Mental Health Resources
Mental Health Resources
National mental health charities and organisations
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Promotes the views and needs of people with mental health problems.
Phone: 0300 123 3393 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm)
Website: www.mind.org.uk
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Confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair.
Phone: 116 123 (free 24-hour helpline)
Website: www.samaritans.org.uk
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NSPCC have got advice to help support children who may be experiencing depression, anxiety, suicidal feelings or self-harm.
Phone: 0800 1111( under 18s hotline) 0808 800 5000 (for adults who are worried about a child)
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Mental Health Support and Resources for Young People
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Urgent Mental Health Support 24/7 Crisis Lines
Children, young people and their families can get free help, advice and urgent mental health support from 24/7 crisis telephone lines available in every London borough.
Information on child and adolescent mental health. Services for parents and professionals.
Phone: Parents' helpline 0808 802 5544 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm)
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk
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Essential support and advice for under 25s
Phone: 0808 808 4994 (7 days a week from 4pm - 11pm)
Website: https://www.themix.org.uk/
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Youth Access is the advice and counselling network. Working with our members, we promote the YIACS model as part of local services for young people everywhere. They have launched the Remote Support Toolkit, which is a live digital guide full of evidencebased practices for supporting young people's mental health and wellbeing remotely during the Covid19 outbreak.
Website: https://www.youthaccess.org.uk/
Mental Health Resources
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Good Thinking is designed for anyone living or working in London, It’s free and can support individuals in managing their own mental health and building resilience
Website: https://www.good-thinking.uk/
Black Thrive is a partnership between communities, statutory organisations, voluntary and private sector.
Website: https://www.blackthrive.org.uk/
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They created a fund that will go towards covering the cost of any services that you might feel you could benefit from. This is especially important following recent events.
Website: https://www.blackmindsmatteruk.com/