Health and Wellbeing
Below is a list of websites and resources that may be useful if you need support with your families health and wellbeing:
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families is a children’s mental health charity with over 60 years’ experience of caring for young people and their families. Our aim is to transform current mental health provision in the UK by improving the quality, accessibility and effectiveness of treatment. We bring together leaders in neuroscience, mental health, social care and education to work together to improve understanding and practice. Our goal is to develop, disseminate and deliver the best possible evidence-based treatment, through scientific innovation, research and collaboration and underpinned by the direct experience and insight of children and their families
Beat Eating Disorders
Beat is the UK’s eating disorder charity. Founded in 1989 as the Eating Disorders Association, our mission is to end the pain and suffering caused by eating disorders. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that ruin and, too often, take lives.
www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
CALM: Campaign Against Living Miserably
The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against suicide. They run a free and confidential helpline and webchat 7 days a week, offering help, advice and information to anyone who is struggling or in crisis.
ChatHealth
Need to talk? Whatever’s on your mind, we can help. Even if you just need someone who understands or want advice for a friend.
The teams we work with help lots of people like teenagers in schools, parents of young children and mums with new born babies.
Childline
Childline is here to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through.
You can talk about anything. Whether it’s something big or small, our trained counsellors are here to support you.
Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice is an independent organisation specialising in confidential information and advice to assist people with legal, debt, consumer, housing and other problems in the United Kingdom
Kooth
Kooth.com is commissioned by the NHS, Local Authorities, charities and businesses to provide anonymous and personalised mental health support for Children and Young People. With over 4000 logins per day, we provide end to end support whatever the need.
Mind
We provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. We campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
The Mix
The Mix is here to take on the embarrassing problems, weird questions, and please-don’t-make-me-say-it-out-loud thoughts that people under 25 have in order to give them the best support through our digital and phone services.
MOSAIC Drug and Alcohol Services
Mosaic provides support for Young People under 26 who are experiencing issues with drug or alcohol use. We also provide help for families affected by substance misuse and for young people who are affected by the drug or alcohol use of a parent or caregiver.
Mosaic work with anyone who is under the age of 26 and who lives in the Stockport area. We will also work with young people who are out of the area and LAC. Mosaic have extensive experience of working with young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
MYH: Muslim Youth Helpline
A faith and culturally sensitive helpline service putting young people at the frontline of service delivery.
NHS
We’re focused on meeting the health and care needs of people across England via advice, guidance and signposting.
PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide
Suicide is the biggest killer of young people – male and female – under 35 in the UK. Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling. We exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives by shattering the stigma around suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to suicidal behaviour.
Samaritans
We’re here, day or night, for anyone who’s struggling to cope, who needs someone to listen without judgement or pressure. Samaritans is not only for the moment of crisis, we’re taking action to prevent the crisis. We give people ways to cope and the skills to be there for others. And we encourage, promote and celebrate those moments of connection between people that can save lives. We offer listening and support to people and communities in times of need.
SHOUT 85258
Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope. We launched publicly in May 2019 and we’ve had more than 500,000 conversations with people who are anxious, stressed, depressed, suicidal or overwhelmed and who need immediate support.
STEM 4
stem4 is a charity that promotes positive mental health in teenagers and those who support them including their families and carers, education professionals, as well as school nurses and GPs through the provision of mental health education, resilience strategies and early intervention.
This is primarily provided digitally through our innovative education programme, pioneering mental health apps, clinically-informed website and mental health conferences that contribute to helping young people and those around them flourish.
YoungMinds
Every young person whose mental health ends up in crisis is a young person who has been failed. We know that the earlier young people can access the right help, the more likely it is that they can avoid these crises. Whether they need a reassuring conversation, specialist mental health support, or simply the knowledge that they are not alone in how they are feeling, we will make sure that all young people get support that meets them where they’re at as quickly as possible.
Arc
Arts for Recovery in the Community, or simply ‘Arc’, is the leading arts and mental health charity based in Stockport that provides opportunities for people to celebrate their creativity, connect with each other and learn new skills.
Arc has more than 25 years’ experience of producing transformational arts projects which engage and include marginalised groups, promote wellbeing and recovery from mental ill-health, and reach thousands of people across the North West and beyond.
Nacoa
Nacoa (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics) is a registered charity (No. 1009143), founded in 1990 to address the needs of children affected by a parent’s drinking or similar addictive problem. This includes children of all ages, many of whose problems only become apparent in adulthood.
Change Grow Live
Change Grow Live are an organisation who offer guidance and support children and families who are impacted by substance use and abuse
https://www.changegrowlive.org/advice-info/under-18-advice/impacted-family-substance-use
Alateen
Alateen meetings are for 12-17 year olds inclusive. We believe alcoholism is a family disease that affects everyone in the family. By attending online or in-person meetings, young people gain an understanding of the illness and feel the benefits of realising they are not alone. They learn that they did not cause this problem and that they are not responsible for their relative’s or friend’s drinking or behaviour. Young people share their experiences of having, or having had, a problem drinker in their lives. They help and support each other.
