information for professIOnals
Centre 33 works closely with professionals supporting young people. Learn about the support we offer and how you can seek support for a young person.
professionals supporting young people
If you are concerned as a professional about a young person at your school, GP practice or in your community, then you can encourage them to get in touch with us directly. Young people are able to refer themselves for all our services or just drop in for a chat and some support.
Professionals can refer young people to our young carers project or counselling via YOUnited. See below for more detail.
young carers support
Centre 33 is the commissioned young carers assessment and support service for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. All young carers referred into us are offered a statutory young carers needs assessment. We devise an action plan with the young person which aims to reduce the impact of their caring role. Support is then offered based on individual need and can include 1:1, group or online support.
Before making a referral, we encourage professionals to look at the support needs of the whole family, it may be appropriate to make an Early Help referral if their needs cannot be met within universal services.
Please signpost young carers and their families to universal support:
• Download the Young Carers Support App on iOS or Android.
• Ask the GP to code the young person as a young carer on their system.
• Connect them to their school or college Young Carers Champion.
• Use our signposting guide, which contains lots of resources and organisations ready to help.
Make a referral for a young carer or young adult carer here.
young carers support: training for professionals
Identifying and supporting young carers is everyone’s responsibility. We are here to help.
We provide knowledge, expertise, training and resources to enable professionals to identify and support young carers across services and settings. As well as the above options, did you know:
• If young carers are 13 or older they can come to Centre 33 drop-in sessions.
• Young carers and young adult carers have legal rights.
Join our free training sessions - click here to see what is coming up.
For access to the resources hub, which includes useful information and materials for professionals supporting young carers, please email youngcarerstraining@centre33.org.uk
For more information, call us on 0333 4141 809 or email youngcarers@centre33.org.uk.
mental health support
We support young people with their mental health and emotional wellbeing by providing counselling and guided-self-help as well as signposting young people to resources and services that can help them. This offer is available for young people aged 13-25 living in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area.
We offer an in-house counselling service in some schools. You can email us on schools@centre33.org.uk or call us on 0333 4141809 to find out more.
Any young person in a crisis should seek support via First Response – 111 and select the mental health option.
How to get help
Young people have two ways of accessing this support.
• They can self-refer by contacting our helpline or our drop-in. Find our contact details, including hub locations, here. We encourage young people to contact us at a time and in a way that works for them.
• We are part of the YOUnited partnership. This is a group of four organisations supporting children and young people with their emotional wellbeing and mental health locally.
Find out more about YOUnited here, and see more about how referrals work below.
mental health support: YOUNITED REFERRALS
Understand how the YouUnited referrals system works for young people of all ages.
YOUnited offers a single referral hub for ALL young people aged up to 17 with the support of a professional. If the young person would like your help in getting support for their mental health then with their consent you can refer them via YOUnited.
Young people aged 18 to 25 can self-refer to Centre 33 or self-refer to Mind. GPs can also make referrals for mental health assessments to CPFT’s Primary Care Mental Health Service.
Self-referral: After a young person contacts us we will invite them to come to one of our drop-ins, or arrange for a worker to spend time talking them through their options on the phone. They will then go on a list to be allocated counselling or guided self-help.
YOUnited: After you have made the referral for the young person, they will be contacted for an assessment (usually on the phone). As a result of this assessment the young person will be referred to the service best suited to their needs (either Centre 33 or other partners).
Still have questions?
If you have questions about our work with young people or professionals, please email us.