Who the service is for
The Amparo service is for individuals and families who have been bereaved or affected by suicide. This covers people directly bereaved by suicide and people who found the deceased (including staff from blue light services who attended the scene). It also covers people affected by a suicide in their school, workplace or community. There isn't a lower age limit for the service, if a parent accessing the service has children, Amparo can also support the children and signpost them to appropriate services.

Support the service offers
Individuals and families
Amparo provides practical, confidential, one-to-one support for people following a suicide. This can be over the phone, or through home or community based visits. The aim is to ensure people bereaved or affected by suicide are able to get appropriate and timely practical and emotional support. The range of support available from Amparo includes help dealing with the Police and the Coroner, support at the inquest and help with media enquiries. Amparo also helps people identify what emotional support they might need, then refers or signposts people to the most appropriate support services in their local area.

Support the service offers
Schools and organisations
Amparo can provide support, in the form drop-in sessions, to schools and organisations affected by suicide. These sessions can lead to people referring themselves into the service.

Referral into the service
People bereaved or affected by suicide can self-refer into the service. Coroners, health professionals and staff from statutory, community and voluntary sector services can also refer people into Amparo. The site includes a web form for referrals.

To request support for a school, organisation, or community, the person who has identified a need, or the lead person, should get in touch with Amparo by phone or email.

Tel. 0330 088 9255
Email amparo.service@listening-ear.co.uk
Visit Amparo's webpage

Who the service is for
Child Bereavement UK supports and educates families, professionals and schools when a baby or child dies or is dying, or when a child is facing bereavement.

Support the service offers
Support is available via phone or email and includes:

• a confidential listening service
• advice, guidance and information
• signposting to other organisations

Support for schools
Child Bereavement UK has web pages specifically for schools with resources that can be downloaded or bought. Specialised training is also available, on which schools can buy places. For primary schools there's a free awareness programme, Elephant's Tea Party, which aims to help equip pupils with life skills to cope with bereavement.

Accessing the service
Individuals and schools can contact the charity directly themselves.

Tel. 01494 568917
Tel. 0800 02 888 40 support and information
Email support@childbereavementuk.org
Visit Child Bereavement UK's website

If you are looking for bereavement support for children or young people, you can find details of other services offering bereavement support, by clicking here and scrolling down to the heading "organisations which offer support when someone has died".

Who the service is for
The service is for children and young people experiencing one or more of the following issues:

• neurodevelopmental disorders - such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
• neurodisability - such as cerebral palsy
• chromosomal abnormalities - such as Down's syndrome
• learning difficulties

The service is open to children and young people aged 0–16, or up to 19 years, if they’re attending a special school.

Support the service offers
Community Paediatricians offer advice, support and treatment at the Child Development Centre and at clinics across Warrington. The aims are to help children, young people and their caregivers manage their condition; to reduce the likelihood of major intervention in the future; and to increase quality of life. The Community Paediatric Service is not a curative service, so children are discharged from the service when they, their carers, or others working with and supporting them, can manage their condition.

Referral into the service
Referrals can be made by health professionals, specialist teachers and educational specialists. Depending on the age of the child, the person referring them to the complex care panel should use the under four, or over four referral form. Referral forms sent to the Child Development Centre are processed weekly. The service has a waiting list for first appointments, but all children are seen within 18 weeks of referral.

For general enquiries regarding Community Paediatrics, specific enquiries about a child, or questions about a referral please get in touch with your Health Visitor or School Nurse. (Contact details for School Nurses are under the "School Health Service" dropdown heading).

Consultant Community Paediatrician
Child Development Centre
Tel. 01925 867867
Visit Bridgewater NHS Trust’s website

Who the service is for
The educational Psychology Service is for children and young people aged 0-25, who have additional learning needs and/or disabilities. This could include:

The Service aims to:

• Add to the understanding of the child, or young person and their situation
• Work with them to support them to achieve their goals and aspirations. 

