Merton Uplift
Merton Uplift/ NHS Merton Talking Therapies is a Wellbeing Mental Health service that provides talking therapies for adults (18+) in Merton.
They can help if people are experiencing anxiety or stress, depression, eating problems, bereavement or loss, sleeping difficulties, anger issues, obsessive-compulsive behaviours and many other everyday problems. They also help people to overcome psychological trauma.
They offer morning, day and evening appointments (typically 8am-8pm) throughout the week Monday-Friday, online via video call (Attend Anywhere or MS Teams) or telephone. Face-to-face appointments can be requested.
Wellbeing for New Parents workshop
Merton Uplift wellbeing team’s next Wellbeing for New Parents Workshop is on Tuesday 7 November. It is free and will be delivered via Microsoft Teams between 11am-12.30pm.
We would be grateful if you could signpost this to any clients you think may be interested. To attend, people can either sign-up via our Eventbrite here: Wellbeing for New Parents Tickets, Tue 7 Nov 2023 at 11:00 | Eventbrite or email the wellbeing team inbox mertonwellbeing@swlstg.nhs.uk
Early Years Nutrition Webinar
Early Years Nutrition Webinar - 3 November 2023, 10am-11am
Early years nutrition is a critical part of early childhood development and can impact everything from establishing healthy food habits and social behaviour, healthy weight, concentration, good oral health and general wellbeing. Early years settings can support infants and young children to be happier and healthier by nurturing a healthy and balanced diet to support their development in all of these areas.
Come and hear about Westminster’s whole systems approach to supporting 0–5-year-olds. Please share this invitation with colleagues who may be interested.
Merton Integrated Youth Service
We have the highest ambitions for our children, young people and their families. That’s why our youth services are multi-disciplinary with roots firmly within informal and non-formal education. Our Community Based Universal Youth offer is central to this and, as an integral part of the Family Hub model, helps to build resilient children and young people. Our open early intervention access approach engages, supports and nurtures children and young people so that they become school ready, work ready and life ready.
We have a common set of values and principles that underpin the engagement of children, young people and their families:
- Facilitating participation and the active involvement of children and young people
- Promoting equality, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging
- Partnership working with children, young people, families and the wider community
- Promoting personal, social and political development of children and young people
- Active listening of children and young people
- Voluntary relationship with children and young people so that they make the decision to accept or reject our offer.
Here are some of our various youth and play programme access points and examples of work that is delivered, facilitated and co-produced with children, young people, their families and the wider community:
We know we can’t do this alone, so we work with our social and health-based partners to provide outstanding services which promote and improve the life chances of all our users. As Merton's Family Hub youth offer, we’re part of a thriving network of children’s centres, youth settings, libraries and voluntary sector provision, where our aim is to better coordinate the Team around the Family to make sure that all children, young people and their families know how to access the information and help they need.
Health Visiting in Merton
Health Visitors are trained nurses or midwives who have undertaken additional training in community public health nursing. The Health Visiting service supports and educates families to help give each child the best possible start in life.
Health Visitors offer a range of health promotion, health protection and safeguarding interventions to protect and promote the health of families in the borough. They also have an in depth knowledge of the local community and what local service provision is available.
For more information please visit: https://clch.nhs.uk/services/health-visiting
Please find links below to free online overview sessions which introduce new staff to Family Hubs and the work of the National Centre for Family Hubs. These would be helpful for those who have limited prior knowledge and want to find out more about Family Hubs as a national initiative.
Please share widely across your staff teams and encourage colleagues to sign up. This is a great way to familiarise more with Family Hubs and the session is only 45 minutes!
26 October 2023 NCFH Induction Booking
23 November 2023 NCFH Induction Booking
The next CAMH Network event covers the theme ‘Eating Disorders in Children and Young People’.
Featuring the following speakers from the Trust:
- Dr Jenny Zinser (Clinical Psychologist) and Dr Eilis Carton (Counselling Psychologist)
- Child and Young Person Community Eating Disorders Service - South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust
Booking can be done via the registration link on Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive Microsoft teams login details directly to their email accounts prior to the date.
The UK Health Security Agency has information and promotional resources available to support the 2023 to 2024 annual flu vaccination programme. Posters and leaflets come in a wide range of languages and include information for parents and carers of children in primary school or pre-school and those in secondary school
Thank you Sanjana!
During the last 6 months Dr Sanjana Jio has worked tirelessly and delivered a fabulous piece of work around the Start for Life programme, focussing on the publication of the Merton Start for Life offer, the setting up of the Merton Family Voice panel for 0-2s and bringing together a vast number of early years partners from across a multi-disciplinary network.
On 9 November Sanjana will be leaving Merton, and we are all enormously grateful for her hard work, commitment, skills and expertise in this area of work. The work that has taken place over the last 6 months is really impressive and Sanjana has left a brilliant foundation for us to continue to develop our Start for Life and Family Hub transformation programme. Sanjana, we would like to wish you a heartfelt thank you for everything you have done since joining Merton: your professionalism, extensive knowledge, flexibility, motivation and enthusiasm have really shone through.
Our best wishes for all your future endeavours, please do keep in touch.
Merton Family Hub team.
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