Real Crafty Sporting Club
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Real Crafty Sporting Club members will be doing the Coniston Challenge in September. This is a triathlon with a twist .
What's involved:
10km trek up the Old Man of Coniston
17km bike ride through the Grizedale Forest
3km kayak across Coniston Water
We are doing the Challenge to raise awareness of Children's Mental Health .
Alder Hey Children’s Charity’s ‘7 in 10 Children’s Mental Health Appeal’.
The Appeal is aiming to raise vital funds to enhance inpatient and Community mental health services at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, enabling more children to access the treatment they need at the time they need it.
If anyone can spare a £1 or £2 to this worthwhile cause then Thanks in Advance
7 in 10 children and young people who experience a mental health condition have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age. Alder Hey Children’s Charity’s ‘7 in 10 Children’s Mental Health Appeal’ is aiming to raise vital funds to enhance inpatient and Community mental health services at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, enabling more children to access the treatment they need at the time they need it.
A new ‘Clinical Hub’ is being built which will include mental health outpatient facilities and a brand new twelve bed specialist inpatient mental health Unit, alongside other cross dependent community health services.
Located right next door to its state-of-the art specialist hospital and within a modern, child-friendly building, the enhanced provision of mental health services will increase current available inpatient bed capacity and enable more children and young people to be seen and treated quickly by experienced, specialist clinicians.
Patients and their families will be able to receive rapid and early access to co-ordinated multi-disciplinary care, benefitting from the most up to date assessment and diagnosis facilities. The Hub will also enable Alder Hey’s community services to link more closely with its specialist hospital services, enhancing care for children with long term conditions such as neurology, cardiology and infectious diseases.
It's good to talk.
Starting a conversation about our mental health can be difficult. That is why for our children and young people, it is so important that they can turn to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital as a trusted friend to listen, guide and support them.
Talking therapies can come in many different forms, all with the collective aim of supporting our children and young people to talk about things that matter to them. Mental health affects every child and young person differently and that’s why it’s so important that they and their families to seek out professional support at Alder Hey in appropriate facilities.
Many children and young people require regular one to one support, to work through any challenges they face with our mental health staff.
For other young people, group therapies and peer support can help young people to understand their diagnosis, give them confidence and reduce feelings of isolation, improving their mental wellbeing and recovery.
We also want to develop the way we use play and creativity as a way of opening channels of communication, providing a unique, child-centred and joined up approach throughout Alder Hey and our communities