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Lumi Nova in Gloucestershire
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NHS Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning Team are pleased to announce that children in Gloucestershire are now able to get FREE access to Lumi Nova, an exciting therapeutic support offer targeted at children aged 7 - 12 years experiencing difficulties with anxiety.
Schools, GPs and other professionals can now refer families by signposting them to http://luminova.app/glos or parents can self-refer for instant access to therapeutic support.
Lumi Nova is a breakthrough digital therapeutic game for childhood anxiety, co-designed with children, parents, NHS clinicians, and experts in mental health, human-centred design and ethical gaming technology. It empowers young minds to overcome mental health challenges and create life-long skills using highly immersive experiences that are self-guided, interactive, and fun.
In today’s rapidly changing world, children and young people face greater pressures earlier and feel more stress and anxiety than ever before. Many young people experience anxiety at a level that interferes with their daily functioning. 50% of all mental disorders start by the age of 14. Left untreated mental health issues can escalate and become harder and more costly to treat.
Lumi Nova: Tales of Courage is an engaging child-led, parent/guardian supported therapeutic intervention that can be used on most smartphones or tablets. It facilitates graded exposures (the active ingredient of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) with psychoeducation to empower 7-12 year olds with mild to moderate needs to learn to self-manage fears, worries and anxiety in a non-stigmatising way. The app:
- Is recommended by NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) for use across healthcare to support children with anxiety
- Is development funded by NHS England
- Is clinically safe and secure
- (CE marked, Class 1 (low risk) medical device, registered with the MHRA)
- Is co-developed with children, families, educators, clinicians and academics
- Can be used by children with mild to moderate needs across various parts of the UK, where they may not meet thresholds for CAMHS, are on the waiting list, or alongside other therapeutic support.
- Case studies of families who have used Lumi Nova: https://www.bfb-labs.com/case-studies
Lumi Nova is designed to help children and young people with mild to moderate levels of anxiety. If your child struggles with worry, they may seem to fear the worst in specific situations, they may lack the confidence to cope with new challenges in those situations, and they may even often complain of tummy aches, muscle aches, or headaches in response to a specific worry.
Lumi Nova is not suitable to help children or young people with complex needs or whose generalised worry prevents them from participating in most day-to-day activities. It is not designed to help young people in crisis.
Self sign up: Families can sign up themselves by visiting http://luminova.app/glos where they will find information about the service and the registration form
Information for Professionals: Professional Information: Any professional who may wish to signpost to Lumi Nova can learn more by attending a Gloucestershire Lumi Nova Discovery Session
Information for Parents: Parents wishing to have more information can attend a Parent Lumi Nova Discovery Session
If you would like any further information on Lumi Nova as a Gloucestershire resident, please contact mel.turner@gloucestershire.gov.uk. If you require technical support with Lumi Nova please contact luminova@bfb-labs.com