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Virtual health support and advice for

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young people.

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Families Information | Supporting Children and Young People with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Needs

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Families Information | Supporting Children and Young People with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Needs

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Families Information | Supporting Children and Young People with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Needs

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It is everyone's responsibility to meet the needs of children and young people with SEMH. The SEND Code of Practice and the Equality Act 2010, say that schools and settings must make reasonable adjustments for children and young people with SEMH.

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The Stay Alive app is a pioneering, award-winning suicide prevention app created by Grassroots Suicide Prevention. It can be used by individuals navigating suicidal crises or experiencing suicidal ideation, or by those concerned about someone. Additionally, it can be used as a professional resource, aiding in the support and management of individuals at risk of suicide. Stay Alive can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for smartphones and tablets. The web version functions like a website and can be accessed from smartphones, tablets and desktop or laptop computers. 

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The Stay Alive app by Grassroots Suicide Prevention - Grassroots Suicide Prevention

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Find out more about our pioneering suicide prevention app. Read about the research behind our award-winning work, the impact it has had on the at-risk community and how to get involved in support, campaigns and development. Read More…

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Calm Harm is an award-winning app funded by teenage mental health charity stem4, to help manage the urge to self-harm. It was developed by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause MBE, in collaboration with young people and uses principles from an evidence-based psychological treatment called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).

The urge to self-harm is like a wave. It feels the most powerful when you start wanting to do it.

Learn to ride the wave with the Calm Harm app by choosing activities from these categories:
Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, Release, and Random.

There is also a breathing exercise to help you be mindful and stay in the moment, regulate difficult emotions, and reduce tension.

When you ride the wave, the urge to self-harm will fade.

The Calm Harm app provides some immediate activities and techniques to help you break the cycle of self-harm behaviour and explore underlying trigger factors; the app supports you in building a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviours, and access to supportive people, as well as providing the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. The Calm Harm app also signposts to help.

The app is private, anonymous, and safe.

Please note that the Calm Harm app is not a substitute for the assessment and individualised treatment by a health or mental health professional.

Our app is for young people over the age of 13.

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Calm Harm is an award-winning app funded by teenage mental health charity stem4, to help manage the urge to self-harm. It was developed by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Nihara Krause MBE, in collaboration with young people and uses principles from an evidence-based psychological treatment called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).

The urge to self-harm is like a wave. It feels the most powerful when you start wanting to do it.

Learn to ride the wave with the Calm Harm app by choosing activities from these categories:
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There is also a breathing exercise to help you be mindful and stay in the moment, regulate difficult emotions, and reduce tension.

When you ride the wave, the urge to self-harm will fade.

The Calm Harm app provides some immediate activities and techniques to help you break the cycle of self-harm behaviour and explore underlying trigger factors; the app supports you in building a 'safety net' of helpful thoughts, behaviours, and access to supportive people, as well as providing the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. The Calm Harm app also signposts to help.

The app is private, anonymous, and safe.

Please note that the Calm Harm app is not a substitute for the assessment and individualised treatment by a health or mental health professional.

Our app is for young people over the age of 13.

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Calm Harm is a free app to help teenagers manage the urge to self-harm. Available on Google Play & App Store.

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Shout 85258 free and confidential text support service is there for moments when you are dealing with self-harm and need support to get to a calmer place.

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Shout 85258 free and confidential text support service is there for moments when you are dealing with self-harm and need support to get to a calmer place.

If your life is at imminent risk, please call 999 immediately.

What is self-harm?

Self-harm is when someone deliberately hurts or injures their body, without the intent to die. In general, it is a way of coping or dealing with severe emotional distress and managing distressing and unwanted thoughts and overwhelming feelings.

Self-harm can translate emotional pain into physical pain, which people sometimes find easier to cope with.

It's always important to bear in mind that some people who self harm can also feel suicidal and it must always be taken seriously.

If you are self-harming, you might not have felt able to talk to anyone about what you are going through, and it can feel very hard to ask for help. Asking for support is the first courageous step in finding alternative and healthier ways to manage painful feelings.

What are some of the reasons someone might self-harm?

Focus, distraction or control: wanting to distract themselves or regain control over their minds when experiencing overwhelming thoughts or feelings.

Tension or release of anger

Physical sensation: wanting to feel something physical when you are feeling numb.

Expression or documentation: wanting to express themselves or document strong emotions that they are feeling but cannot articulate. This can often also mean that the individual may want to see the physical evidence of their pain: blood, scabs and scars.

Punishment

Euphoria

Support for self-harm:

There are a number of strategies that can help ward off urges to self-harm and whilst these won't address the underlying problem, they are hugely important in the journey towards safer means of expressing feelings.

Communicate:

Talking to someone about self-harm can help relieve difficult feelings and reduce the urge to hurt yourself.

Text SHOUT to 85258 to start an anonymous, free conversation with a trained volunteer who will listen to and support you.

Talk to someone about what is triggering you to self-harm or about anything that's on your mind.

There are a number of ideas you can try to distract yourself from urges to self-harm.

Get some play-dough or blu-tack: stretch or squeeze it to relieve tension.

Hold ice in your hand - the intense feeling can be a helpful distraction.

Use a pillow or cushion to vent your anger and frustration.

Listen to music you like or watch a film you enjoy.

Scribble on a large piece of paper with a crayon or pen.

Go for a walk to take yourself away from your triggers - being in the open air can be a distraction in itself too.

Listen to music or immerse yourself in Netflix or a game on your phone.

Sometimes leaning in to your problem can help you to be less afraid of it. Allow yourself to experience the thought or feeling and express it by trying the following:

Use plasticine, crayons, pens, paint or collage materials to make artwork to express your feelings. Creativity helps us to see things from a different perspective.

