Health including emotional health and wellbeing
Website: School health nursing
Website: Text service supporting young people
Chat Health, a free and confidential text service which puts 11–19-year-olds in touch with their local school health nurses
Website: Social Prescribers from Onside
Support individuals to take control of their health and look after themselves by making connections with different types of community support.
Groups and activities for young people
Mental health and emotional wellbeing
The Child Mind Institute’s Family Resource Centre offers hundreds of articles to help families support children who are struggling with mental health, behaviour or learning challenges. Now we’re excited to announce that this same essential information is coming to YouTube, delivered by our expert clinicians straight to your TV, laptop or mobile device.
You can find the first videos on the channel now and we’ll be posting new videos weekly on topics from behaviour and anxiety to screen time and parenting challenges. Visit our Child Mind Institute YouTube
If you happen to miss viewing any of the videos on YouTube, you can find them (and all future videos) on the Child Mind Institute Video Resources
Guidance: Children’s and young people’s wellbeing
Childhood has a profound effect on our adult lives. Many mental health conditions in adulthood show their first signs in childhood and, if left untreated, can develop into conditions which need regular care.
Website: Kooth ‘your online mental wellbeing community
Kooth is staffed by fully trained and qualified counsellors and is available until 10pm each night, 365 day per year. It is free, safe and provides a non-stigmatising way for young people to receive counselling, advice and support online.
Website: Reach 4 Wellbeing
The Reach 4 Wellbeing team aims to promote positive wellbeing, reaching children and young people in their communities to reduce the stigma of mental health. They provide short-term group programmes for children and young people aged 5-18 experiencing mild to moderate anxiety and low mood, using cognitive behaviour therapy-based principles. Reach 4 Wellbeing is a self-referral service.
Website: Healthy Minds
Free confidential support, including online therapy, groups, and courses, 1.1 support and resources appropriate your individual needs.
Website: CAMHS CAST
Consultation, Advice, Supervision and Training for professionals working directly with children and young people experiencing or at risk of mental health difficulties.
Website: PAPYRUS
Suicide prevention support, offering free and confidential helplines, advice, webchats, and resources
Website: Welcome to Simply Limitless (simply-limitless.org)
Simply Limitless provides Mental Wellbeing services for all in the Wyre Forest area (Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn, Bewdley plus several civil parishes and their districts). They help people to improve their mental health and support those who are the most vulnerable in the community.
Bullying
Sexual health
Website: Worcestershire Integrated Sexual Health Service (WISH)
WISH provides free and confidential advice, information and support around relationships and sexual health. This is a confidential, non - judgemental service. WISH provides contraception including LARC and free condoms. WISH provide testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
Bereavement
Guidance: Bereavement support
The death of a loved one or close friend is one of the most difficult times in each of our lives. Whether this is expected, following a long-term illness, or sudden and unexpected, the grieving process is deeply personal.
Website: Winston’s Wish
Bereavement support for children and young people following the death of a sibling, parent or a person important to a child.