The Resilience Hub aims to help NHS, social care and emergency service staff find information and psychological support for themselves, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The site includes links, videos and downloads to help staff manage the impact of different situations relating to COVID-19. There are pages aimed at individual workers, as well and pages for leaders and managers.

Visit the Hub’s website 

This site has a section on COVID-19 and mental wellbeing. It offers self-help tips, for managing loneliness, worry about COVID-19 and working from home. There are also suggestions for getting a better night's sleep. The site includes links to resources and national support services, to help you look after your mental wellbeing.

Visit Every Mind Matters' website

The Kind to Your Mind website was developed to help us look after our mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The campaign encourages us to:

• Take care of our mental wellbeing, as well as our physical health.
• Use the free wellbeing resources on the ALMA website. There are resources for both physical and mental wellbeing, such as online CBT courses and recommended apps.
• Ask for support if we're struggling. To find details of mental health support services, follow the steps below:

1. Click one of the blue age-related buttons above
2. Then look under the dark heading "Information and Support".  

For details of support services, if you need help right now, click I need urgent help.

Visit Kind to Your Mind's website

Living Life to the Full (LLTTF) has information, advice and resources to help you look after your mental wellbeing. These include a free, online courses and worksheets, based on CBT. The courses covers low mood, stress and resilience. 

Visit LLTTF’s website

This site brings together a wide range of free resources relating to mental health at work. It includes a section which covers COVID-19, mental health and work. The resources include information to help organisations look after their staff and guides for employees. 

Visit Mental Health at Work's website

This site practical has suggestions for how you can look after your mental wellbeing and support others, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The information covers people of all ages, from babies to older people. Advice is given for a range of different situations and life events, which COVID-19 could affect.

Visit the Mental Health Foundation's website

The mental wellbeing and COVID-19 information on Mind’s site covers a wide range of issues. These include coping with going into work, young people, your rights to social care, trauma, bereavement and grief. The site also includes links to helpful resources, national support services and government advice.

Visit Mind's website

The MindEd Coronavirus Staff Resilience Hub provides information and advice for frontline staff, working through the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim is to help staff manage their mental health and wellbeing.

The areas covered include:

• Helping each other
• Tips for managers and team leaders
• Stress and fear
• Trauma and distress
• End of life and bereavement
• Further resources for managers

Visit MindEd's website 

Our Frontline provides one to one mental health support, to front line staff, who are working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trained volunteers offer support 24/7, via call or text. There are separate web pages and resources for key workers in health, emergency services, education, social care and other essential services. 

Visit the web pages for Our Frontline 

This site has a section on COVID-19 and support for patients and carers. The information is aimed at adults and young people who are experiencing mental health problems, also their parents and carers. 

Visit the RCPsych’s website

Samaritans' site has a page relating to COVID-19, mental health and wellbeing. This covers:

• tips fortaking care of your mental health
• if you're feeling anxious about lockdown easing
• if you've lost a friend or family member
• if you're worried about someone else
• looking after your mental health at home
• working during coronavirus
• if you're a key worker
• advice for students

Visit Samaritans' website

Childline has pages for children and young people, who might be anxious or worried about COVID-19. The site also has an online community, where children can get support from their peers and can find resources to help them with anything they're worried about.

Visit Childline's website

This site has pages offering advice and resources to help young people look after their mental wellbeing, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The information includes difficulties that young people might be experiencing, as well as information and tips for building resilience and coping better. 

Visit the Children's Society website

This website includes several pages focusing on children and young people's mental health, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The areas covered include:

• returning to school after lockdown
• coping during COVID-19: through babies' eyes
• parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
• coping with COVID-19: a guide for young people
• talking to your children about the COVID-19 pandemic
• behind the books: mental health tips for uni students

Visit the Mental Health Foundation’s website 

This site has information and advice to help parents and carers support children and young people, through the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Visit the NSPCC's website

Winston's Wish is a UK charity that supports bereaved children, young people and their families following the death of a parent or sibling. Support is available via a free helpline, email, Crisis Messenger, online chat and grief support groups. The site has information on supporting grieving children and young people during the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Visit the website of Winston's Wish

This service supports people who need practical help during the COVID-19 pandemic. This could be people who are self-isolating, who are clinically vulnerable, or carers.

The support offered includes:

• Collecting and delivering food shopping and other essential items.
• Collecting and delivering prescriptions, from pharmacies.
• Regular chats by phone, for people who are isolated.
• Transport to medical appointments.

You’ll find more details on the link below, including who is eligible for support from the service and how to register.

Visit the NHS Volunteer Responders’ website

Good Neighbours offers support to people who are socially isolated, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The support volunteers can offer includes:

• Ringing you for a chat every week.
• Collecting your shopping, or prescriptions.
• Meeting you for walks.

You can contact Good Neighbours to ask for support yourself, or a professional can refer you into the service. To get support from Good Neighbours you need to:

• Live in Warrington.
• Be aged 18, or over.
• Be unable to carry out activities by yourself, due to barriers such as health, age, disability or COVID-19.
• Have no one in your support network that can help.

You can find more details on the link below. Good Neighbours is run by Warrington Voluntary Action. 

Visit Good Neighbours' webpages

Warrington Wellbeing
This Team helps people get the information, advice and practical support they need to improve their health and wellbeing. The Team offers free, one to one support, to help people manage things like loneliness, money worries, health problems and reducing smoking.

Anyone over the age of 18 who lives or works in Warrington can self-refer into the Service. People can also refer family members and friends. Some information and advice is provided by the Team members themselves, but when specialist advice is needed Wellbeing staff will refer people on to the appropriate service. For more information visit the webpage below, or call the Warrington Wellbeing team on 01925 248460.

Visit Warrington Wellbeing's webpage

The Safe & Well Service
This service is part of Warrington Wellbeing. The Safe & Well Service supports people who are clinically extremely vulnerable and are self-isolating because of COVID-19. The Safe & Well Service gives advice and support to make sure that people have a reliable food supply and that their medication is delivered. Reassurance calls, general advice and signposting to other services can also be provided. People can self-refer, or can refer others into the Safe and Well Service. A referral form and more details about the support that the Service offers, can be found on the link below. Referrals are also accepted though Contact Warrington, call 01925 443322.

Visit WBC's coronavirus webpages