The Birmingham Pause team are now offering regular drop-in Pause support for under 25s in community based locations.
Find out more about PAUSEWhat do Pause do?
Pause is an open access, youth led, brief intervention, emotional health and wellbeing service for:
- Children & young people under 25 years old who have a Birmingham GP,
- Parents/carers of children & young people under 25 years old who have a Birmingham GP.
What does that mean?
Open access = there is no threshold to meet to get support – if someone is under 25 and is registered with a Birmingham GP – they use Pause.
Youth led = means 2 things:
It is up to the child/young person to choose to engage.
We don’t accept referrals.
For anyone under 13 years old, a parent/carer needs to register with their child.
For those 14 and over, they can register without a parent/carer.
Parents/carers can also register for support helping their child/young person.
The child/young person can talk about whatever is their mind. Nothing is off limits!
If it is impacting their emotions and feelings, we are here to help.
Brief Intervention = we offer sessions that lasts 20-30 minutes. There is no commitment from the young person, they choose when and if they come back to us. We don’t case manage or offer ‘counselling’ – we encourage the young person to book in when they want to talk about something – it might be something new or to review the progress they have made following their last session.
Emotional Health and Wellbeing = Anything relating to feelings and how to manage them. E.g. arguments with friends or family, anxiety about lockdown lifting, loneliness, low mood, self-harm, relationships, transitions between stages in education like starting a new school/college/uni, how to cope with anger, bullying, gender, identity – all of this and more.
Our team is made up of experienced wellbeing practitioners & wellbeing volunteers who will take the time to listen and provide support strategies. We are young person led, so after each brief intervention they can choose when and if they come back to us, they request a session again when they need to.
We understand that some are excited to get back to ‘normal’ and access face to face support, whilst others are more comfortable over the phone and video calls. So we are offering the choice, you can drop-in for face to face support just check the website for this week’s dates, times and locations. Or if you would rather have a phone or video call please complete the request on the website, please note there is a wait for this support.