Write down thoughts and feelings that are distressing you on a piece of paper; crumple the page up, rip it up and throw it out as a way to rid yourself of those thoughts and feelings.

Use mindfulness or meditation apps to relax your mind and body.

If you need help with self-harm, our text line is available 24/7. Text SHOUT to 85258 to start a conversation with one of our volunteers.

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The free Shout 85258 text support service is there for moments when you are dealing with self-harm and need support to get to a calmer place. If your life is at imminent risk, please call 999 immediately.

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Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)

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We're the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and we're uniting the UK against suicide.

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The Mix - essential support for under 25's

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The Mix - essential support for under 25's

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Support including:

Grounding techniques

Connections between anxiety and loneliness

Coping with war anxiety

Coping with eco-anxiety

What is anxiety

Social anxiety

And much more

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Welcome to The Mix, a support service for young people. There are loads of ways you can get support from us, including our articles, videos, helpline, counselling, forums, apps and more. To find which service suits your needs use the drop down menu below.

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24/7 support service for children and young people.

Services Include:

·       Free confidential counselling via phone, webchat & email

·       Mental health advice, articles & self-help tools

·       Childline App for ongoing support

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On Thursday 30 November from 2:30am - 7:30am, you won't be able to contact Childline whilst we do some important maintenance to our systems. This means that 1-2-1 chats, calling and messages to Childline will be unavailable. You'll still be able to use the Childline website for advice and information.

If you're in danger or it's an emergency, you should always call 999

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Get help and advice about a wide range of issues, call us on 0800 1111, talk to a counsellor online, send Childline an email or post on the message boards.

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Resources and online support for children, young people, families, and professionals.

Topics Covered:

Anxiety, ADHD, Autism, Self-Harm, Gender & Sexuality, Resilience, and more

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Welcome to the Healthy Young Minds website. Here you can find lots of advice, guidance and support related to children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.

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💡 Key areas: Anxiety, Relaxation, Mental Focus

Free app teaching meditation with guided sessions by trained facilitators.

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A wellbeing app with exercises and tools to manage anxiety, depression, and low mood.

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An app to help you manage down anxiety, depression and loneliness. Join our wellbeing community

SAM is a non-profit, community-backed wellbeing app to help you monitor and manage your mental health, with self-help techniques to help with anxiety, depression, loneliness and coping. SAM is informed by clinical best practice and academic research.

SAM provides a range of self-help techniques organised into several main wellbeing themes, together with tools for recording and monitoring changes in your mood. The social cloud feature allows users to give and receive support from others.

SAM was developed by a team of researchers from the University of the West of England working with Bristol-based digital studio MyOxygen. The development was based on clinical evidence and followed a user-centred design process to successfully deliver a mobile app that helps you to:

Monitor your feelings and chart mood levels over time.

Discover guided self-help techniques including games and multimedia for challenging unhelpful thoughts.

Share advice and ratings with the SAM community through the Social Cloud.

SAM is currently unfunded and ad-free for all users.

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A mental health and wellbeing app for self management of anxiety, depression, loneliness and coping. Monitor your mood, practice coping methods and find peer support from the community of users

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Evidence-based app to reduce urges to self-harm, including mood diary and calming tools.

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BlueIce is a prescribed evidence-based app to help young people manage their emotions and to reduce urges to self-harm.

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

BlueIce was developed by Dr Paul Stallard, a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Child and Family Mental Health at the University of Bath and co-produced by young people with a lived experience of self-harm.

Blue Ice is available for iOS and Android.

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BlueIce app | Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Audio tracks for 10–15-year-olds focusing on relaxation, self-esteem, sleep, and exam stress.

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Let us know how you found this resource or service, but please note that this feature is not monitored regularly, and it's not a way to get help or speak to someone.

For information about urgent help, please visit our crisis support page.

We may include your comments on this page, but we will not share your name unless you ask us to.

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An app offering Positive Mental Training audio programmes for 10 to 15-year-olds to develop self-esteem, resilience & goal-focused motivation.

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Kooth is free to access via any internet-connected tablet, computer or smartphone. There are no waiting lists or thresholds to meet and a referral from a medical professional is not needed. Your child can join Kooth anonymously simply by visiting www.kooth.com.

Kooth offers young people a range and choice of support options under one digital roof.

It has services that are accessible 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This includes one to one text based sessions with experienced counsellors and wellbeing practitioners run from midday to 10pm on weekdays, and from 6 -10pm at the weekend. Appointments can be booked in advance or accessed via a drop-in text-based chat. Kooth also provides a fully safeguarded and pre-moderated community with a library of peer and professional created articles. And there are discussion forums too. All content is pre-moderated and age appropriate.

Kooth covers many topics on the website including relationships, LGBTQIIA+, exam stress, anxiety, eating difficulties, self harm, suicidal thoughts, body image, social media, bullying and family worries. All of these subjects affecting young peoples’ mental health are presenting issues that Kooth and other mental health providers see from all age groups. Kooth is commissioned by the NHS and clinically approved for children from the age of 10, and is the only digital mental health provider to hold a BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) accreditation across the Country.

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We’re the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people's mental health.
YoungMinds offers support, training and resources for children, young people, parent/carers and services.

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YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People

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YoungMinds are a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents, making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need.

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Westmorland and Furness - SEND All About Me My Personal Profile

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Westmorland and Furness - SEND All About Me My Personal Profile

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - All About Me Profile Guide

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - All About Me Profile Guide

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A guide to understand the "all about me" profile

What is an "all about me" personal profile?

How will a personal profile help?

What does a personal profile include?

