What Help Is Available

If your school thinks that you would benefit from some support from elsewhere, then it will organise this for you. In this short video you can meet Gillian Shotton, who will explain the type of work she does with children in Northumberland.

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Chat Health

It's good to talk...Text your school nurse on 07507 332 258 for confidential advice and support. We help students aged 11-19 with all kinds of issues.

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Right Lines

RightLines aims to reach and work with young people aged between 13 and 35 who self-harm or might self-harm. RightLines want to enable them to develop understanding, strength and change. RightLines is a nationwide service delivered by remote means through www.right-lines.co.uk

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Chill Panda

Learn to relax, manage your worries and improve your wellbeing with Chill Panda. The app measures your heart rate and suggests tasks to suit your state of mind. Tasks include simple breathing techniques and light exercises to take your mind off your worries.

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Every Mind Matters

Every Mind Matters is here to help you manage and maintain your mental health, as good mental health makes such a difference. It helps us to relax more, achieve more and enjoy our lives more.

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Think Ninja

ThinkNinja is a mental health app designed for 10 to 18-year-olds. Using a variety of content and tools, it allows young people to learn about mental health and emotional wellbeing, and develop skills they can use to build resilience and stay well.

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Side by Side

Side by side is a supportive online community where you can feel at home talking about your mental health and connect with others who understand what you are going through.

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Recovery warriors

Rise Up + Recover is just the app for you if you are struggling with food, dieting, exercise and body image. Based on self-monitoring homework, a cornerstone of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), we designed a convenient and user-friendly app that has been used millions of time around the world.

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Relax Melodies

Having trouble unwinding & falling asleep? We get you, and we’ve got you. Sleep to your own beat with Relax Melodies. Tune-out stress, anxiety & fall asleep easily. Mix endless sounds & music, countless meditations, and shelves of stories with our smart technology.

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Papyrus

We exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives by shattering the stigma around suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to suicidal behaviour.

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Stonewall

We empower LGBT people to be their authentic selves, enabling them to realise and achieve their full potential, and we empower LGBT people and allies to create positive change.

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Kooth

Kooth.com is a free, online counselling and emotional wellbeing platform available to young people aged 11-25 in Northumberland.

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BlueIce

BlueIce is an evidenced-based app to help young people manage their emotions and reduce urges to self-harm.

It includes a mood diary, a toolbox of evidence-based techniques to reduce distress and automatic routing to emergency numbers if urges to harm continue.

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Calm Harm

Calm Harm is an app designed to help people resist or manage the urge to self-harm. It's private and password protected.

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Catch It

Learn how to manage feelings like anxiety and depression with Catch It. The app will teach you how to look at problems in a different way, turn negative thoughts into positive ones and improve your mental wellbeing.

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Distract

The 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.

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Acorns

Acorns offer a range of holistic services to meet the needs of families affected by domestic abuse in North Tyneside and Northumberland.

They offer a number of one to one services for children and young people aged from 4-18 For more information, please click here