Young Minds Matter (YMM) is a safe and confidential mental health support service developed for children and young people up to 18 years of age in schools across Gloucestershire. We are a CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST). 

The service is growing and is currently working within 152 schools across the county.

The project started in December 2018 when Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group worked with Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire County Council to engage with young people across the county to set up the Young Minds Matter programme. The aim of the programme is to help provide young people with early support to help them with mild to moderate mental health issues such as exam stress, anxiety or low mood.

The team can offer you support if you are struggling with things like anxiety, low mood or similar concerns. This can be either face-to-face in school or via a virtual online platform. To meet with someone from Young Minds Matter you can ask a teacher/member of staff in your school to make a referral for you.

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We have a friendly team of YMM professionals who are available to chat on text message during the school day (between 9am until 4:30pm) Monday to Friday (except bank holidays). The team will aim to respond either the same day or the next working day.

Young people can contact us by text if they want to share something that is worrying them, to get some advice or to self-refer and get an appointment, without needing to ask a parent or a teacher if they would like to chat with one of the 1:1 practitioners to talk things through.

Telephone: 07480 635723

(Monday to Friday 9am – 4:30pm)

Young Minds Matter offer a safe, confidential space to work on the difficulties you are experiencing in a structured and focused way, we use something called Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which helps us to think about how your thoughts (cognitions) impact on your actions (behaviours) and your feelings (emotions). You can speak to someone at school and ask to be referred or us our text service YMM Chat, to confidentially talk to one of our team and the options that are available for you.