When or how can a child use it?

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - How Can I Help document

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - How Can I Help document

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This guide aims to give a few helpful pointers to ensure that your setting, service or activity is as inclusive and accessible as possible for those children and young people with social, emotional mental health needs.

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Families Information | Take a look at your new SEND Local Offer and Families Information Websites

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Families Information | Take a look at your new SEND Local Offer and Families Information Websites

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Cumbria's Local Offer aims to provide information to parents/carers and young people about provision expected to be available across education, health and social care for children and young people in their area who have SEN or are disabled, including those who do not have Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan.

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Features

Due to the Local Government Reorganisation (LGR), Cumbria's SEND Local Offer, Families Information and Adult Support Directories have been replaced by 2 new ones. Please choose one of the tiles below:

Related Articles

Confused and don't know which website to visit?

Don't worry! We are here to help.

You can either call us on: 07766 133 865, or email: FID@cumberland.gov.uk

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Families Information | Take a look at your new SEND Local Offer and Families Information Websites

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Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Pathway Poster

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Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Pathway Poster

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Please print this poster and display it somewhere that everyone can see.

This is a quick way to be able to signpost to the right service depending on the level of need.

Using this guide could reduce referrals into the wrong service and support the right service being accessed at the right time.

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Emotional health, Wellbeing & Mental Health Training Hub — For Staff in Schools and Services Supporting Children and Young People in Westmorland & Furness

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Emotional health, Wellbeing & Mental Health Training Hub — For Staff in Schools and Services Supporting Children and Young People in Westmorland & Furness

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Health and Wellbeing

Mental Health First Aid and Awareness

Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm

Anxiety and EBSA

Neurodiversity and Autism

Trauma-Informed Practice and Attachment

National Digital Training

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PMHW Mental Health Drop-in (ParentCarers)

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PMHW Mental Health Drop-in (ParentCarers)

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Westmorland and Furness Safeguarding Children Partnership

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Westmorland and Furness Safeguarding Children Partnership

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Find information and support for children, young people and families on staying safe, recognising abuse, understanding rights, getting help and being safe online.

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Learn how to report concerns about a child, access referral procedures and forms and find guidance, for both the public and professionals, on contacting the appropriate safeguarding services in urgent or non-urgent situations.

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Find a range of useful information to guide and support families in Westmorland and Furness. Find the Family Hub team in Barrow Library with activities across Barrow-in-Furness.

Activities, advice and support for parents on the following topics:

Pregnancy

Start for Life - Birth to 2 years old

Early Years - 2 - 4 years old

Primary - 4 to 11 years old

Secondary and teen - 11 + years

SEND - Birth to 25 years old

The Family Hub run sessions including:

Homework and wellbeing club for young people aged 11 - 16

Trying new foods drop-in session

Young parents chill and chat

Baby massage

Baby Buddies groups

Terrific Toddlers sessions

And more......

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Family Hubs provide a welcoming space for families and the wider community in Westmorland and Furness. You can find your Family Hub in Barrow at Barrow Library.

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Upcoming parent/carer course “Understanding Emotional Based School Avoidance and Your Young Person”.

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Upcoming parent/carer course “Understanding Emotional Based School Avoidance and Your Young Person”.

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Please feel free to pass this information on to others who are supporting families with an Early Help where EBSA is identified.

Also, please find attached a document with further information about the ways I can offer support to Schools, other professionals, parents/carers and young people.

Course details:

• Format: Delivered online via Microsoft Teams

• Dates: Every Tuesdays for four weeks, starting 23rd September 2025

• Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

• Eligibility: Parents/carers of children or young people who are struggling with EBSA and currently have an open Early Help assessment

The programme is designed to help parents and carers:

• Build understanding of EBSA and its impact

• Learn strategies to support their child

• Explore pathways to support in education and other services

• Connect with other parents for peer support

If you are working with a family who meets the criteria and would benefit from attending, please:

1. Seek the parent/carer’s consent to share their contact details with me.

2. Once consent is given, email me their name and email address, and I will send them further information and a registration link directly.

If you would like more information about the programme or have any questions, please do get in touch.

Kind regards,

John Harrington

Early Help Officer SEMH | Children and Families

Westmorland and Furness Council

4th Floor Craven House | Michaelson Road | Barrow in Furness | Cumbria

M: 07824 551352

E: john.harrington@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

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Early Help Officer for Social Emotional and Mental Support Offer 2025

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Early Help Officer for Social Emotional and Mental Support Offer 2025

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The role of an Early Help Officer for Social, Emotional Mental Health.

Support for professionals

Support for Parents/Carers

Support for Young People

Contact details

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South Cumbria Mental Health Champions Network Community Noticeboard

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South Cumbria Mental Health Champions Network Community Noticeboard

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This noticeboard highlights the amazing work the South Cumbria Mental Health champions network does. Promoting the Barnardo's services and teams, highlighting local and national support services, upcoming events and a chance to promote all things mental health.

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Mental Health Awareness Week - Support for loneliness

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Mental Health Awareness Week - Support for loneliness

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Set of resources developed by the Barnardos PMHS South Cumbria Team, designed to support children and young people tackle loneliness.

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Children and Young People's Self Harm Pathway

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Children and Young People's Self Harm Pathway

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A guide to help you decide who to ask for help to choose the right support and service

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Key areas: Early Help, Family Support, Multi-Agency Working

Family Help is the response made when a professional identifies unmet needs with a child or family, and works in collaboration with families, networks and other

agencies to meet those needs at the earliest opportunity.

An Early Help Assessment (EHA) which should be completed with the child and family.

