About Services – North West – Manchester Eclypse

2004/05 has been an exciting time in which the service has been restructured and seen a number of developments aimed at responding appropriately to meet the needs of children and young people across the City of Manchester. ECLYPSE has a skilled and diverse staff of 20 working across two unique teams: the Early Intervention and Outreach Team and the Care Management Team.

ECLYPSE secured a contract with Manchester Drug and Alcohol Action Team to provide tier 2 provision across Manchester, which enabled the Early Intervention and Outreach Team to expand and refocus.

The Early Intervention and Outreach Team provides the following:

• Initial assessments most notably to the Youth Offending Teams, Manchester’s Residential Children’s Homes, Pupil Referral Unit’s and Connexions including other services to children who are either excluded from or are not in school.
• Rolling programmes of targeted prevention group work.
• Outreach work targeting children and young people who are being sexually exploited, involved in prostitution and those who have run away from home as well as asylum seekers.
• Targeted prevention to Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) children and young.
• Diversionary activities.

We have developed a range of successful diversionary activities involving close partnership working with agencies such as Positive Futures. The projects developed have included football, access to fitness centres, art exhibitions, photography and horse riding.

The Care Management Team provides the following:-

• Level 2 assessments.
• Coordinated multi agency care planning to meet identified need.
• Access to treatment either in the community or at the young people’s in patient detox unit. ECLYPSE will provide support prior, during and after treatment programmes.

We pride ourselves on being able to respond swiftly. Children and young people do not have to wait to receive a service from ECLYPSE.

We continue to develop partnerships with a wide range of services including Youth Offending Teams, Children, Families and Social Care, Pupil Referral Units, the Youth Service, BME support groups, CAMHS and the Youth Access Team an Secure Accommodation. We also continue to work with Manchester Drugs and Race Unit in order to keep the needs of BME groups a priority.

ECLYPSE has worked with other young people’s substance misuse services across Greater Manchester in developing an accredited training course on screening and assessment.
In 2004/05 ECLYPSE provided a range of services to 1,741 children and young people across tiers 2,3 and 4, and of these 28% were from BME groups.

Martin Moran