GoTo Youth Service

GoTo is our mental health support service for young people aged 14-18 in South Lanarkshire, in collaboration with Regen:FX. 

GoTo is an early intervention, community wellness service carefully designed to address the issues that cause poor mental health in vulnerable young people. Our trauma-informed Youth Workers and CBT Counsellors, who are trained in a range of specialist areas, develop a therapeutic alliance with every young person, allowing them to explore sensitive personal issues within the safety of a professional, welcoming, non-clinical and youth-focused environment.  

The aim of GoTo is to empower young people to focus on their strengths, helping them to improve their confidence and self-esteem, while also developing resilience and coping skills. Our blended approach provides the young person with choice of 3 levels of engagement:

Youth Work Interventions (Level 1)

• Volunteering
• Teambuilding
• Performing arts classes
• Active Citizenship
• Youth Leader & Peer Mentoring training courses

Psychosocial Interventions (Level 2)

• Stress management
• Mindfulness
• Psychosocial education
• Training (including coping skills and social skills)
• Harm reduction
• Relapse prevention
• Topic-specific group work

Level 3: Counselling and Psychological Therapies (Level 3)

• One-to-one counselling
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• CBT groupwork programmes (e.g., anxiety / stress / depression / emotional regulation)
• Psychological therapies  

The three levels of our GoTo service offer a menu of options for the young person to improve their physical, mental, and emotional health. Level 3 therapies can complement any elements from Level 1 or 2, allowing the young person to engage in all three at once if they wish.  

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