Children and Young People’s Services

Carlisle Eden Mind offers a range of services for children and young people across Cumbria. We work to educate, support and encourage the children and young people of Cumbria to understand mental health.

Carlisle Eden Mind has been delivering mental health services across our area for over 25 years. Over that time, we have seen the demand for children and young people’s services increase.

One in eight (12.8%) children and young people aged between five and 19 have a diagnosable mental health condition.

Need Help Now?

At Carlisle Eden Mind we work directly with children and young people on a one to one basis through our Your Voice advocacy service. We also offer a wide range of training for children, young people and adults who are caring for, supporting or working with children and young people.

Carlisle Eden Mind aspires to promote resilience and wellbeing through all areas of its work. It’s a pleasure to be able to work alongside many schools and organisations across Cumbria. By working with others we are able to offer young people support for their mental health and wellbeing, because we are always stronger in partnership.

Children and Young People's services

Advocacy

Your Voice is our advocacy service for children and young people. To read more about Your Voice and what we do visit our Your Voice Children and Young People’s advocacy page

Your Voice – Children and Young People's advocacy

Training

We offer various training courses designed specifically for children and young people but also for those who work with and support them, including parents, carers and professionals.

Our Children and Young People’s training page outlines all the options available and how we can tailor our training to meet the needs of your school, organisation or business.

Children and Young People's training

Resources

Children and young people have different needs to adults. Our resource list has been designed to provide information specifically relating to support for children and young people.

Children and Young People’s resources

Recent projects

Our children and young people’s team often take on short term projects when pockets of funding become available. The most recent was the Share a Smile project.

Share a Smile – promoting kindness, wellbeing and combating stigma

Get Involved

Meet our children and young people's team

I’m Lynsey and I am our Children and Young People’s Services Manager. I have been working for Carlisle Eden Mind for 10 years. I live outside of Carlisle with my family and our cat Bea.

Initially, I worked with adults but in 2012 we developed our Children and Young People’s advocacy service funded by Children in Need. I’d found my passion, working alongside young people in my role is an absolute privilege. Young people teach me so much every day and it’s a real honour to spend time with them, even when things are really tough.

Mental health to me is our everyday stuff. My aim is always to help young people have ownership of their emotions and their mental health. That is not about having to deal with stuff on your own but about knowing what to do, what helps and when.

Here at Carlisle Eden Mind, all the young people’s services and training that we develop and offer is driven firstly and most importantly by the young people we work with. I love developing, creating, and working with young people to identify what they think would help. We can then turn that into a real service that young people and their support networks (parents, school staff, friends) can benefit from.

My advice to my younger self?

Worry less about everything and be kind to yourself.

My Self-care, how I look after me

I am someone who has had to learn to manage my anxieties. Despite my job and training, I am not very good at just relaxing and switching my brain off! For me, I find its best to do something active to relax. I have a different thing for different days, times, or wobbles, for example, baking, going to the gym or not very glamourous… but cleaning also helps!

I’m Becky and I started at Carlisle Eden Mind in December 2019 as a Youth Advocate and Trainer. I am also a Drama Teacher. I run a small business, teaching life skills through drama. This is for children and young people across Cumbria. I live just outside of Carlisle with my family, our dog Alfie, cat Rascal and 2 rabbits Simba and Nahla.

I have always had a keen interest in mental health and wellbeing, particularly in children and young people. I try to develop and include this in the drama work that I do, aiming to develop confidence, self-esteem, communication skills and creative expression above all else. My role at Carlisle Eden Mind is hugely rewarding. I love that I can bring aspects of my drama training to use in the training we deliver in schools, interacting with the children and young people, gauging their understanding of the subject and hearing things from their perspective.

My favourite part of the job is meeting the young people for advocacy, building trust and a relationship with them and helping them to problem solve what they are going through. I have found the role very varied, really interesting, challenging (in a good way) and massively rewarding.

My advice to my younger self?

You are enough, be comfortable with who you are and everything will be ok. Also, travel more!

My Self-care, how I look after me

I find it hard to stop and slow down but I know I always feel better after some yoga in the morning- a good stretch and some breathing sets me up for the day. A good belly laugh with friends if I’m feeling a bit down, watching a good box set or doing something creative when I want to switch off my brain for a while!

One in eight (12.8%) children and young people aged between five and 19 have a diagnosable mental health condition.

Children and Young People's services

Advocacy

Training

Resources

Recent projects

Meet our children and young people's team

My advice to my younger self?

My Self-care, how I look after me

My advice to my younger self?

My Self-care, how I look after me

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