Support the service offers
Support is provided to children and young people through the educational setting they attend. The Service receives requests for involvement directly from these settings. The involvement of the Educational Psychology Service can include:

• work at a whole school level
• research
• training for staff
• consultation relating to individual pupils
• direct assessment and intervention

Referral into the service
Requests for the Educational Psychology Service to work with an individual pupil (or a group of pupils) can be made by schools or settings using the "request for involvement" form. The Service works for individual children, but who the Service works with is directed by schools, based on their prioritisation of need. Parents can speak to their school SENCo, about accessing the Service for thier child, as part of a graduated response.

Tel. 01925 442917
Email additionalneeds@warrington.gov.uk 

Who the service is for
The service is for people aged 16 and over who are registered with a Warrington GP. The treatments are designed for people experiencing difficulties such as stress, low mood, panic, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Support the service offers
Treatments include guided self-help and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Due to COVID-19 Talking Matters Warrington is currently providing psychological support by phone, video conferencing and through the Silvercloud e-therapy platform. 

Staff offer free talks to schools (for staff and pupils aged over 16) and other organisations, to raise awareness of the service and the support it can offer.

Referral into the service
People can be referred into the service by a GP, or can refer themselves by:

• emailing a referral form to tmw.referrals@nhs.net
  
• calling 01925 401720 and leaving a message for staff to ring them back

The referral form can be downloaded from Talking Matters’ webpages. 

Who the service is for
The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) provides support to 40 primary and secondary schools and colleges in Warrington. You can download a list of the schools and colleges which the Team currently supports, as a PDF here. The plan is that the service will expand to cover other schools and colleges within Warrington.

The aims of the service are to:

• Promote the early detection and prevention of mental health problems across the whole school.
• Strengthen links between schools and mental health services.

Support the service offers
The team provides direct, ongoing support to schools around mental health and wellbeing. This includes:

• Providing direct interventions to pupils with mild to moderate mental health conditions, such as anxiety, low mood or behavioural difficulties.
• Referring pupils who require specialist support, to local services such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
• Providing training, education and advice to school staff, to help them better support pupils’ mental and emotional wellbeing.
• Championing mental wellbeing and resilience across the whole school.
• Providing guidance around issues such as bullying and coping with exam stress.

The service complements the other mental health support that schools have access to, such as CAMHS’ School Link Programme and Mental Health First Aid training for schools.

Referral into the service
A child’s school can refer them into the service. Usually the referral would be made by the school’s mental health lead, however CAMHS can also refer. Children or families should speak with the child’s school if they would like to be referred to, or consult with the service.

Warrington Mental Health Support Team can be contacted on: 01925 664120

Mind Works runs regular drop-in sessions for young people, living in Warrington, who are under 18. The drop-in sessions give young people the opportunity to speak with a worker from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) about any concerns they have in relation to their mental health. Young people can attend the drop-in by themselves, or can take someone with them. No appointment, or referral is needed.

Professionals and family members can also use the drop-in sessions, if they need advice for someone they’re working with, or for a young family member. 

If you have any worries about your mental health and wellbeing, you can come along to our weekly Mind Works drop-in clinics so you can speak to a mental health professional about any concerns you have.

No matter how big or small, our staff will talk to you and ask questions about your difficulties, then offer advice and signpost you to other local services that can help if needed.

It’s an informal drop-in session, so you don’t need to make an appointment – you can just turn up.

Who the service is for

• Individual young people
  Relate’s young people's counselling service is for any young person aged 11-18 who’s having difficulties such as depression, mental health problems, issues with parents or people at school.

• Schools
  In schools Relate works largely with children and young people who have mild to moderate mental health difficulties (CAMHS Tiers 1 and 2).

Support the service offers

• Individual young people
  Face to face, confidential counselling is available to young people in Warrington, at The Gateway, 85-101 Sankey Street, Warrington WA1 1SR. Relate’s counsellors offer young people support and opportunity to explore and make better sense of what’s happening in their lives. Young people can also talk to counsellors for free using the live webchat on Relate’s national website.

