrum Disorder Group (16+)

Dealing with Depression & Anxiety Group (CBT based x 3 per year, open to all 17+)

Summer activities programme

Youth leadership and participation programme

Horsefalling exhibition and shop

The Old Trafford ‘Gift Shop’

Wythenshawe Young Men’s Group

The Somebody Project – Body Image and Self Esteem

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Young people’s pathway

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Last year 42nd Street…

2,317 Counselling sessions to 259 young people.

3,756 Informal support sessions to 420 young people.

833 key work sessions to 370 young people.

13 long and short term group work programmes (c.320 sessions) to 370 young people.

25 community-based mental health promotion, arts or issue based group programmes (c.216 sessions) to 872 young people.

806 helpline calls. Helpline information

Training to 22 organisations plus 5 Headz Up Training Programme (funded by Comic Relief) to 621 participants.

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User Profile

DISABILITY:Not Disabled: 75% Disabled: 17% Client chose not to give: 8%

ETHNICITY:BME (inclusive of white Irish and other: 25% White British: 70% Client chose not to give: 5%

GENDER:Male: 32% Female: 67% Trans: 1%

SEXUALITY:LGBQ: 11% Heterosexual: 56% Client chose not to give: 33%

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AGE:Age 16 and under: 33% Age 17 – 20: 38% Age 21 – 25: 29%

AREA:Manchester: 74%

Salford: 12%

Trafford: 14%

Services for other agencies & professionals

Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

Salford CCG and Salford City Council

Trafford CCG

Tameside & Glossop CCG

Manchester City Council -Youth Fund – Body image and self-esteem project

Manchester City Council Equalities Fund – African Caribbean young men’s research project

Henry Smith Charitable Trust – Disabled young people’s project

Heritage Lottery Fund – arts and heritage

Cheadle Royal Health Charitable Trust – ‘You-Lead’, youth leadership programme

Individual donors

Who funds us…

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What Young People value

Feeling better when you walk out of the door than you did when you walked in

Meeting with other young people with the same problems

I am no longer on my own

Feeling safe here

Not being judged

The variety of groups…women’s groups, drop in’s, depression group

It is a confidential service

It’s a safe and secure place, in which the workers treat you with a lot of respect and don't judge you. This therefore helps you to open up and feel safe to

explore feelings.

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