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Useful Links…

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If you are in immediate danger, or life is at risk then please call 999 immediately.

Advice & General Information

  • Healthy Sandwell – Helping you to find the support you need
  • Holiday Activities in Sandwell (HAF) – Sandwell’s activity offer during school holidays
  • Go Play Sandwell – Sandwell’s Play Service, offering free play sessions for children aged 6-12 (or up to 16 with SEND)
  • Find A Helpline – All of the nationwide helplines for you to get support from
  • Childline – Free confidential service to help young people under 19 with any issue they are going through
  • Runaway Helpline – Information, help, and support and options for young people thinking of running away or already away
  • The MIX – The Mix’s Crisis Messenger text service is available 24/7 and open to anyone aged 25 or under living in the UK
  • Citizens Advice – General information for young people including employment, housing, family matters, money, benefits, health, the law, travel and transport
  • Health for Teens – The school nursing website in Sandwell
  • BBC’s Guide –  to feeling bored, flat and unmotivated. Click here to get some things that can help
  • Finding Support Online – An online index of advice pages and signposting
  • Sandwell Family Life – An online index of services supporting young people and families to get the best from life
  • Route2Wellbeing – Help with finding health & wellbeing services near you
  • Sandwell HAF (Holiday Activity and Food Programme) – Discover Holiday Activities Near You
  • SCVO – Information on voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in Sandwell
  • Lets Go Sandwell – The home of all volunteering opportunities in Sandwell
  • Visit Sandwell – Things to see and do in Sandwell

Alcohol & Drugs

  • Al-Anon – Support for the families and friends of alcoholics
  • Alateen – Support for teenage relatives and friends of alcoholics
  • DECCA – Drug and Alcohol support for young people in Sandwell
  • Cranstoun – Drug and Alcohol support for adults in Sandwell
  • Smoke Free Sandwell – Support people aged 12 and over who want help to quit smoking through a 12-week stop smoking programme of behavioural support and medication, including all forms of nicotine replacement including patches, lozenges, gums, etc and vapes
  • Aquarius – Support people 16 years and over affected by gambling, either their own or the gambling of a family member, partner or friend through 1:1 and group support sessions
  • Talk to Frank – Honest information about drugs
  • Health for Teens – The school nursing website in Sandwell
  • We are with you – Free, confidential support with alcohol, drugs or mental health from one of our local services or online

Bereavement

  • Edward’s Trust – Supporting children, young people and families facing loss and surviving bereavement
  • Winston’s Wish – Support for grieving children and families
  • Cruse Bereavement Care – Provides support and information to children, young people and adults when someone dies
  • Hope Again – Set up for young people by young people to share their experiences of dealing with the loss of a loved one
  • Child Bereavement Network – The hub for supporting bereaved children & young people
  • Health for Teens – The school nursing website in Sandwell

Bullying

Cancer

  • SWBHT Cancer Hotline – offering advice for Sandwell residents who are worried they may have symptoms of cancer

Coronavirus

  • Every Mind Matters – Advice on how to transition back to school or college after Covid-19
  • Student Space – Help & Guidance for students through coronavirus
  • The Mix – Support for young people returning to university after lockdown
  • For help and support with mental health, click here
  • For more information regarding Covid-19, please click here

Cost of Living Support

Crime & Youth Justice

  • Youth Justice Legal Centre – Information and support for children and young people who may find themselves involved in the criminal justice system
  • Just for Kids Law – Provides advocacy, legal support and assistance to young people in difficulty; particularly those in trouble with the law, looked after children and those at risk of exclusion from school
  • Victim Support – Free and confidential support and information to help people cope with the effects of crime
  • Crime Stoppers – An online service to report if a crime has taken place
  • Citizens Advice – General information for young people including employment, housing, family matters, money, benefits, health, the law, travel and transport
  • See more advice about Crime & The Law here!
  • Emergency Services – Call 999 immediately if there is any risk to life 

domestic violence & abuse

  • Black Country Women’s Aid – Supporting survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence
  • 24 – Hour National Domestic Violence -A national service for women experiencing domestic violence, their family, friends, colleagues and others calling on their behalf
  • Rights of Women – Information and support on a wide range of legal issues including violence against women, family and criminal law and asylum and immigration
  • REFUGE – Information and advice on violence against teenage girls and young women
  • RESPECT – Free advice and support for men experiencing domestic violence and abuse
  • Everyone’s Invited – A movement committed to eradicating rape culture
  • Health for Teens – The school nursing website in Sandwell
  • Barnados – Support for victims of sexual abuse and exploitation
  • NSPCC – Helping children move on after abuse
  • St Giles – Helping children living through adverse experiences
  • The UK Government’s Stop Abuse Together campaign – a new advice and support site to help keep you and other children and young people in your life safe from sexual abuse
  • We Matter – Victim Support’s video-based digital service for children and young people who have been affected by domestic abuse