• Schools
  Relate’s counselling services can be bought in by schools. Children and young people see Relate counsellors about a range of different issues. These issues often include family breakdown, bullying and peer relationships, bereavement, the formation of new families or the absence of a family member in their life. Supervision and training is also offered to schools by Relate.

Accessing the service
To access Warrington’s young people counselling service, children and young people aged 11-15 need to be referred by a parent or carer. Young people aged 16-18 can refer themselves. Referrals should be made by ringing or emailing, contact details are below.

How to contact the service:

Email Cheshire and Merseyside Relate on: enquiries@relatecm.org.uk
Ring Cheshire and Merseyside Relate: 0300 330 5793

• Schools
  Visit the organisations' page of Relate Cheshire & Merseyside’s website.

• Young people's counselling
  Visit the young people's counselling pages of Relate's website
  

Who the service is for
School-aged children, young people and their families.

Support the service offers
The School Health Team leads and delivers the Healthy Child Programme for school-aged children and young people. The community based teams work in partnership with school-aged children, young people and their families, schools and other health professionals. The aims of the service are to address health needs and to promote health and wellbeing, with a focus on early help and support.

The School Health Service delivers a range of initiatives to promote children and young people's health and emotional wellbeing in schools and in the community, including:

• providing health information, advice and support
• assessing the health of children
• supporting young people, within special schools, who have particular medical needs
• providing training for education staff
• developing school health plans
• delivering classroom-based health education
• delivering the national child measurement programme
• working with and referring to other agencies to safeguard and protect children and young people

• High school drop-in sessions
  Pupils can access confidential health advice and support at the weekly health and wellbeing drop-in sessions, which run at all Warrington’s high schools.
  
  
• Solution focused brief intervention
  This therapy is aimed at young people aged 11-19 years, who are having difficulties with low mood, anxiety, stress, anger, bullying, self-esteem, or sleep.
  
  Solution focused brief intervention techniques are easy to learn; can help people recognize their strengths and personal resources; and can encourage people to focus on what’s going well. A maximum of six sessions is offered. The sessions can take place in school or at another location.

Referral into the service
Referrals are accepted from young people themselves and can also be made by parents, carers, school staff, health professionals and staff from social care or children’s services.

There are two referral forms, a general form and a form for referring into solution focused brief intervention.

For more information visit the school nursing service pages on Bridgewater NHS Trust’s website.

Warrington CAMHS supports children and young people, who are under 18, with emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.

CAMHS provides assessment, treatment and signposting for young people using the national THRIVE framework. THRIVE is a tierless model, based on the needs of young people, rather than on diagnosis or severity of symptoms. You can find more information about Warrington CAMHS on the health professionals’ section of North West Boroughs Healthcare’s website. There is also information about CAMHS, which is tailored for children, young people and families, on this page of the site.

Who the service is for
The Young People's Community Eating Disorder Service is for children and young people, who have symptoms of an eating disorder, are aged eight to 18 and live Warrington, Halton, Knowsley or St Helens.

The service works with young people with different types of eating disorder including anorexia, bulimia and eating disorder not otherwise specified (also known as EDNOS).

Support the service offers
The service provides assessment, treatment and support to young people with eating disorders and their families. Support offered includes one-to-one support, family therapy and support from a qualified dietitian. The service also works closely with local schools and colleges to raise awareness of eating disorders and to support the identification of eating disorders amongst pupils and staff.

Referral into the service
The service accepts referrals from GPs, teachers, school nurses, social workers and other health professionals.
Tel: 0151 430 1321
Email: mid-merseyceds@nwbh.nhs.uk

Visit North West Borough's website

This site, was developed by the charity Place2B, to support Children’s Mental Health Week, which takes place in February each year. The free resources include activities and ideas to help primary and secondary school pupils explore and understand mental and physical wellbeing. There are sections on the site for schools and youth groups and for parents and carers, each has their own set of resources.