Tel: 0300 373 2723

Email: family.help.waf@cumbria.gov.uk

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Early help and early intervention are types of support to: improve outcomes for children and young people, or prevent increasing need or risk. Working Together describes Early Help as: ’Support for children of all ages that improves a family’s resilience and outcomes or reduces the chance…

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Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health - A Schools Guide

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Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health - A Schools Guide

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A school based set of resources to support children and young peoples emotional wellbeing and mental health with key topics including:

Anxiety

Self-harm

Exam stress and more..

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Set of resources for the following topics:

Engaging parents and carers to support children and young peoples emotional wellbeing and mental health.

Support for children and young people transitioning into school from early years settings/primary to secondary schools and out of education.

Self-harm, suicide awareness and bereavement.

Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)

Anxious Children support

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Please contact the hub and access the webpage to see what session and support them currently have on offer to support children, young people and families.

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Family Hubs provide a welcoming space for families and the wider community in Westmorland and Furness. You can find your Family Hub in Barrow at Barrow Library.

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Book here

KoothTalks Families

Free webinars helping parents navigate their child's mental health worries

The role of Kooth in the care pathway for young people with an eating difficulty.

Inform parents and carers on how our digital platforms can support young people with eating difficulties in this 30 minute webinar.

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The Good- Night Guide for Children is an advice booklet to help parents deal with sleep difficulties in children.

The Good- Night Guide for Children is an advice booklet to help parents deal with sleep difficulties in children.

The Sleep Council

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Advice for parents and carers: talking mental health with children at secondary school

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Advice for parents and carers: talking mental health with children at secondary school

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A leaflet for secondary schools to share with parents and carers, offering top tips for speaking to young people about mental health.

This leaflet developed by Anna Freud's child mental health experts and featuring an introduction from Anna Freud's Chief Executive, Professor Peter Fonagy, provides simple advice and guidance to parents and carers about how to make conversations about their child's feelings part of everyday conversation.

The teenage years are both exciting and challenging to parents and carers. It can be hard to know whether your child's feelings and behaviour are normal or becoming a problem.

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Advice for parents and carers: talking mental health with children at primary school

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Advice for parents and carers: talking mental health with children at primary school

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A tip sheet for parents and carers sharing advice on talking about mental health with primary school children.

This leaflet which was created alongside the Talking Mental Health Animation & Toolkit features an introduction from our Patron, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales who supported the You're never too young to talk mental health campaign stating the campaign's resources "demonstrate how we can help children express their feelings, respond appropriately, and prevent small problems from snowballing into bigger ones."

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Families Information | Family Information Service

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Families Information | Family Information Service

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Providing information and advice on childcare, activities, entitlements and services for families with children aged 0 to 19 years (or 25 years if the young person has a disability or additional need) in Wesmorland and Furness.

Contact them at fis@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk or on 07785 456 983.

If you suspect a child or young person is at risk of significant harm by abuse or neglect, report this immediately. Call the Cumbria Safeguarding Children's Partnership on 0300 373 2724.

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Families Information | Family Information Service

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Providing information and advice on childcare, activities, entitlements and services for families with children aged 0 to 19 years (or 25 years if the young person has a disability or additional need) in Wesmorland and Furness. Contact them at fis@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk or on 07785 456 983. If you suspect…

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Westmorland and Furness - SEND All About Me My Personal Profile

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Westmorland and Furness - SEND All About Me My Personal Profile

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - All About Me Profile Guide

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - All About Me Profile Guide

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A guide to understand the "all about me" profile

What is an "all about me" personal profile?

How will a personal profile help?

What does a personal profile include?

When or how can a child use it?

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - How Can I Help document

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Westmorland and Furness - Social Emotional Mental Health - How Can I Help document

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This guide aims to give a few helpful pointers to ensure that your setting, service or activity is as inclusive and accessible as possible for those children and young people with social, emotional mental health needs.

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Find a range of useful information to guide and support families in Westmorland and Furness. Find the Family Hub team in Barrow Library with activities across Barrow-in-Furness.

Activities, advice and support for parents on the following topics:

Pregnancy

Start for Life - Birth to 2 years old

Early Years - 2 - 4 years old

Primary - 4 to 11 years old

Secondary and teen - 11 + years

SEND - Birth to 25 years old

The Family Hub run sessions including:

Homework and wellbeing club for young people aged 11 - 16

Trying new foods drop-in session

Young parents chill and chat

Baby massage

Baby Buddies groups

Terrific Toddlers sessions

And more......

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Family Hubs provide a welcoming space for families and the wider community in Westmorland and Furness. You can find your Family Hub in Barrow at Barrow Library.

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Individually tailored grants of up to £2,400 for children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their wellbeing and educational engagement.

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Individually tailored grants of up to £2,400 for children and young people who have experienced a crisis that has recently had a significant and enduring impact on their wellbeing and educational engagement.

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A Fairer start Toolkit for Professionals and Families

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A Fairer start Toolkit for Professionals and Families

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The following weblinks have been gathered as a resource to consider sources of support

for children and families who may be disadvantaged. The broad areas of support have

been selected following consultation with the sector. Each signposts to website to support

practitioners in the setting also ways to support families outside of the setting

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Solihull Parenting website for schools, parents and children

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Solihull Parenting website for schools, parents and children

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Parents/carers/grandparents/young people etc courses:          CODE: WORDSWORTH​  www.inourplace.co.uk

·         Understanding pregnancy, birth and your baby​

·         Understanding your baby​

·         Understanding your child​

·         Understanding your teenager's brain​

·         Understanding your child’s feelings ​

·         Understanding your child with additional needs​

·         Understanding your relationships​

·         Understanding your brain (for teenagers only!)​

·         Understanding your feelings (for teenagers only!)​

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inourplace | Solihull Approach - Online courses for emotional health and wellbeing.

