The skylights, brightly painted corridors and large windows overlooking a central courtyard make East London's Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health a far cry from how mental health care for young people was once provided in the area.
Previously, services were based at a young people's ward within the ageing and ramshackle St Clement's Hospital at Mile End, a former asylum that housed mainly adult psychiatric patients. The Coborn Centre couldn't be more different; its walls are hung with impressive paintings that have been produced by patients during sessions with a local artist.
Age-appropriate environment
The state-of-the-art building, which opened in 2006, is operated by the East London NHS Foundation Trust. Because of its east London demographic, the centre cares for mainly Bangladeshi, African and Afro-Carribean young people who display a range of mental illnesses, from schizophrenia, depression and behavioural disorders, to psychosis and eating disorders.
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