The school resources for 2022 can be adapted for use in school, or at home.

Resources from Children’s Mental Health Week in previous years are also available to download from the site. These materials focus on resilience, kindness, celebrating uniqueness and being healthy inside and out.

Visit the website of Children’s Mental Health Week

Public Health England has a range of mental wellbeing resources for schools. These were developed in collaboration with teachers and 10 to 16 year olds. The materials are flexible and include lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations and videos to help teachers deliver the PHSE curriculum to upper KS2, KS3 and KS4 pupils. All the materials are free to download or access online.

The areas covered include:

• Physical and mental wellbeing
• Unhelpful thoughts
• Building connections
• Worry
• Social media
• Sleep
• Dealing with change
• Transition to secondary school
• Puberty
• Bullying and cyberbullying
• Online stress and FOMO
• Alcohol
• Exam stress
• Body image in a digital world
• Forming positive relationships

Visit PHE’s website

This organisation has produced a set of free mental health resources for parents, carers and staff who work with young people aged 8-24. The aim of the #HandsUp4HealthyMinds toolkit is to help adults have conversations with young people about mental health. The toolkit includes:

• infographics
• GIFs
• videos
• downloadable materials for young people
• an online quiz
• a PowerPoint presentation on why mental health matters in schools 

Visit MHFA’s website

As part of the “Make it Count” campaign, the Mental Health Foundation has produced guides for pupils, parents and teachers. You can download the guides from the links below:

• Make it Count: Guide for pupils
  This guide explains what mental health is and outlines ways in which children and young people can look after their mental health. It also lists support services.
  
  
• Make it Count: Guide for parents and carers
  This guide covers what mental health is and ways in which parents and carers can help young people look after their mental health. Details of websites offering further information or support are also included.
  
  
• Make it Count: Guide for teachers
  This guide aims to help teachers create a classroom and school environment where children can thrive and develop good mental health.

The Mentally Health Schools' site offers information and resources to help staff in primary schools understand and promote children’s mental health and wellbeing. The site is divided into four sections:

• Teaching resources: which focuses on how schools can promote and build pupils' mental health and wellbeing. This section includes a range of quality-assured teaching resources.
  
  
• Risks and protective factors: which explores how schools can identify children who might face greater risks. This section provides resources to help protect against risk and to build children’s resilience.
  
  
• Mental health needs: which focuses on children who are struggling, or who are experiencing mental health problems. This section aims to help schools understand their role and how they can help promote recovery. 
  
  
• Whole-school approach: which aims to help school leaders develop support across the whole school, to enable children, families and staff to thrive.

Visit the Mentally Healthy Schools website

PAPYRUS’ work focuses on preventing young suicide. Some of the resources and services available from the charity have been developed specifically for schools.

• #SavetheClass campaign: this aims to raise awareness of the issue of suicide in schoolchildren; and to highlight what can be done to help prevent young suicide.
  
  
• Building Suicide-Safer Schools and Colleges, a guide for teachers and staff (PDF): the purpose of the guide is to help equip teachers with skills and knowledge to support young people who may be having suicidal thoughts.
  
  
• Suicide prevention training: Individuals, or groups can buy places on the training, or organisations, such as schools, can commission sessions on suicide prevention for both young people and staff.

The Step by Step service offers support, resources and practical advice to schools and colleges where young people have been impacted by an attempted, or suspected suicide. Information and guidance is available on the website and from the Step by Step Team of advisors. The resource "Help When We Needed it Most", can be downloaded from the site.

Visit Samaritans' website

DEAL is a free web based teaching resource, for use with young people (aged 14 and over). The DEAL materials aim to help young people develop resilience, coping strategies and communication skills. The resource was developed by Samaritans in consultation with young people and schools. DEAL’s lesson plans, activities, hand-outs, digital resources, teachers’ notes and staff training materials can all be downloaded free.

Visit Samaritans' website

Talks in schools
Samaritans' volunteers from local branches are sometimes available to visit schools to talk to pupils. The talks can be about Samaritans, or about emotional health. The number for the local branch is below.