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inourplace | Solihull Approach : Online courses dedicated to improving emotional health and wellbeing in parents, children, teenagers, adults and grandparents.

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This link will direct you to the Decider Skills website, where you can find videos, resources, and access the FREE app. Many schools and services are using Decider Life Skills to help children and young people enhance their emotional wellbeing and build resilience. By using the app or watching the videos, you can support children and young people with the same skills being used in schools, services, and communities.

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Available free for iOS, Android and Windows devices.

STOPP app can be used to manage impulsivity; from self harm mitigation and suicide prevention to impulsive behaviours like over and under eating, gambling etc.

Between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space lies our power to choose or response. Viktor Frankl

FREE APPS

Download the STOPP App

Download The Decider Skills App

Please not the iOS and Android versions of the app are NOT displaying the videos. Please use the Web app link below (deciderskills.vercel.app) New apps are currently in development.

The STOPP APP - demonstration video
STOPP Skill animated video
STOPP Skill - brief demonstration (no intro)
Webinar - STOPP Skill & the evidence STOPP Skill at Getselfhelp.co.uk
FREE APPS

Download the STOPP App

Download The Decider Skills App
Other resources The Decider Skills for Self Help book available from Amazon The Decider Skills online self help course Videos for everyone Where to find help
Older version of the web app / introduction to the skills available here:
The Decider 12 Life Skills
Web app login

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The STOPP skill is a perfect example of CBT in action - an effective way to achieve a better outcome.

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Health and Wellbeing Coaches - Age 16+_ Support

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Health and Wellbeing Coaches - Age 16+_ Support

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We are a Public Health Team and our priorities are to support the public health agenda and aim to reduce health inequalities through coaching.

Our aim is to support you to improve your overall health and wellbeing.

In order to do this, we want get to know you and what works for you. What are your aspirations and goals? We also want to understand the barriers to achieving these, and the support you draw upon from your personal resources and resources around you. We encourage and coach you to:

Take action on factors that influence your health and wellbeing – including your lifestyle, relationships, interests and home life.

Become more independent and resilient.

Engage with your local communities and social networks

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Explanation of the role of a Primary Mental Health Worker and how to become a mental health champion.

This pathway explains the thrive model and gives clear guidance on what services to access dependent on need

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Every Life Matters suicide Prevention, Self Harm Awareness and Resilience FREE Training Programmes 

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Every Life Matters suicide Prevention, Self Harm Awareness and Resilience FREE Training Programmes 

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Every Life Matters offers a suite training around suicide, self harm and mental health. Course are free to anyone living or working within Cumbria, to book your place please visit out Eventbrite page or alternatively, contact us directly to book an in house session for your organisation training@every-life-matters.org.uk

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Visit Eventbrite for our latest open dates

or find out more about eLearning options

Training enquiries call 07958 419669

Suicide First Aid

Suicide First Aid is a FREE half day online course for PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN SOUTH CUMBRIA which teaches and practices the skills and knowledge needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide and competently intervene to help create suicide-safety as a first aid approach. Booking through Eventbrite. Booking for open courses is through Eventbrite. For in-house sessions or other enquiries training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Safety Planning

This FREE practical and interactive two hour session looks at how to support someone with thoughts of suicide through creating a stepped Safety Plan, helping us manage thoughts of suicide from fleeting ideas to an overwhelming desire to end ones own life. Suitable for anyone who has attended any of our one hour or half day suicide awareness sessions. Booking for open courses is through Eventbrite. For in-house sessions or other enquiriestraining@every-life-matters.org.uk

Emotional Resilience

Emotional resilience is the ability to cope with life's challenges and ups and downs. This FREE half-day Connecting with People course helps you develop an understanding of practical strategies and coping mechanisms to promote wellbeing, whilst improving your own emotional literacy. Booking for open courses is through Eventbrite. For in-house sessions or other enquiries training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Assessing for Suicide in Kids

The one day ASK workshop is the only suicide prevention workshop that specifically addresses suicide risk in children and gives participants developmentally appropriate strategies and tools to identify young children at risk of suicide and quickly gather and organize key details needed to assess risk and inform safety planning. Booking for open courses is through Eventbrite. For in-house sessions or other enquiries training@every-life-matters.org.uk

ASIST

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two day interactive workshop in suicide first aid and more. ASIST teaches participants to recognise when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. For in-house sessions or other enquiries training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Mental Health First Aid

The 2 day Mental Health First Aid ( MHFA) programme teaches people how to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing a mental health issue. Adult or Youth versions available. Available as 2 day MHFA, 1 day Champion, half day MHFA Awareness and MHFA Refresher modules. For in-house sessions or other enquiries training@every-life-matters.org.uk

Suicide Response Pt 1

This half day Connecting with People training is aimed specifically at busy clinicians in a frontline assessment roles in Mental Health services, Primary Care staff, A&E and other pressured environments. Learn to facilitate a safe assessment, triage, and immediate response and SAFETool™ via case-based learning. Develop skills and confidence of instilling hope and co-producing Safety Plans. Delivered in partnership with CNTW NHS Foundation Trust. Contact training@every-life-matters.org.uk to book a session.

Suicide Response Pt 1

This half-day Connecting with People training is aimed specifically at clinicians in a frontline roles across mental health services, primary care and so on. Learn to create a comprehensive, person-centred bio-psychosocial suicide mitigation plan and collaboratively engage in a social support mapping exercise and be able to coproduce a Social Support Maps. Delivered in partnership with CNTW NHS Foundation Trust. Contact training@every-life-matters.org.uk to book a session.

