Mental Health and wellbeing links

Children and Young People’s Wellbeing

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has impacted on children and young people’s mental health. They’ve had to adjust to dramatic changes in their education, routine and home life and some have experienced bereavement or other traumatic experiences during the lockdown period.

We aim for the creative activities in this pack to provide an outlet or positive activity to improve children and young people’s mental and physical wellbeing. If you are concerned, there are lots of free, useful websites to provide help and advice for children and young people struggling with their mental health, here are a few:

Young Minds is the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people’s mental health. Their website has excellent advice and support on how to take better care of yourself.

Childline is a free service to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through. Whether it’s something big or small, Childline’s trained counsellors are there to provide support.

Kooth provides online counselling and free, safe, anonymous support for children and young people.

The Mix is the UK’s leading support service for young people. They will help with any challenge - from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs.

The Samaritans offers a safe place for children and young people to talk at any time in their own way,about whatever they want to.

Shout is the UK’s first 24/7 text service, free on all major mobile networks, for anyone in crisis anytime, anywhere.

Cruse Bereavement Care offers telephone advice, email and website support for anyone who is dealing with grief or loss.

Mental Health Support Teams for Schools

There are two Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in Nottingham City offering support across 37 schools within the city. MHSTs are part of a national project that is NHS England funded and they offer a collaborative, system-wide approach to support the mental wellbeing of children in both Primary and Secondary schools and colleges. This support is in addition to the other services that are offered within schools in Nottingham and by the Targeted CAMHS team, Community CAMHS team and third sector agencies such as Kooth and Base51 that are available to Children and Young people.

Go to Ask Lion to find out more

CAMHS Flyer

Time for Wellbeing Calendar – for primary and secondary schools.

ChalleNGe Nottingham has worked with partners across the city to create a digital ‘Time for Wellbeing’ calendar for 30 days! There is a short 2-3min wellbeing video for each day of the month, with activities based on the ‘5 Ways of Wellbeing’ Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give.

For all the video links and teacher guides, go to: http://bit.ly/ChalleNGeTFW

If you have any photos, videos or artwork that come from taking part in the activities, please share them with us on social media #TimeForWellbeing @ChalleNGeNottm