Warrington, Halton & St Helen’s Samaritans
Tel. 01925 235000

Schools in Mind is a free network for school leaders, teachers and support staff. The network provides information and resources to enable schools to support the mental health and wellbeing of their pupils, students and staff. By signing up to the network schools can access a range of free mental health and wellbeing resources, events, training and consultations. 

Visit the Schools in Mind webpages

The Stamp Out Stigma campaign aims to put an end to stigma relating to mental health problems and learning disabilities. The campaign’s work focuses on a number of key areas: 

• Enabling people, with lived experience of mental health stigma, to share their stories.
• Myth-busting common misconceptions about mental health conditions.
• Helping schools to raise awareness of mental health and learning disability stigma.

On the schools’ resources page you can download lesson plans for primary schools and secondary schools.

Visit Stamp Out Stigma's webpages

The Young Minds website has a number of pages with free mental health and wellbeing resources for schools. The areas covered on the school resources' pages include:

• Mentally healthy schools
• 360 degree school community
• Transitioning from primary to secondary school
• The wellbeing of school staff and parents
• Academic resilience

Visit Young Minds pages for schools

World Mental Health Day 2022 - #HelloYellow
#HelloYellow is back! And it's never been more important. This World Mental Health Day, thousands across the country are coming together to say #HelloYellow. Join us on 10 October to show young people that how they feel matters and help create a future where all young people get the mental health support they need, when they need it, no matter what. To take part, simply wear yellow, donate what you can to YoungMinds, and post a photo on social media (don't forget to tag @YoungMindsUK).

For more infomation visit the Young Minds #HelloYellow page

CBT-based worksheets, can be downloaded free from this site, some are designed for children and young people. Living Life to the Full offers online, life-skills courses which aim to help people manage issues such as stress, worry or low mood. The courses are free for adults, but there is a charge for the young people's courses.

Visit LLTTF’s website

PAPYRUS’ website has a Help and Advice Resources page. The aim of the resources is to help young people who might be thinking of suicide, stay safe. There are also resources for those supporting young people. The downloads include: a safety plan, details of how to create a hope box, suggested distraction techniques and tips on how to start a conversation about suicide. A range of leaflets about PAPYRUS' service and issues young people might be experiencing, can also be downloaded free, from the resources page.

Visit PAPYRUS' resources page

This site has clear, non-medical information for parents, carers and young people on a wide range of issues including:

• Different mental health diagnoses
• Experiences and life events which can impact on mental health
• Good parenting

The information can be printed from the site, or bought as leaflets.

Visit the RCPsych's website

The Schools in Mind webpages have leaflets and booklets for children and young people, parents, carers and teachers. The publications can be downloaded free and include the following:

• Talking mental health with a young person (for parents and carers)
• Supporting staff wellbeing in schools
• Supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools
• Tools for measuring wellbeing in primary and secondary schools and in colleges

Visit the Schools in Mind webpages

The resources section on the Young Minds site has a page with booklets and leaflets relating to children and young people's mental health. These publications can be downloaded free, or bought as hard copies. The booklets and leaflets cover a wide range of issues including coping with pressure at school, anger, self-harm, eating disorders, depression and bullying. Some of the publications are written for children or young people, some are written for adults.

Visit Young Minds' publications page

This national mental health campaign is aimed at:

• young people aged 13 to 18
• parents/carers of children and young people aged 5 to18

The Better Health campaign aims to:

• Help people protect and improve children and young people’s mental wellbeing.
• Build children and young people's resilience to help them cope with the mental health challenges COVID-19 brings.
• Provide support for children and young people at greater risk of poor mental health.

The campaign was developed by Public Health England and is approved by the NHS.

There's a range of free resources to help you promote the campaign. These include:

• social media resources 
• a communications toolkit
• a PR film
• a radio advert

You can download the resources from PHE's Campaign Resource Centre.