About us

CHUMS Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People provides therapeutic support in a variety of ways. CHUMS has developed a unique service delivery model to ensure that children and young people are able to access a service that supports their individual needs. 

CHUMS offers individual support, group work, family support, family days, activity days and residential weekends. CHUMS ethos is to support the family as a whole wherever possible and some of our current services directly support adults. Our multi-disciplinary clinical team are all well qualified and experienced clinicians. Many of our staff are experienced in more than one area of the service. It is important to us that all our staff have a passion for making a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.

CHUMS Charity has had charitable status since 2006 and enables us to deliver 5 chriatably funded services: the Trauma Service, the Bedfordshire Suicide Bereavement Service, the Recreational Therapeutic football and music programmes the Babyloss Service and the Disability Friendship Scheme in Luton. 

Our mission is to improve the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people in Luton, Bedfordshire,  and beyond, enabling positive and fulfilling lives by:

• Increasing emotional resilience in children, young people, families and communities
• Offering therapeutic support to children, young people and families
• Actively engaging service users, families and other stakeholders to influence service delivery
• Raising awareness of mental health difficulties through training and campaigning, to reduce stigma and highlight the need for prevention and early intervention