Mind Zone

Know Your Mind is Mind in Bradford’s children and young people’s service. We can support young people aged 8-19 (or up to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities) in the Bradford Central area (living in, go to school in, or attend a GP surgery in postcodes BD1, BD2, BD3, BD5, BD7, BD8 or BD9) with their mental health and wellbeing issues. We provide group support as well as some 1:1 support, using a goal-based approach to tailor support to a young person’s specific needs. More information can be found on our website, mindinbradford.org.uk.

Eligibility

Make sure you can access this service by answering a few questions

If you are not eligible for this service, you can find alternative support at Healthy Minds (healthyminds.services), Youth in Mind (youth-in-mind.org) or Kooth (Kooth.com). If you are looking for crisis support, please contact First Response on 01274 221181 any time, any day or Safer Spaces at Towerhurst on 01274 585885 from 10am-2am weekdays and 2pm-2am weekends.

Personal Details

To complete your referral, we would like to take a few personal details, these will not be shared with anyone outside of Mind in Bradford and will not influence the service we offer you. We ask for your contact details to discuss support and next steps with you.

Public health research has identified that there are certain ‘groups’ who are not accessing mental health and wellbeing services and receiving the support they need. We would like to ensure we are prioritising young people who find themselves in one of the following categories when delivering our services.

Worries

To see how we can best help you we would like to know a little bit about what it is you are worried about and would like help with. You can choose to tick just one box, or you can choose to tick more, please be as honest as possible.

Next Steps

Thank you very much for completing our initial referral form. You are probably wondering what will happen now. One of our experienced community wellbeing workers would like to give you a call to ask you a few more questions and have a chat about how we can help you.

If you would like to have someone with you whilst we have this conversation or you would like to have someone else speak on your behalf, we are more than happy for you to do this. For us to be able to speak to someone else, we will need to ask your permission. We will ask to speak to you directly towards the end of the call to confirm some details too. 

Whilst our service is confidential, if you are comfortable to, we encourage you to tell your parent/guardian that you are looking to receive support from Know Your Mind and where possible discuss the reason why. If you would like us to do this for you, we can arrange that.

Finally, in submitting your information to us today you are confirming you are happy for us to store and process your information on our secure electronic system. We ask that you read our privacy notice for young people which will provide further information about how we handle your data and if you have any questions or concerns speak to a member of our team. Do you understand?

If you are a parent/guardian and have completed this form on behalf of a young person, please complete the details below

Monitoring Information

We use this information to help us improve fair access to our services for all, and to understand if there are any groups of people we could be better at supporting. The information is collected for monitoring purposes and will not affect your involvement with our services in any way. Summaries of demographic information may be shared with funders, but will not include personal details and cannot be linked back to an individual. Your data is handled in line with the Data Protection Act (2018).

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]

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