Student Mental Health - Additional services available in East Sussex
Counselling & Support Services
YOUNGMINDS.ORG.UK
Young Minds are the UK’s leading charity, supporting children and young people’s mental health. Find Coronavirus advice and support and resources, relating to anxiety, low self-esteem, drugs and alcohol, being a young carer and many other areas where young people may need support.
YoungMinds on Twitter - https://twitter.com/YoungMindsUK
YoungMinds crisis messenger - Text YM to 85258 if you need to talk to someone right now.
BARNARDO'S
Barnardo’s offer support with issues such as:-
Employment, training and skills
Homelessness
LGBTQ young people
NSPCC
The NSPCC offer support and advice for parents and carers, about how they can best support and protect children and young people. They offer support with mental health, sexuality and sexual orientation, social media advice and many other topics.
NSPCC Child Protection Helpline 0808 800 5000
I-ROCK
i-rock is a drop in counselling and advice service for young people aged between 14 – 25. Open Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11am – 6pm.
i-rock Eastbourne, Greencoat House, 32 St Leonard’s Road, Eastbourne, BN21 3UT
You don’t have to be sent to see us by a doctor or teacher, you can just pop in. It doesn’t matter how big or small your problem is, we’ll do our best to help you. i-Rock is a drop-in, so you can just turn up when you’re free, but if you’d like to book an appointment you can do so online.
Currently due to the new social distancing rules we have had to temporarily close our i-Rock sites, however we are now offering virtual appointments via your smart phone as well as support via telephone and email. Please contact us via the email links on our Facebook pages to arrange contact with one of our team.
Also, check out our Instagram page, (irockeastsussex) where you will find tips on keeping yourself well and an Instagram live session on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4.30pm.
i-Rock Eastbourne Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/iRockEastbourne
If you would be interested in accessing a telephone triage please enquire at irockhastings@gmail.com.
E-MOTION.ORG.UK
e-motion is a free online counselling project for young people aged 12 – 18, who live in East Sussex. You can communicate confidentially with a trained counsellor via email, or live messaging.
CHILDLINE
You can talk to us about anything. No problem is too big or too small. Call us free on 0800 1111 or get in touch online www.childline.org.uk.
Contact us, you are in control. It’s confidential, and you do not have to give your name if you don’t want to.
CHAT HEALTH EAST SUSSEX
Chat Health is a confidential texting service for young people aged 11 – 19. Young people can text the school health team about any concerns or health issues on 07507 332473.
SUSSEX COMMUNITY COUNSELLING
We offer counselling in Newhaven, Lewes, Hailsham and Eastbourne, to anyone aged 16 years and above. We offer an initial introductory session where you can ask questions and tell us a little about why you would like counselling.
A self-referral form can be found on https://sussexcommunity.org.uk/our-services/wellbeing/youth-counselling/
Visit the Sussex Community Website
SCHOOL NURSES DROP-IN
Our School Nurse will drop into school every other week. You can confidentially discuss any health issue with her. She can give advice, support and guidance on both mental and physical health, and you can speak to her just once, or talk to her regularly. Details on when the School Nurse is available will be given out by your tutor in September.
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
CHILD BEREAVEMENT UK - Rebuilding Lives Together
Call our Helpline: 0800 02 888 40
Child Bereavement UK on Twitter - (@cbukhelp)
Our vision is for all families to have the support they need to rebuild their lives, when a child grieves or when a child dies.
Visit the childbereavementuk website
ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE
The Seahorse Project – Offering bereavement support for children and young people.
Telephone: 01323 434200
Visit the St Wilfrid's Hospice Website
DRAGONFLIES - Bereavement Support
Dragonflies offer families, children and young people a safe space to share their feelings and experiences, and provides creative and therapeutic activities alongside group discussion. For children aged 5-18 years, a series of peer group sessions are delivered by trained staff and volunteers across Hastings, Rother and Eastbourne areas. The project offers one to one counselling for young people aged 15 years plus, and early years support for children aged 5 years and under.
FEGANS
Fegans aim to provide families most in need of parenting or therapeutic support with the care they require to become self-sufficient contributors to society and break generational cycles of behaviour. They provide a full range of professional counselling services in their centres and also in primary and secondary school for children as well as support workers that work with parents.
HAILSHAM YOUTH SERVICE
- Works with young people aged 11-25 years
- Aim to fully prepare young people for their future with good prospects, opportunities and social skills
- Provides youth work, support services and opportunities for young people in the local area
- Includes and accommodates the Square Youth Café and infopoint facilities
Visit the Hailsham Youth Service Website
YMCA COUNSELLING SERVICES PAN SUSSEX
Brighton and Hove, Hastings AND Eastbourne
In 2012 YMCA Dialogue counselling services were accredited by The British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy www.bacp.co.uk.
Issues including
Difficulties with parents, family, friends, partners or someone else
Sadness, depression, unhappiness – maybe life does not seem worth living
Anger, outbursts, or being violent causing concern to those around them
Worries about school, college or work
Concerns about sex or sexuality
Alcohol, using drugs, using legal highs
Someone close has died or is very ill
Experience of abuse whether sexual, physical, emotional
Self harm
Visit the YMCA Counselling Service Website
Free apps endorsed by the NHS
DISTRACT APP: The FREE distrACT app gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice about self-harm and suicidal thoughts. The content has been created by doctors and experts in self-harming and suicide prevention.
CALM HARM APP: Calm Harm is a FREE app designed to help people resist or manage the urge to self-harm. Its private and password protected.
Other useful contact details:
Police: 101 or email: 101@sussex.pnn.police.uk (In case of emergency dial 999)
SPOA (Single Point of Advice – Children’s Services): 01323 464222 or email: 0-19.SPOA@eastsussex.gov.uk
Domestic Abuse: The Portal, www.theportal.org.uk Helpline: 0300 3239985
CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services): 01323 446070 or email: SPNT.CAMHSHighmore@nhs.net
Eastbourne Foodbank: 01323 409925, email: food@eastbourne.foodbank.org.uk
Samaritans: if you need urgent mental health support, dial 116 123, where you can speak confidentially to a non-judgemental, empathic trained person who can offer you immediate help.
Please look after your Mental Health - Every Mind Matters!
With best wishes
The WCS Safeguarding Team
Willingdon Community School Safeguarding Team: talk2us@willingdonschool.org.uk
There will be a member of the Safeguarding Team monitoring this email address continually, whilst the school is partially closed.