Websites

Description

Kooth – www.kooth.com/

Free and confidential online counselling for young people in BANES

Refuge – www.refuge.org.uk/links-and-useful-numbers

Domestic violence

You Think You Know – www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents
Child Exploitation and Online Protection – www.ceop.police.uk
NSPCC – www.nspcc.org

Online safety

BBC – www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/links

General advice

Bath and North East Somerset Safeguarding Children Board – www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/children-young-people-and-families/child-protection

Child protection

National Health Service – www.nhs.uk/Examstress
BBC – www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/helping_with_exams

Helping your son/daughter/young person cope with exam stress

Preventing Tragedies – www.preventtragedies.co.uk
Let’s Talk About It – www.ltai.info

Preventing radicalisation

Developing Health & Independence – http://www.dhi-online.org.uk/do/bath/project-28/

Drugs and alcohol services

Young Minds – www.youngminds.org.uk/

The voice for young people’s mental health & well-being

Mind – www.mind.org.uk

Mental Health Charity – A-Z of mental health particularly useful

Anxiety UK – www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Most anxiety-related issues covered in detail

Moodjuice – www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk/anxiety.asp

Excellent CBT-style approach to anxiety. Note: Website also offers info on depression, suicide, psychosis and many other conditions

No Panic – www.nopanic.org.uk

General info on anxiety and details of youth helpline

Time to Change – www.time-to-change.org.uk

General resources and personal stories about MH

Stem4 – www.stem4.org.uk

Most MH conditions aimed at young people and teachers

Mental Health Foundation Resources- www.mentalhealth.org.uk/projects/right-here/resources

Very good resources geared towards YPMH

Mental Health Foundation Booklets – www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications

Booklets on many MH conditions

Papyrus – www.papyrus-uk.org

Young people and suicide

Students against depression – www.studentsagainstdepression.org

Issues around depression

Mental Health Foundation A-Z – www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z

A-Z of key MH issues & conditions

Moodjuice – www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk/Depression.asp

CBT-style approach to depression. Clearly explained

NHS – www.ntw.nhs.uk/pic/selfhelp/

Many, well-written NHS self-help booklets

NHS – www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/harmless/talk/

Information on self harming

Coping with exams – downloadable document

Tips for parents and carers ahead of exam season

School-gate scams – newsroom.barclays.com/r/3516/school-gate_scams__barclays_declares_fightback

Advice to protect young people from becoming victims of financial scams.