Emotional Health Support Services.

Descriptions

Lot 1 — Support for young people dealing with stress.The service will aim to deliver support to the young people with emotionalhealth needs related to stress and anxiety below the threshold for Tier TwoCAMHS services across Richmond and Kingston. For young people who meet the threshold for Tier Two support, they will beeligible for support from Achieving for Children's (AfC's) Emotional Health Service. At Tier 3, services willbe provided by South West London and St Georges, Child and AdolescentMental Health Services (CAMHs).AfC is seeking to provide a service for young people, and potentially theirfamilies, to ensure that low level mental health concerns, particularly thosewhich are stress related, are met by the service to prevent any escalation.The objective will be to provide young people, across both boroughs, withways of coping with stress to ensure a good level of emotional well-being. Afurther objective will be to ensure that the parents are engaged with thecounselling and are aware of their own behaviour, particularly in relation toexam stress.Lot 2 — young people dealing with bereavement or significant lossAchieving for Children is seeking a support service for children and youngpeople who live in Kingston or Richmond who are suffering from bereavementor significant loss. The objective is to support young people through araumatic and turbulent period of their lives and provide young people withways of coping with the loss they feel.Expressions of interest and electronic tender documents are available on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org), Project Id DN164737.AfC proposes to enter into one contract per Lot for an initial period of 2 years with the successful Tenderer (Service Provider) with two possible extensions of 1 year each.The service commencement date is 3.10.2016.The NUTS code for this service is UKI22.