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Suicide Awareness & Prevention Training Courses - Every Life Matters

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Free online training courses to help you gain knowledge, skills and confidence to talk to someone who may be feeling suicidal or socially isolated.

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the thrive model explained - Search Videos

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Cumbria SEND, Information, advice and support service

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Cumbria SEND, Information, advice and support service

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Offering impartial information, advice and support to children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities and their parents and carers.

We hope this site provides you with information you will find useful.

Cumbria SEND IAS Service (which was formerly known as the Parent Partnership Service) offers impartial information, advice and support to children and young people with special educational needs and or disabilities and their parents and carers. This support now includes signposting to health and social care advisory services.

Cumbria SEND IAS Service staff will make sure that parents/carers of all children (0-25 years old) with additional needs have access to information, advice and support. Confidential and impartial support is offered to parents/carers so they can make informed decisions about their child's education.

Generally we can offer information, advice and support around education issues, although we can signpost parents on, with their permission, to other agencies who can help with different problems such as benefit claims.

Your child may have learning difficulties caused by:

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Inspira - Employment support for Young People

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Inspira - Employment support for Young People

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Fancy a career change or looking for work? We can help!

Inspira is a leading employability skills expert, providing FREE professional careers advice and guidance. Over 21,000 people from Cumbria and Lancashire access our services each year.

Inspira can help you move forward with your career. We’ll identify skills, strengths, experience, aspirations, and any areas you may wish to develop. Whatever your goal or aims our friendly expert team of advisers can cover your needs.

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Join Inspira for an inspirational career journey like no other. We have roles available in Cumbria and Lancashire. Read more

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Fancy a career change or looking for work? We can help!

Inspira is a leading employability skills expert, providing FREE professional careers advice and guidance. Over 21,000 people from Cumbria and Lancashire access our services each year.

Inspira can help you move forward with your career. We’ll identify skills, strengths, experience, aspirations, and any areas you may wish to develop. Whatever your goal or aims our friendly expert team of advisors can cover your needs.

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We are Inspira, a leading career management and personal development organisation operating in the North West of England. Our mission is to empower young people and adults with the skills and confidence they need to reach their potential in life and work.

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The foundation of your baby's social and emotional wellbeing begins during pregnancy and continues throughout your baby’s first 1001 days of life. Amazingly, it is the special parent-infant relationship, or parent-infant bond, that you build together which is crucial to your baby's developing mind.

​This remarkable bond, also known as attachment, creates new brain connections. These connections enable your baby to become social and emotionally resilient throughout life. It's important that you feel emotionally prepared to nurture your baby psychologically to enable the relationship to form.

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Good Enough Start's core purpose is to empower all parents to create a secure parent-infant relationship. Specialist trained Practitioners will provide support in the community for all.

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supporting Parent-Infant Relationships

Welcome to our award-winning universal service. Our professional and friendly team champions the important parent-infant relationship. Practitioners offer sensitive support to empower every parent to recognise and meet their baby's emotional needs.

A GOOD ENOUGH START IN LIFE

supports Parent-Infant Mental Health

WHO WE ARE

Good Enough Start has been collaboratively developed by:

Partnership of Millom Schools, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 0-19 Services and Howgill Family Centre: Registered Charity No. 519278. Private Company Limited by Guarantee No. 0204563.

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The pilot service is fully funded until October 2022 thanks to:

Copeland Community Fund, Sellafield Ltd., Francis C Scott Trust and Cumbria Community Foundation.

NEWS

The High Sheriff of Cumbria 2021, Julie Barton, congratulated Good Enough Start, 'Your organisation stood out for its excellent work and I am very pleased to inform you that the Good Enough Start Project is among a small number of charities across Cumbria whom I have selected to receive a High Sheriff Award this year.' We also received £500 which will fund a printed information booklet - coming soon. Well done team!

After launching our new service during the pandemic we had to adapt to lockdown restrictions so we are pleased to announce our full universal preventative service has begun. We're delighted to offer the full range of support from universal to 1:1 therapeutic support empowering parents to support their baby's emotional needs and strengthen the parent-infant relationship.

'Francis C Scott Trust, one of our funders, has named Janice Brockbank and Brenda Howgill as joint recipients of the 2022 Peter Scott Award for Outstanding Contribution to Charity with special regard to their joint work on the Good Enough Start project' Very welcome news to promote Good Enough Start - thank you!

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supporting Parent-Infant Relationships Welcome to our award-winning universal service. Our professional and friendly team champions the important parent-infant relationship. Practitioners offer sensitive support to empower every parent to recognise and meet their baby's emotional needs.

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This link will direct you to the Decider Skills website, where you can find videos, resources, and access the FREE app. Many schools and services are using Decider Life Skills to help children and young people enhance their emotional wellbeing and build resilience. By using the app or watching the videos, you can support children and young people with the same skills being used in schools, services, and communities.

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Available free for iOS, Android and Windows devices.

STOPP app can be used to manage impulsivity; from self harm mitigation and suicide prevention to impulsive behaviours like over and under eating, gambling etc.

Between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space lies our power to choose or response. Viktor Frankl

FREE APPS

Download the STOPP App

Download The Decider Skills App

Please not the iOS and Android versions of the app are NOT displaying the videos. Please use the Web app link below (deciderskills.vercel.app) New apps are currently in development.

The STOPP APP - demonstration video
STOPP Skill animated video
STOPP Skill - brief demonstration (no intro)
Webinar - STOPP Skill & the evidence STOPP Skill at Getselfhelp.co.uk
FREE APPS

Download the STOPP App

Download The Decider Skills App
Other resources The Decider Skills for Self Help book available from Amazon The Decider Skills online self help course Videos for everyone Where to find help
Older version of the web app / introduction to the skills available here:
The Decider 12 Life Skills
Web app login

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The STOPP skill is a perfect example of CBT in action - an effective way to achieve a better outcome.

