Thank you for referring in to Parenting 2000.

In the meantime, whilst you wait, we would like to suggest a few things that could help…

Websites

Anxiety helpline and text support – www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Online support including chat service – www.qwell.io

For information on where to go for urgent or crisis support – www.kooth.com/urgent-support

For support around suicidal feelings including a web chat – www.thecalmzone.net

Online support available for depression – www.mind.org.uk

When someone close to a child has died or when a child has died, includes a helpline – www.childbereavementuk.org

When someone has died through suicide, includes a helpline – www.uksobs.org

Eating disorders helpline and online support – www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk

Apps

Start to track your mood using an app such as Mood Panda

Self help

Use a workbook with your child to help work through techniques to help with sleep such as “What to Do When You Dread Your Bed: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Sleep” (What to Do Guides for Kids) by Dawn Huebner 

Try spending 15 minutes a day with your child on your own doing something basic but fun for example making paper aeroplanes

Try to refocus the brain on something else when we’re angry such as stepping outside in the cold with bare feet or running our wrists under cold water

Courses

Youth Connect 5 – a 5 week course run by Parenting 2000 for parents and carers of children and young people which aims to improve understanding of mental wellbeing. More information…

Go on an online course such as those offered on Anxiety UK – www.anxietyuk.org.uk/get-help/anxiety-uk-courses-and-groups/

One off sessions

Ticking Over – a Parenting 2000 run one off 30 minute session on Friday afternoons for children and young people aged 9-19 years, as well as parents/carers, to help you keep ticking over until a further appointment comes through. A chance to discuss any worries or concerns and to be signposted within or outside of Parenting 2000. Appointments will be offered at the time of the initial referral acceptance call, as well for those checking their position on the waiting list.