Children & Young People’s Service
For children & young people affected by cancer.
Our Children & Young People’s Service offers specialist support to young people from the ages of 4 to 18 years, whose lives have been affected by cancer. This includes those who have had cancer themselves, as well as those who have been affected by the illness within the family. The service also works with young people who are bereaved. Our primary catchment area is children and families living in South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire.
Our Therapists are qualified in Counselling, Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Non Directive Play Therapy and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. Our Therapists have knowledge of child development, attachment theory and developmental trauma to inform their approach to supporting families at Cavendish Cancer Care. As well as offering one-to-one sessions to young people, our Therapists offer advice and support to parents and carers.
We offer short term support of up to ten sessions in total, including an initial parent consultation and towards the end, a review meeting. Sometimes, when appropriate, we can work with a child and their parent or carer together in therapy.
If you are looking for support please leave your details on the form below (scroll down for form) or if you are unable to do this please call
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Please note Cavendish is not an urgent care or crisis support service.
If you are in need of urgent or specialist mental health support/advice please see information below :
- Contact your GP
- Call: NHS 111 and select the Mental health Option (callers will be transferred to a dedicated mental health call handler who can signpost, manage queries and escalate to urgent and crisis service if needed).
- Call: Childline 0800 1111
- Text the word ‘Shout’ to 85258
- If you are in an emergency and there is risk to life Call 999
We will store and use your data in line with standard GDPR regulations to ensure we provide an effective service and for evaluation and funding purposes. Further information can be viewed in our privacy policy If there are any risks to you or your children identified we will aim to address these in line with our Safeguarding Adults Policy and Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy
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