Mental Health of Children and Young People

General support and resources:

• Sunderland :: South Tyneside and Sunderland Mental Health Services - Sunderland Community Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service is a team of professionals who offer assessment and treatment to  children and young people around their emotional wellbeing, aged 0-18 years old . The service consists of a multidisciplinary team of mental health practitioners including, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, health visitors, teachers, early years  workers, children’s wellbeing practitioners, and counsellors all with additional child and adolescent mental health training. This includes both low intensity and high intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Systemic Family Therapy and Person-Centred Counselling.                                                                                            The service has 3 locality bases across Sunderland, Washington and the Coalfield’s.  Families will be seen at the closest venue to where they live.  The service will also see children and young people and their families at other locations such as GP surgeries and schools. Any professional can refer into the service
• Understanding Young Minds
• Child Mental Health: Recognising and responding to issues - NSPCC
• Mind Your Words - Free eLearning designed to support those working with children and young people with mental health needs.
• Hub of Hope - The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database. It is provided by national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, and brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place for the first time.
• Kooth - 
• R;pple - R;pple is a browser tool which aims to minimise the risks of the internet, while harnessing its potential for good. R;pple is an interceptive tool designed to present a visual prompt when a person searches for harmful keywords or phrase relating to the topic of self-harm or suicide. These phrases include any words or terminology which had been identified as displaying potentially damaging online content. The tool discretely intercepts harmful searches and provides signposting to 24/7, free mental health support at a time when individuals are most vulnerable.
• We all feel it - The NSPCC has launched a new Childline campaign ‘We All Feel It’, which supports young people, particularly males, struggling to reach out for mental health support.  

Trauma and ACES:

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
• Adverse Childhood Experiences - UCLAN Online Resources - An in-depth glossary of resources available on ACES and Trauma
• How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime - Ted Talk by Nadine Burke Harris

Covid-19:

• Coronavirus - Experiences of vulnerable children, young people and parents: Research -This report presents findings from qualitative research conducted with a range of children, young people and parents in vulnerable or seldom heard groups, carried out to explore their lived experiences during and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Suicide Awareness and Prevention:

• Suicide Awareness

Bereavement Support:

• Washington MIND – ‘We provide bereavement counselling for young people aged 11+yrs , and if appropriate would be happy to speak with the young people you mention, or their family, regarding how to arrange this. As a loose guide we would usually offer counselling from around 3 months following a bereavement. We also sometimes offer what we call a 'normalising' appointment (horrible term which we don't use with families), to support young people to understand how they are feeling within the context of normal grief. We are currently working with 4 local secondary schools to co-produce materials and model of good practice based on the continuing bonds research.’