Where can I get help with my problems?
School staff are not mental health specialists and will be sign posting you to the following agencies to get help and support – you can do this yourselves directly through the links provided below:
- Talk to your parent/carer
- Visit your GP
- Speak to your School Nurse: Information on School Nurse during Covid-19 school closure
- Speak to your Progress Leader and ask for a School Counsellor referral
- Speak to your Progress Leader and ask for coping strategies around anxiety
- KOOTH – https://kooth.com/ (Free, safe anonymous online support)
- Off The Record – Midsomer Norton – http://offtherecord-banes.co.uk/ (confidential counselling service in Midsomer Norton High Street)
- Young Carers – https://www.banescarerscentre.org.uk/youngcarers/ (Support for students that have caring responsibilities)
- NSPCC – https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/contact-us/ (support for children around problems they may be having )
- Child line – https://www.childline.org.uk/ – support for children around problems they may be having
- Samaritans – https://www.samaritans.org/ support for children around problems they may be having
- CAMHS – BANES – https://secureforms.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/camhs/BaNES.aspx – mental health support – online referral directly
- BANES Parents leaflet – an interactive guidance leaflet for parents and carers of children and young people with mental health problems.
- LGBTQI+ support is available by emailing space@offtherecord-
banes.co.uk. Or call or text: 07487 642761
Resources
- Returning to School After Lockdown (Kooth tips and advice or students)
- Managing anxiety (Kate Holden, BaNES Mental Health Support Team)
- Strategies to help with anxiety
- Assembly about Kooth (video 11 minutes long)
- Summer of Kindness (The British Red Cross have provided this resource to support children and young people and to help keep them entertained over the summer.)
- Self-care Summer (Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families resources to help young people create their own self-care plan and activities.)
- Anxious about Covid-19? (NHS page on ways to limit Covid-19 anxieties.)
