We’ve pulled together some useful information to help if you are a parent or carer and are concerned about the emotional wellbeing of your child.
General
- Recovery College Online has lots of resources and information from our Trust
- Advice for supporting your child’s mental health from This May Help
- #GettingThrough – a collection of guides created by and for families in collaboration with the NHS, for when your child or young person has been admitted to a CAMHS inpatient unit
- Skills for life webinars for parents and carers from our CAMHS colleagues in North Derbyshire (for anyone to access)
- Healthier Together provides information for people living in the North East or North Cumbria
- Food facts from NHS Better Health Healthier Families
- The Royal College of Psychiatrists website includes information on young people’s mental health
- MindEd free educational resources to support your child’s mental health
- Advice and information from Rethink Mental Illness
- The Anna Freud website provides emotional and mental health resources
- Advice for parents, guardians and carers on how to support a child or young person if you’re concerned about their mental health blog by Professor Prathiba Chitsabesan, national clinical director for children and young people’s mental health, NHS England
- Nip in the Bud provides free educational resources for parents and carers
- Explore CAMHS Resources from an NHS professional
- The Reading Well for children scheme provides quality-assured information, stories and advice to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. Books have been chosen and recommended by leading health professionals and co-produced with children and families. The booklist is targeted at children in Key Stage 2 (aged 7 to 11).
- Find out about the dynamic support register, which aims to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions for people with a learning disability and autistic people
- YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people.
- The Mix provides everything that’s needed to know about mental health, from anxiety and depression to self-care and counselling.
- Samaritans provides a telephone, email or online chat service to support to anyone in emotional distress or struggling to cope
- PAPYRUS is the UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people
- Mind aims to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone
- Mermaids supports transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children/or young people, and their families
North Yorkshire
- The Go-To for Emotional wellbeing and mental health provides information for people living in North Yorkshire
- Supporting children and young people with sensory processing differences in North Yorkshire and York
Durham and Tees Valley
- The Thrive after Tackling Trauma (TATT) service delivered by Darlington Mind offers trauma-informed counselling to children who have been affected by traumatic bereavement, including loss to suicide