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Refugee Placements on NADT Early Intervention Programme

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The Hiking Household is designed to be a go-to guide for families of all abilities who are keen to get outside with their brood!

We offer easy to follow routes here in Cumbria, whether you are local to the area, or visiting on holiday, we have something for all ages and abilities to enjoy.

Search our map today and discover hundreds of family friendly adventures.

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We’re the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people's mental health.
YoungMinds offers support, training and resources for children, young people, parent/carers and services.

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YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People

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YoungMinds are a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents, making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need.

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Westmorland and Furness Health and Wellbeing Support Links

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Westmorland and Furness Health and Wellbeing Support Links

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This includes information on:

Healthy start vouchers - find out if you are eligible and how to apply.

Change4life - school health and weight checks

Healthy Families Cumbria Pledge - A pledge that children will have the best start in life through a joined up approach between families and everyone who works with young children.

Cumbria Health and Wellbeing Coaches - work with over 16s who want to make positive changes to their lives.

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Families Information | Health and Wellbeing

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The lifestyle choices we make today can decrease our risk of serious illnesses. In this section you can find out about different ways to stay well in mind and body whatever your situation. We've got information on how to take care of yourself, and much more ......

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Westmorland and Furness EBSA Support Plan

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Westmorland and Furness EBSA Support Plan

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A really relatable, comprehensive blog with video, delivered by Dave from the Change Talks team. The blog and video look at supporting your child with anger, giving practical advise and tips that can be used at home with your child.

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Anger is a difficult emotion. It's one of the one's that is readily labelled as "negative" and as you'll get used to my thoughts on this, emotions are neither negative or positive, but rather appropriate or inappropriate for the situation. Or to call upon someone much smarter than myself and arguably the father of philosophy - Aristotle:

Anybody can become angry; that is easy. But to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

If your child is experiencing anger, chances are they are not taking it out on the right person, to the right degree at the right time, they are taking it out on you, in a degree that to you is utterly baffling and at a time that is usually it's most inconvenient.

Your child will often have reasons for being angry and these reasons will often be quite meaningful to them. As parents or carers, what we are seeing is the symptom, the way the anger is being expressed and because this is being expressed towards us, it's all too easy to fall into a defensive or even combative position. We fight fire with fire.

This leads us into one of the biggest problems with anger cycles in families. It creates a situation where it is "you vs the angry person" and the only solution to managing this is to switch things into "you and the person vs the cause of their anger".

The video below talks about many ways to help with the symptoms of anger at various levels of intensity. But if we don't adopt this mindset shift we will always just be putting out fires and never getting to the reason behind them.

To do this takes a big old dollop of "being a bigger person" and as a parent of two teen boys myself I know you probably already feel stretched thin in that department! If we want our children to choose better reactions to their problems, then we need to choose better reactions to their reactions... still with me?

So when that anger comes in our direction, the first step is to take a nice deep breath and remind ourselves "this isn't about me, it's me and the child vs the anger, not me vs the angry child". There's rarely a situation where doubling down on compassion isn't a good choice; and if instead of fighting their anger with more anger of your own, you instead show patience and kindness you're almost guaranteed a better outcome.

One final note, I say almost guaranteed a better outcome because breaking cycles doesn't always work on the first try. It took repetition to create the cycle and it may take repetition to break it. In fact at first your child may just end up confused wondering what on earth has gotten into you, they'll need some consistency if this is going to stick.

This technique of "me and you vs the problem" as opposed to "me vs you" works in all relationships, so give it a whirl!

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Let's talk about ANGER :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Westmorland and Furness Autism Information and Support Hub

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Westmorland and Furness Autism Information and Support Hub

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Families Information | Autism Information and Support Hub

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A warm welcome to our new Autism Information Hub. Please watch the video delivered by Young Ambassadors of the National Autistic Society, Leah, Maya and Pavan.

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Cumberland Autism Information and Support Hub

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Cumberland Autism Information and Support Hub

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Families Information | Autism Information and Support Hub

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A warm welcome to our new Autism Information Hub. Please watch the video delivered by Young Ambassadors of the National Autistic Society, Leah, Maya and Pavan.

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North Allerdale Development Trust newsletter

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North Allerdale Development Trust newsletter

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Information on:
Early Intervention Programmes
Pitstop Project
Wigton Womblers
Silloth Youth Group
Westnewton Youth Group
Kirkbride Youth Group

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Cumberland Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) Programme

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Cumberland Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) Programme

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Book sessions in your area now!
Visit cumberland.gov.uk/holidays to search the range of activities available.
• Bookings will work on a first-come-first served basis – and places are limited.
• Some activity providers offer transport. Visit cumberland.gov.uk/holidays for full details.
• Dates are liable to change, please contact the activity provider for more information.
Who is it for?
The Holiday Activity Programme is aimed at all school-age children and young people (Reception-Year 6).
• Places are FREE for young people who receive benefits related
Free School Meals and eligible children in particular circumstances.
All children who attend will also be provided with a meal.
• Interested in any of the activities listed in this leaflet?
Visit cumberland.gov.uk/holidays to book holiday activities now!
Or use the booking information provided.
The HAF email for enquiries: HAF@Cumberland.gov.uk
• If you are not eligible for a free place many providers offer paid places – please contact them to discuss your options.
• Many of our providers cater for children with additional needs, please contact the provider to discuss your child’s needs and suitability of the session.

