About Us
At Changing Minds Child and Family Services (CMCAFS), we aim to support people, organisations and wider systems collaboratively and compassionately through creative psychological practice.
What Do We Provide?
We provide specialist psychological services for children, young people, families, and teams and organisations who support them. This involves supporting our partner organisations to provide a range of innovative services which strive to be truly psychologically informed, attachment and trauma-responsive, and meaningfully helpful.
We work with senior leaders and practitioners from various services across health, education and social care to incorporate systemic psychological thinking and attachment/trauma-responsive practice into their organisations.
As a service, we are keen to work closely with universities and research teams to evaluate what we do, pilot new services, and design new, innovative provisions based upon evidence- informed practice.
We also recognise the importance of strengthening connection, reflection and looking after each other when working with young people, families and organisations who may be dealing with the impact of high levels of distress and trauma.
What is Our Vision?
Having a voice and be able to influence the wider systems impacting upon children, young people and their families.
Recognising the expertise that we bring, whilst acknowledging that we don’t know everything and working with others to reflect, develop and learn, with ongoing openness and development of our skills and expertise.
Supporting, valuing and developing our people – recruiting and retaining the ‘right’ people, with a focus upon ongoing development and learning. Connecting with, reflecting with and supporting each other: being a team that lives its values.
Reaching groups where traditional models of service delivery would not be accessible or meet their needs and being able to offer something different and meaningful to them.
Providing high quality, innovative, meaningful and sustainable work that leaves an impact on both people and overall systems.
Collaboratively working with partners to design services, create therapeutic, frameworks, and apply creative psychological thinking within their provisions.
Building a community (hub) of good psychologically-informed practice.
Having a voice and be able to influence the wider systems impacting upon children, young people and their families.
Recognising the expertise that we bring, whilst acknowledging that we don’t know everything and working with others to reflect, develop and learn, with ongoing openness and development of our skills and expertise.
Supporting, valuing and developing our people – recruiting and retaining the ‘right’ people, with a focus upon ongoing development and learning. Connecting with, reflecting with and supporting each other: being a team that lives its values.
Reaching groups where traditional models of service delivery would not be accessible or meet their needs and being able to offer something different and meaningful to them.
Providing high quality, innovative, meaningful and sustainable work that leaves an impact on both people and overall systems.
Collaboratively working with partners to design services, create therapeutic, frameworks, and apply creative psychological thinking within their provisions.
Building a community (hub) of good psychologically-informed practice.
Who Are We?
Our Spaces
Our offices, therapy and meeting/training rooms are based at 19 Wilson Patten, in central Warrington.
