About the service
Our open access With Youth service provides online support to children and young people experiencing mental ill health and/or emotional distress.
This is a countywide service available for any Hertfordshire resident aged 5-19, as well as parents, carers and professionals.
The service helps children and young people to build resilience by working with them to problem solve and develop coping strategies, coming up with solutions that will enable them to improve their own health and wellbeing. We will also provide advice and guidance to parents/families/carers and professionals to ensure a holistic response to supporting the individual and creating a network around them to empower and enable positive change.
In line with the Thrive model, this service targets children and young people who meet the needs of ‘getting advice’ and ‘getting help’, through person-centred, evidence-based digital interventions and support, utilising CBT principles and promoting the development of positive coping strategies. Working with the individual, we will take steps together to work through a tailored support plan.
Support may include:
All of these elements will use CBT and solution-focused principles on a range of platforms to make the service as accessible and helpful as possible, in a way that works best for each young person. The service is a safe, trusted space, which works alongside each person, empowering choice and decision making.
No formal referral is needed. Reach out to us today through our instant messaging service or email us at withyouth@hertfordshiremind.org with your preferred contact details.
Working in partnership with BfB
BfB Labs
BfB Labs is an impact-led enterprise on a mission to ensure children and young people are able to access the support and build the skills and resilience they need to improve and sustain good mental health.
We provide age-appropriate, evidence-based, digital therapeutic interventions that offer effective mental health support early on, to children and young people in a way that is fun and non-stigmatising.
At the heart of BfB Labs is a person-centred approach, co-creating with children, parents/carers, school staff and clinicians – which led us to fuse proven therapies with immersing and responsible gaming.
We place therapeutic best practice into children and young people’s hands in a way that is safe, effective, engaging and accessible anytime anywhere.
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is BfB Labs’ award-winning offer, regulated by the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-based) therapeutic mobile game designed for 7-12 year olds that facilitates exposure therapy for children, and empowers learning to tackle anxieties and build resilience.
To find out more please see our Lumi Nova page.