Mental Health and Well Being

Seeking help for your child

Mental Health Webinar slides

Do you want to find out more information on how to best support your child's mental health and wellbeing? 

View our suite of sessions from the comfort of your own home!

These sessions were led by Natasha Deans (Special Educational Needs coordinator) and Daniel Dineen (Mental Health Coordinator) and aimed to positively promote mental health and social and emotional wellbeing in our students.

Session 1 - What is Mental Health?

Session 2 - Support service in and out of school

Session 3  - Parental strategies to support mental health

Support for parents

Support for Parents: Self-care

Support for Parents: Anxiety

Support for Parents: Sleep

Below is a list of resources that may be useful if you feel your child requires support:

Phonelines for immediate support

• Pause Birmingham

  Telephone: 0207 841 4470. The operating hours are between 10am-6pm, 7 days a week

• Samaritans

  Telephone: 116 123         Website: www.samaritans.org

• Childline

  Telephone: 0800 1111    Website: www.childline.org.uk

• Shout

  Text: 85258         Website: www.giveusashout.org

• Young Minds:

  Text: 85258         Website: youngminds.org.uk    Helpline for parents: 0808 802 5544

• Papyrus

  Telephone: 0800 068 41 41           Text: 07860 039967          Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org

• Sane Line

  Telephone: 0300 304 7000          Register for Textcare:  www.sane.org.uk/what_we_do/support/textcare

Online resources

• Moodjuice

  Website: www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk/mildmoderate/entry

• Mental Wellbeing Audio Guides

  Website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/moodzone-mental-wellbeing-audio-guides

• Hub of Hope is a website (also available as an app) that will locate local support to you based on your postcode, as well as providing a ‘talk now’ button connecting users directly to the Samaritans.

  hubofhope.co.uk

• Forward Thinking Birmingham

  Website: www.forwardthinkingbirmingham.org.uk/resources