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Working with young people with mental health issues

Checklist: How accessible is your service?

Use this checklist to identify how you can improve your service for young people with mental health issues - see How to use the checklists.

You can either:

  • tick the boxes on screen, then print the page, or
  • print it out and use a pen!

 

Staff and volunteers

Staff and volunteers have an understanding of mental illness and mental health problems

Yes No

Staff and volunteers know about early warning signs of mental illness

Yes No

Staff and volunteers have effective skills in engaging young people

Yes No

Staff and volunteers speak openly about mental health topics

Yes No

Staff and volunteers promote positive messages about help seeking behaviour

Yes No

Staff and volunteers receive training in managing challenging behaviours

Yes No

Service delivery

Your service actively considers and develops its "youth friendliness"

Yes No

Your service is flexible to the needs of young people with mental health issues, eg. flexible appointment times

Yes No

Networks

Your service promotes the role of youth health and mental health services

Yes No

Your service has developed partnerships and referral pathways to mental health services

Yes No

Your service promotes services that can assist with mental health issues, eg. ReachOut

Yes No