Mental Health
Useful Information
How to raise kids who can overcome anxiety
Youth Anxiety Psychologist Anne Marie Albano tells us that anxiety is the most common psychiatric condition affecting today's youth. Thinking back to her own personal journey with fears, stressors, and phobias, she has built a career that analyzes the "why" behind childhood anxiety.
Understanding and Managing Anxiety in children - A workshop for Parents and Carers
Useful Websites
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Stop Breathe Think We give young people, aged 21 or younger, access to free 1-1 counselling sessions. No wait times and available nationally, Stop.Breathe.Think provides vital support to those who need it right now.
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Parenting 2000 Emotional and Practical support and guidance for children, young people and families
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Crisis Cafe, Southport Based in Southport, we offer drop-in sessions between the hours of 5-11pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to give adults aged 18+ a place of safety as an alternative to A&E. We offer one to one support and a social space with refreshments, to reduce distress and better manage crisis situations. We can also provide support via phone, Zoom or email.
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Life Rooms Southport We are a free NHS service who provide a safe and welcoming space to meet others, access opportunities and learn about community resources. The Life Rooms offers support for those wanting to take the next steps in their life. Our services are available to anyone.
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Stormbreak UK We aim to improve children’s mental health through movement, equipping them with sustainable, transferable skills and coping strategies to thrive during the complex demands of growth into adult life.
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Boing Boing Resilience Boingboing aims to model and promote resilience research and practice that challenges social inequalities, in pursuit of a loving, fun and fair world where individuals from all walks of life are valued and respected. We provide opportunities to learn about resilience and get involved with resilience research and practice. We do this through running free events such as our monthly Resilience Forum as well as free and paid for training courses, coaching and practice supervision.
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Change Grow Live If you’re concerned about your drinking or drug use but aren’t sure what steps to take, you can find lots of information and advice here.
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We Are With You Get free, confidential support with alcohol, drugs or mental health from one of our local services or online
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Barnardos Barnardos help hundreds of thousands of children, young people, parents and carers via their 800+ services across the UK.
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Star Centre The Star Centre provides a friendly and welcoming space in Thornton and Bootle, where young people up to the age of 18 can access information and advice on mental health issues, as well as group support and a variety of therapies. Services on offer include counselling, CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), psychoeducation, peer support, family therapy, training for parents and group activities addressing issues such as the transition from children’s to adults’ services.
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Young Minds A guide to the NHS's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for young people and parents.
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Fresh CAMHS Liverpool FRESH CAMHS is a service for children/young people (aged 0-18) and their families/carers who are struggling with how they are feeling, thinking or the way they are doing things. We especially help those whose difficulties are getting in the way of being able to manage everyday life and relationships. Once assessed, referrals are directed to the most suitable part of the service where there will be access to a highly-skilled multi-disciplinary team trained in a range of therapies and approaches.
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YPAS - Young Person’s Advisory Service YPAS is a Youth Information Advice and Counselling Service (YIAC) that provides free, easily accessible and age-appropriate support to young people with a wide range of issues. YIACS are driven by the needs of young people
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Qwell Qwell.io is a free, safe and anonymous online mental wellbeing community for adults. Our support includes an online magazine, community forums, and professional text based support and counselling through our online platform.
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Anxiety Resources - Pooky Knightsmith I’m very often asked to teach about anxiety and many of you have told me how helpful you find the practical suggestions I share – so I’ve done a round up of my favourite videos and other resources on the topic.
Useful Resources
Sesame Street: Name That Emotion with Murray!
Do you know a lot about emotions and feelings? Great, then you're ready to play "Name That Emotion." In this game, you must try to figure out what emotion our contestants are feeling. Is the chicken excited? Is the tiger happy? Is the octopus excited?
- Be a Star of your Emotions.pdf
- where-do-i-feel.pdf
- anxiety-thermometer.pdf
- feelings-activities.pdf
- a-letter-about-how-i-m-feeling.pdf
- resilience-game.pdf
- resilience-ladder.pdf
- superhero-me.pdf
- tmh-parent-leaflet-final-web-updated-by-ed-april-2020.pdf
- mindfulness-calendar-daily-5-minute-activities.pdf
- Mindfulness Activities.pdf
- Mindfulness Shape Breathing.pdf
- MHF-Scotland-Parents-Pack.pdf
- anxiety_poster.pdf
- Regulation cards for home.pdf
- 5 Finger Breathing Visual.png.pdf
- 5 Finger Breathing Instructions.png.pdf
- Helping a child experiencing anxiety.pdf
- How to help if your child is experiencing different emotions.pdf
- How to help if your child is experiencing anger
- How to help if your child is experiencing low mood
- How to help if your child is experiencing low self-esteem
- Supporting Anxiety with children.pdf
- How to help if your child is finding trouble sleeping
- parent-anxiety-advice-leaflet.pdf
- resilience-framework-child-version.pdf
- five-ways-to-wellbeing.pdf
