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Specialist outreach mental health services for vulnerable and hard to reach children in the UK and other developed or developing countries.

Mental Health Bus International Projects (MHB IP) offers specialist outreach mental health service development and/or provision for hard to reach children in deprived areas of the UK and other developed and developing countries. MHB IP constitutes the outreach division of CINAPS Ltd (Cambridge Independent Neuroscience and Psychiatry Services) and has as primary goal service development and provision for vulnerable and hard to reach children in high risk and clinically challenging settings. CINAPS Ltd was founded by Dr JN Rundle MBChB MRCPsych and Dr CR Venter MBChB MRCPsych, Consultants in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in February 2009. CINAPS provides private and pro bono consultation in the UK as well as services to the NHS and other national and international organisations. CINAPS funds pro bono work through private work and NHS consultations. Please visit www.cinaps.co.uk for more information on our services in the UK and abroad. Company Registration Number 6937186. MHB IP is entirely dependent on private and corporate funding, donations and sponsorship in order to not increase strain on limited resources within existing local community services. Our Directors, Dr CR Venter and Dr JN Rundle, are currently our main donors. Please see www.mentalhealthbus.co.uk for our contact details, for more information on our outreach work, on how you can support this project or to donate funds directly. Please contact us at [email protected] for more information. The content of our websites and social media accounts is intended for general information purposes only. These pages do not constitute any form of consultative or diagnostic tool or process, and is no substitute for assessment by a medical doctor. The assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental health or general health difficulties, particularly in children, is a complex and specialised process and should only be undertaken by qualified mental health or medical professionals with appropriate training and sufficient experience. If you are concerned about a child or individual, please seek appropriate advice, without delay, from your General Practitioner or Accident and Emergency Department.

06/11/2026

Link below re PTSD and trauma in general.

06/11/2026

Photo taken in Papeete, Tahiti, airport. Wonderful place - Tahiti's islands. Nothing like it in terms of vivid colours, introductions to new experiences such as black tip reef sharks being part of what is right next to your legs, and you step on them if not careful (they do bite and have taken feet off turtles for example if hungry or threatened), swimming with rays of 2 metres long, them refusing to leave you alone, so many fish you can't see the blues and greens of the ocean that is not describably. The tides, the colours, the mountains, animals, people, music - the Pacific islands are a special place.

This link is about trauma and PTSD, and because we have offered to work in the Pacific we chose this photo, however the Pacific can teach us all about protective factors. The way they interact with nature, not adversarial, but collaborative. Beautiful to behold. Thank you.

https://mentalhealthbus.wordpress.com/2026/11/06/trauma-physical-and-emotional/

30/10/2026

Pacific: Meetings and Music

30/10/2026

We learn about children, communities, need, risk, protective factors, culture, local services, various food types and how to prepare it, music, dance (everyone has their own kind of salsa it seems). Thank you all.
https://mentalhealthbus.wordpress.com/2026/10/30/feedback/

24/10/2026

Anything is possible - with the right balance, commitment and leadership - see previous principle mentioned on blog - it just takes understanding the various factors - risk and protective - in question, and off you go ..... one needs a 'roll with it' approach in life, and we learn this in the poorest places of all - like nowhere else - it keeps us going, laughing, dancing amidst the storms.

We are grateful every day, to learn from wonderful people such as this man below, with his baskets, along with every child, community, colleague and health ministry. We thank you all for the priviledge to be part of your world and that you work with us with 'Service' - Servamus - as the one agenda - patient first, best interest of the child first - first do no harm.

We have been blessed to be part of such a positive community in so many countries, and the medical community too - we learn every day.

24/10/2026

Ryan Reddington's puppy - Skagway, Alaska. A born leader - both of them. It is in the temperament, and commitment to learn, experience and lead - not for yourself, but for others.

See more below.

24/10/2026

Malamutes, huskies, Alaska, Skagway - what is not to love. Animals are wonderfully protective factors, especially dogs, but the nature in general - get out there - get a dog, but make sure you are the 'lead' and you will sacrifice for your animals no doubt, to make sure they are healthy, happy and safe to themselves and others. Dogs are happier when they know who is the lead - no uncertainties.

Caesar Milan's approach keeps dogs calm and happy, and often work for people too (some items, not the 'no touch, talk, eye contact at first contact, but other items such as calm, confidence etc).

True leaders are hard to find - they usually make you feel calm, comfortable and at peace - 'everything will be alright' - stick with them. Animals and children automatically follow them if you notice - so a good test to see if 'leader material'. Thank you everyone! Be back soon.

https://mentalhealthbus.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/protective-factors-animals/

22/10/2026

Kangaroo Care - so many benefits. Please see link below.
This photograph was taken in , Great Ocean Road, close to - one of our favourite routes to drive and wild and everywhere and of course - we also met - great warmth and they nearly climbed into our hats (rehabilitation project so advised by their carers). Incredible. Thank you Australia!

22/10/2026

Kangaroo Care, ventilation, screens - what is protective for children, adults and the elderly (and businesses).

https://mentalhealthbus.wordpress.com/2026/10/22/kangaroo-care-protective-factor/

20/10/2026

Our directors' CVs. See you in the Pacific!
The culture is wonderful; warm hearts, wild waters.

https://mentalhealthbus.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/pacific-culture/

Pacific Culture; warm hearts, wild waters In 2020 we spent a few months in the Pacific, and we thank the USA, Hawaii, in particular, for their extraordinary kindness and assistance. We offered inpu…

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