DRUGS

Eating Disorders

  • BEAT – Support for eating disorders
  • Health for Teens – The school nursing website in Sandwell

Education & Employment

EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS

  • Equality Advisory Support Service – Information and support on issues relating to equality and human rights
  • Child Law Advice Service – Specialist advice and information on child, family and education law including a charged call back advice service
  • Lawstuff – Information specifically aimed at young people covering a wide range of topics including education, crime and the police, children’s rights and leaving home
  • Migrant Children’s Project – Help and support for migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children in the UK.
  • Make Our Rights Reality – A movement of young people demanding our rights, coordinated by Youth Access – a charity working for the rights of every young person to be able to get support when and where they need it
  • Know Your Rights – Sandwell Children’s Trust’s Guide to Children & Young People’s Rights
  • Citizens Advice – General information for young people including employment, housing, family matters, money, benefits, health, the law, travel and transport

Gambling

  • Big Deal – Support and information about gambling
  • St Giles – Helping children living through adverse experiences

Housing & Homelessness

  • Shelter – Information and advice for young people on any housing related problems
  • St Giles – Helping children living through adverse experiences
  • Citizens Advice – General information for young people including employment, housing, family matters, money, benefits, health, the law, travel and transport

LGBTQ+

  • Stone Wall – Online information service providing details on lesbian, gay, bi and trans rights and issues affecting LGBT people
  • Switchboard -Information, support and referral service for lesbians, gay men and bisexual and trans people – and anyone considering issues around their sexuality and/or gender identity
  • Educational Action Challenging Homophobia – Help and support for children & young people experiencing homophobic, biphobic or transphobic bullying or harassment
  • The Proud Trust – The home of LGBT+ Youth
  • Mermaids – Helping gender – diverse children and young people
  • Hate Crime Reporting Centres

Looked After Children & Young People

  • Sandwell Children’s Trust
  • Safety Net – The NYAS ‘Safety Net’ helpline service will continue the national provision of: Helpline advice and support, signposting to local services, issue-based advocacy, specialist non-instructed advocacy, advocacy finder service, self-advocacy information. The service accepts referrals from children and young people, professionals working with young people, friends, families, and carers. The service will be available to: children in care and care leavers up to age 25 and children and young people needing support from children’s services, including those on child in need plans, child protection plans, or who are 16-17 years old and homeless.
  • National Youth Advocacy Service – Provides information, advice, advocacy and legal representation to children and young people

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Medical Needs

Money & Debt

  • Step Change – Information and advice for dealing with debt
  • The Money Advice Service – Information, help and support on all aspects of money advice
  • National Debt Line – Information and support for dealing with debt and money issues
  • St Giles – Helping children living through adverse experiences
  • Citizens Advice – General information for young people including employment, housing, family matters, money, benefits, health, the law, travel and transport

Online

Physical Activity

Relationships

safeguarding

Sandwell Services

SELF – HARM

  • Self-Injury Support – A national organisation that supports girls and women affected by self-injury or self-harm
  • National Self – Harm Network – An online forum providing crisis, support, information, advice and resources for people who self-harm and their family and carers
  • Health for Teens – The school nursing website in Sandwell
  • Papyrus – Prevention of young suicides

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Social Media

transition from primary school to secondary school

  • Anna Freud Supporting children transitioning from primary school to secondary school

Victim Support

Water Safety

Young Carers

  • Sandwell Young Carers
  • Babble – Young carers community. Offers information and support. Includes advice for coping with feelings and links to organisations that may be helpful
  • Carers Trust – Information, advice, discussion and support for carers
  • Carers UK – Information advice and support for people who need help looking after a friend or family member

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