Resources:

Worried about your child’s behaviour or mental health? Not sure where to start looking for help? HappyMaps will guide you to websites, books, videos and Apps to help you and your child, plus there is information on being referred for specialist help, how to find counselling and support for parents.

Funded by Health Education England and supported by Bristol Mind, HappyMaps is designed to help parents find helpful and reliable resources on behaviour and mental health for their children – from babies and children to young adults. These resources include websites, videos, books, Apps and helplines. We hope this will be really useful for parents whose children don’t meet the specialist referral thresholds or are perhaps on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting list. There is good general national information and also local information on counselling, charities, local CAMHS and parenting groups for the South-West.

HappyMaps website

Kooth is an online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people, accessible through mobile, tablet and desktop and free at the point of use.

• Chat to counsellors
• Read articles written by young people
• Get support from the Kooth community
• Write in a daily journal

Kooth website

NSUN are a network of people and groups living in England who have and do experience mental distress and want to change things for the better. By connecting our members, and amplifying their experiences and aspirations, we influence policy, practice and perception, in order to reduce disadvantage and discrimination and stop people being ignored and isolated.

National Survivor User Network (NSUN) website

PAPYRUS is the national charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide.

They provide confidential support and advice to young people struggling with thoughts of suicide, and anyone worried about a young person through our helpline, HOPELINEUK.

PAPYRUS website

The Bristol Independent Mental Health Network (BIMHN) represents a diverse community of past, current and future users of Bristol’s mental health services, as well as those with lived experiences of mental health.

We provide a safe space for people to confidentially share their needs and experiences of services, while we campaign for change by holding local providers to account.

BIMHN also acts against discrimination, and promotes a positive understanding of mental health through education.

Bristol Independent Mental Health Network (BIMHN) website

The Beehive Centre aims to reduce social isolation and connect communities in Whitehall and St. George.

The Centre hosts social events and activities such as like Tai Chi, Line Dance, Keep Fit, Art & Craft, Internet Cafe & Lunch Club and  many of our activities are tailored to the needs of older people (55+ years).

The Beehive Centre website

Marmalade Trust offers a vital link between lonely people and the communities and resources that can help them.

In a nutshell:

• WHAT: We recognise and raise awareness of loneliness
• HOW: We support and signpost people to new resources and communities
• WHY: To empower people to make new friendships and connections

We have a positive and proactive approach to loneliness and we want to normalise the conversation around it. There is nothing wrong with feeling lonely: it’s just a lack of social connections. We aim to lose the stigma around loneliness and rather than seeing it as a negative, shameful or hopeless thing, we want to educate people to see loneliness as a blank canvas on which they can fill their lives with new friends and experiences.

We all feel lonely at some point but the good news is that it is entirely fixable. We are committed to changing the language of loneliness to make it a conversation about connections instead.

Marmalade Trust website

Hillfields Family and Community Trust offers low cost counselling services to anyone who has become a parent under the age of 25, as well as the children of young parents, no matter their current age.

Based in the Hillfields Community Hub in Fishponds, they provide individual, one-hour, humanistic counselling sessions at an agreed time once a week. Sessions start at £10.

Although you may want to explore issues relating to pregnancy, parenthood or being the child of a young parent, all issues are welcome. All Hillfields therapists are members of the BACP and adhere to their professional standards and ethical framework.

Please contact Claire on 07765 361 070 or at clairewirsig@gmail.com for an informal chat or to arrange an initial appointment.

Hillfields Counselling Service website

Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from their addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances. There are no dues or fees for membership; we are fully self-supporting through our own contributions.

Anyone who wants to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances (including alcohol and other drugs) is welcome.

UK Helpline:  0800 612 0225
Local info line:  07760 632 986
Email: info@casw.co.uk
Website: www.casw.co.uk 

Cocaine Anonymous website

Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) is a fellowship of men and women who meet regularly to solve our common problem of sexual addiction.

Our individual sexual addictions have involved any number of practices.  Some of us had trouble with one unwanted behaviour, some with many.  All of us once felt trapped in a cycle of addictive sexual behaviour.  In SAA we have found a means of recovery which has released us from our addiction.  As part of our recovery programme, we try to help others who have similar problems.  The programme is based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, although we are not affiliate with AA.

• National Helpline:  07599 917 686
• Bristol meetings helpline:  07794 769 494
• Email: info@saa-recovery.org.uk
• Website: www.saa-recovery.org.uk 

Sex Addicts Anonymous website