Murray Hall Community Trust
Murray Hall Community Trust (MHCT) is a long-established grassroots charity. For over 25 years, it has provided tailored services, including BACP-approved counselling, wellbeing support, mentoring, and creative therapies. These services support disadvantaged and socially excluded children, young people, and adults of all backgrounds, abilities, and characteristics, including those in the NEET category.

Our work in suicide prevention
CTS is currently funded to support local CYP between the ages of 7-18yrs of age and their families.
CTS is unique it that it supports CYP with a wide range of self-harming behaviours.
CTS is currently participating on the NHS Suicide Prevention board

Our current priorities
The Breaking Silence project provides personalised Counselling & Creative Therapeutic Support to children, young people aged 7 – 18 years of age and their families affected by self-harm in Sandwell and aims to promote recovery and encourage safe alternative methods for coping. Breaking Silence is primarily a self-referral service, although we take referrals from other organisations and agencies where the young person has given their consent to be referred. The project offers self-harm awareness workshops for parents, carers and professionals. These workshops help to improve parents/carers/professionals understanding and knowledge of self-harm and provides them with positive ways to help support their children and young people.
Creative Empowerment Workshops are designed to enable individuals to reflect upon and manage their emotions and feelings. The sessions support to build relationships, improve communication, boost confidence and self-esteem whilst developing the ability to implement coping strategies and balance feelings and behaviours. Focus is on the CYP’s coping strategies which encompass a wide variety of strategies which can be tailored to each CYP’s unique requirements. Overarching within each session there is the opportunity to engage in Mindfulness techniques which reinforce the CYP’s ability to sustain any future coping strategies. Paying attention to the present moment enables CYP to improve their overall mental health. The sessions include a variety of different arts, music and performance, all designed as ways in which to help individuals to reflect upon and manage their emotions, feelings, while developing effective coping strategies.

Our current challenges
Counselling & Creative Therapeutic Support is advertising its support project to local commission groups and at multi agency meetings to showcase that our support is going during the pandemic.
