Support for Examination Stress
- Support guide: https://cloud.brandmaster.com/shared/assets/8eacbc5ae595999be458
- Exam stress recorded webinar: https://vimeo.com/939112193?share=copy
- The ultimate exam stress toolkit: https://explore.kooth.com/the-ultimate-exam-stress-toolkit/
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Kooth: https://www.kooth.com/
Kooth is an online mental wellbeing community which offers free, safe, and anonymous support.
Chat Health: Text service supporting young people: https://www.startingwellworcs.nhs.uk/news/text-service-supporting-young-people-1753
Chat health is a free and confidential text service for young people in need of advice or support.
To confidentially contact your school nurse, text: 07507331750
CAMHS: https://camhs.hacw.nhs.uk/
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust (hacw.nhs.uk) CAMHS provides mental health help to children, young people and their families across Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Reach 4 Wellbeing: https://camhs.hacw.nhs.uk/reach4wellbeing
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust (hacw.nhs.uk) The Reach4Wellbeing team promotes positive wellbeing to reduce the stigma of mental health by providing short-term group programmes for children and young people age 5-18 experiencing mild to moderate anxiety and low mood.
Healthy Minds (whct.nhs.uk): https://www.healthyminds.whct.nhs.uk/home
Healthy Minds’ 24/7 mental health helpline provides support or advice if you, or someone you know, is experiencing a mental health crisis and needs urgent help. Its available 24 hours a day to anyone in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Papyrus UK Suicide Prevention: https://www.papyrus-uk.org/
Prevention of Young Suicide (papyrus-uk.org) Papyrus can offer suicide prevent support providing free and confidential helplines, advice, webchats, and resources.
Winston’s Wish: https://www.winstonswish.org/
This link gives hope to grieving children (winstonswish.org) Winston’s Wish provide support for children and young people following the death of a sibling, parent, or a person important to a child.
- Anxiety UK www.anxietyuk.org.uk
- OCD UK www.ocduk.org
- Depression Alliance www.depressoinalliance.org
- Eating Disorders www.b-eat.co.uk and www.inourhands.com
- National Self-Harm Network www.nshn.co.uk Self-Harm www.selfharm.co.uk Suicidal thoughts Prevention of young suicide UK – PAPYRUS: www.papyrus-uk.org
There are more links within this link on our school website:
Support for Students: https://website.droitwichspahigh.worcs.sch.uk/index.php/student-development-and-support/mental-health-wellbeing-and-safeguarding/support-for-students/
Support for Parents / Carers and staff: https://website.droitwichspahigh.worcs.sch.uk/index.php/student-development-and-support/mental-health-wellbeing-and-safeguarding/support-for-parents-and-staff/
The Mix
Telephone: 0808 808 4994
The Mix is the UK’s leading support service for young people.
We are here to help you take on any challenge you’re facing – from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. Talk to us via online, social or our free, confidential helpline.
Anna Freud Centre
Telephone: 0207 794 2313
Email: info@annafreud.org
A children’s mental health charity providing specialist help and training and carrying out research.
STEM4
Email: enquiries@stem4.org.uk
STEM4 aims to improve teenage mental health by stemming commonly occurring mental health issues. at an early stage.
Rethink Mental Illness
Telephone: 0300 5000 927 (Weekdays 9:30 – 16:00)
Email: info@rethink.org / advice@rethink.org
Address: Rethink Mental Illness, 89 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7TP Rethink is a national mental health membership charity. It works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life. Its aim is to make a practical and positive difference by providing hope and empowerment through effective services, information and support.
Rethink carries out research which informs national mental health policy and actively campaigns for change through greater awareness and understanding.
Mind
Telephone: 0300 123 3393 (Weekdays 9:00 – 17:00)
Text: 86463
Email: info@mind.org
National mental health charity, which offers an excellent range of materials on all aspects of depression and manic depression. It also lists details of local Mind Associations.
Youthhealthtalk!
A website with video interviews of young people’s real life experiences of health and lifestyle. There is a section on young people talking about their experiences of depression and eating disorders.
Students Against Depression
www.studentsagainstdepression.org
Students Against Depression offers information and resources validated by health professionals alongside tips and advice from students who have experienced it all themselves.
YoungMinds Parents’ Helpline
www.youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/parents-helpline/
Telephone: 0808 802 5544 (Weekdays 9:30 – 16:00) Email through website / parents@youngminds.org.uk
Can be contacted through social media
Offers free confidential online and telephone support to any adult worried about the emotional problems, behaviour or mental health of a child or young person up to the age of 25.
MY HAPPY MIND
Offers courses for teachers
Heads Together
https://www.headstogether.org.u
Stamp Out Suicide
Points of contact for those feeling suicidal, bereaved by suicide or concerned about suicide.
Promoting suicide awareness and prevention
YoungMinds Parents’ Helpline
www.youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/parents-helpline/
Telephone: 0808 802 5544 (Weekdays 9:30 – 16:00) Email through website / parents@youngminds.org.uk
The Starting Well Partnership
The Starting Well Partnership support families, parents, children and young people across Worcestershire to lead happy, healthy and fulfilled lives. Within this link you will find support for bullying, mental health and wellbeing, drug and alcohol misuse, relationships and sexual health, sexuality and identity, homelessness and links to ChatHealth. Furthermore, for parents and carers, there is support for parenting, parental wellbeing, parental workshops, access to telephone advisory lines, financial and childcare, helpful courses, children who are being bullied, Parent Talk, reducing parental conflict, families affected by parental imprisonment amongst other useful links.
https://www.startingwellworcs.nhs.uk/
Worcestershire Children’s Advocacy – Supporting Children & Young People to Speak up and be Heard
Barnardo’s Ukrainian support helpline
The service provides free therapy with a qualified psychotherapist – delivered via the phone or online, with access to interpreters. All services include access to interpreters in Ukrainian and Russian.
The number for the service: 0800 148 8586
Link to the service is here – site also available in Ukrainian.
- Content Spotlight: Spring Mindfulness Craft
- Pre-K & K: Dragon & Bee Breathing Mindfulness Video
- Pre-K & K: Our Sense Calming Break Video
- Elementary: Self-Regulation Academy – Box Breathing
- Elementary: Hot Air Balloon Breathing Video
- Middle & High: 360 Breathing Mindfulness Video
Middle & High: The Power of Breath Video
Onside Mood Masters: MoodMaster sessions focus on a different topics each week. They provide simple coping skills that can be put into practice while making a real difference to
someone’s day to day living. Topics include improving sleep patterns and relaxation, dealing with stress and worry, problem solving and friendships. For more details about courses or to book a place, call ONSIDE’s Access Hub: 01905 27525, or email accesshub@onside-advocacy.org.uk
Girls and Women’s Health Hub Webpage: Now Live Herefordshire & Worcestershire’s ICS Girls and Women’s Health Hub webpage is now live. Developed by colleagues across Herefordshire & Worcestershire, the webpage is a great resource to signpost girls and women to accurate and reliable information, share self-referral forms, prepare patients for appointments, offer tips and tools to support self-management. There are a series of pages dedicated to different conditions, with condition specific information and support in preparing for appointments.