YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to supporting the mental health of children and young people. Their mission is to ensure that all young people get the mental health support they need, when they need it, no matter what. They offer resources and advice for young people, parents, and professionals, aiming to create a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health.
YoungMinds also advocates for systemic changes to address the youth mental health crisis and provides tools to help young people manage their mental health. They emphasize kindness, optimism, and the importance of speaking up for what’s right.
CAMHS aims to make sure than no one goes without the support they need. In Oxfordshire they provide a wide range of mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and community services.
CAMHS offers two pathways for providing mental health services for children and adolescents.
The CAMHS – Getting Help pathway provides an early intervention which is time limited. This is the first level of help they offer for children and young people with emotional or mental health difficulties. You would normally work with one main mental health worker who will often have a background in nursing, social work, or occupational therapy. CAMHS – Getting Help offers children and young people opportunities to learn new skills to support them in managing emotional or mental health difficulties and also supports parents and carers.
The CAMHS – Getting More Help pathway works with children and young people who may need help over a longer period of time and/or who need more professionals to be involved. This could be because of something significant which has happened in their life, or just because more help is needed. It is different for everyone, and they try to treat everyone as an individual. They also support parents and carers too.
CAMHS – Getting More Help will treat children or young people in an emergency if they need help for a serious mental illness, like if they are feeling very low and have been thinking about harming themselves.
They offer evidence-based treatment, which means that the treatment has been tested to make sure that it works. You might be seen individually, with a family member or in a group with other young people who have similar difficulties: they will ask you what you prefer.
Winston’s Wish provides free digital bereavement information and support for children and young people across the UK who are grieving the death of someone important to them.
They’re the UK’s first childhood bereavement charity and have been leading the way in young people’s grief support since 1992. To this day they reach over 80,000 bereaved children and young people across the UK every year.
Their services are open to any bereaved young person up to the age of 25, regardless of who they are grieving or when they became bereaved. They also provide advice for adults supporting bereaved children and young people including parents, family members, friends, teachers, and other professionals.
The NSPCC believe every child is worth fighting for and work to prevent abuse, help rebuild children’s lives and support families. Their helpline is staffed by trained professionals who can provide expert advice and support. They support people with concerns about a child, parents or carers looking for advice, and professionals in need of information and guidance.
The Mix is the UK’s leading digital charity for under 25s, reaching over 6 million young people each year. Whatever issue a young person is facing, The Mix is always there for them – via their website, text, or social media. Their support is free, confidential and anonymous and can be accessed wherever young people are.
They connect young people to experts and their peers to talk about everything from money to mental health, homelessness to jobs, break-ups to drugs and more. No topic is out of bounds, and are completely non-judgemental.
The Mix’s mission is to empower every young person to make an informed choice about their wellbeing; whether that’s through peer-led and moderated community, one-to-one webchat, counselling service, crisis support messenger or their range of support content.
They aim to put young people at the centre of everything they do; they use our service data and collaborate with under 25s to inform every aspect of their services and their wider work. They use youth voice work to share a platform with young people and put their views and experiences at the centre of the conversation.
Family Lives is a charity providing professional non-judgemental support and advice to parents about all aspects of family life, including child development, issues with schools and parenting/relationship support. Family Lives recognise that the best way to support families is to provide professional
People contact them about all aspects of family life that include all stages of a child’s development, issues with schools and parenting/relationship support. They also respond when life becomes more complicated and provide support around family breakdown, aggression in the home, bullying, teenage risky behaviour and mental health concerns of both parents and their children.
Coram Voice provides advocacy to young people who are living in care or have recently left care, through a helpline and network of community advocates. The helpline has access to interpreters for those young people who speak little or no English.
Coram Voice is a leading children’s rights organisation. They champion the rights of children. They get young voices heard in decisions that matter to them and work to improve the lives of children in care, care leavers and others who depend upon the help of the state.
Childline helps anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they are going through. Whether it is something big or small, their trained counsellors are available to talk about anything.
Childline is a safe place to talk. Calls are not recorded and their number will not show up on any phone bills. Counsellors write some notes about what is discussed. They also keep notes for 1-2-1 counsellor chats and emails and save copies of what has been said in a chat or email. These notes stay safe at Childline. They keep notes to help understand what one is going through and support them if they contact Childline again. It can also make it easier for them to get help if they are in danger.
The Childhood Bereavement Network is the hub for those working with bereaved children, young people and their families across the UK. They underpin their members’ work with essential support and representation: bringing them together across localities, disciplines and sectors to improve bereavement care for children. They believe that all children have the right to information, guidance and support to enable them to manage the impact of death on their lives.
Provides women who have been diagnosed with, or think they have, post natal illness, with information packs, a helpline, email support and a mentoring scheme. The Association for Post-Natal Illness is the leading organisation in its field, it is a Registered Charity (No. 280510) and it was established in 1979 to:
– Provide support to mothers suffering from post-natal illness
– Increase public awareness of the illness
– Encourage research into its cause and nature