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Cumbria's Holiday Activity and Food Programme is funded by Government and administered by Cumberland Council to support families of children in Cumberland on benefits-related Free School Meals. Activities are provided free of charge for these children.

Some activity providers also have spaces available for any child, but there may be a cost to parents. This is made clear in the activity information provided.
Activities in Cumberland
You can refine your search based on your district, your child's age and suitable dates.

You can also refine your search using the keyword search, which will show activities which relate to the word you input, for instance "crafting" will show all activities which include crafting.

To book a place, contact the provider directly using the information provided.

All providers have up to date safeguarding policies and staff working with children will have had a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Some activities, by their nature, will involve a degree of risk. Please speak to the provider if you have any concern.

This will depend on the activity. Please check with the provider.

Arrangements will vary between providers. If your child can no longer attend an activity, please let the provider know so they can make the place available for other children.

You are eligible for a funded place if your child meets the following criteria:

Children who receive benefits-related free school meals.

You may also be eligible for a funded place if your child meets one of the following criteria:

Children assessed as being in need or vulnerable

Children with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND)

Looked-after children (Children in public care, who are placed with foster carers, in residential homes or with parents or other relatives.

Children with an Education Health and Care plan (EHC)

* Please note, that it is up to the discretion of each provider whether to offer a funded place for a particular circumstance listed above.

For information about individual activities, contact the providers directly. For information about Cumbria's Holiday Activity and Food Programme or to request a copy of our locality flyers, email HAF@cumberland.gov.uk

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Cumbria's Holiday Activity and Food Programme

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Westmorland and Furness Advice and Support Services for Families

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Westmorland and Furness Advice and Support Services for Families

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Children and Families Information Service

Financial Help - Ways to Welfare

Early Help

Schools and Learning - Support for parents/carers on choosing childcare provision

Cumbria SEND Information, Advice and Support Service

Child and Family Support Services - Providing support for children, young people from pre-birth and 19 years

Westmorland and Furness Family Hub - Link to a new service and website providing advice, activities and support for parents.

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The Children and Families Information Directory has lots of information available within each section, it also links to services that offer help, advice and support to parents and carers.

Details available are local services, national organisations, websites and helplines.

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Families Information | Advice and Support Services for Families

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Free online course to support better communication

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Free online course to support better communication

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Disagreements are a normal part of life, and most couples argue from time to time.
The way you approach these conversations can make a big difference to you, your partner, and your children.
Arguing better is a free online course to help you manage difficult conversations, avoid conflict, and improve things for your whole family.
You will learn:
• Where stress comes from and how it can affect you.
• Ways to recognise stress and talk about it.
• How to support each other through difficult times.
• What causes arguments and how to stop them.

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Cumberland Health and Wellbeing Support Links

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Cumberland Health and Wellbeing Support Links

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The lifestyle choices we make today can decrease our risk of serious illnesses.

In this section you can find out about different ways to stay well in mind and body whatever your situation. We've got information on how to take care of yourself, and much more ......

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Families Information | Health and Wellbeing

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Cumberland Advice and Support Services for Families

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Cumberland Advice and Support Services for Families

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Families Information | Advice and Support Services for Families

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Primary Mental Health workers (PMHW) offer consultation and advice to professionals about services in the area that can support children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.
They do not need children’s details or parent/carer consent to offer consultation to professionals.

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Copeland Wellness Service - Social Prescriber Service

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Copeland Wellness Service - Social Prescriber Service

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Services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing. We have centres where children and young people can visit and have a trained worker they can trust and talk to. We help them build their confidence and get to the root of their difficulties.

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LINK is a Social Prescribing Service for Children and Young People aged 5 to 19 in Cumbria.
LINK works alongside GP practice teams in Carlisle, Penrith & Eden, Keswick & Solway and Longtown & Brampton Primary Care Networks (PCN), to support children and young people with their emotional health and wellbeing.
LINK is a personalised service - every child and young person works with a link worker to establish what is important to them as individuals and to find a solution that works for them.
Children and young people must be registered to a GP surgery or attend a school within one of the above PCN areas and can be referred into the Service by their GP, other healthcare professional or professional at school.

Our offer:
* 1 to 1 support with a Link Worker
* Assessment tools based on Signs of Wellbeing
* Drop-in Wellbeing Groups in various settings
* Working widely with other community groups

Area's of support:
* Confidence & low self esteem
* Social Isolation
* Peer difficulties
* School related worries
* Community Engagement
* Future goal setting
* Developing resilience
* Worry management
* Family relationships
* Coping with stress & mild anxiety

Instagram: @linkcumbria Facebook: LINK Cumbria

Mental health

Services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing. We have centres where children and young people can visit and have a trained worker they can trust and talk to. We help them build their confidence and get to the root of their difficulties.
Find out more about Mental health Search for Mental health services

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Cumbria LINK - Young People's Social Prescribing Service

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LINK is a Social Prescribing Service for Children and Young People aged 5 to 19 in Cumbria. LINK works alongside GP practice teams in Carlisle, Penrith & Eden, Keswick & Solway and Longtown & Brampton Primary Care Networks (PCN), to support children and young people with their emotional health and wellbeing.

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We work with anyone over the age of 16, who want to make positive changes to their life.

Our role is to coach you to improve factors that influence your wellbeing.  This could include:

improving your social wellbeing

physical health

mental health

Most of the people we work with have faced a period of crisis or have multiple issues that they need to understand and work through.

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We work with anyone over the age of 16, who want to make positive changes to their life.

Our role is to coach you to improve factors that influence your wellbeing. This could include:

improving your social wellbeing

physical health

mental health

Most of the people we work with have faced a period of crisis or have multiple issues that they need to understand and work through.

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Health and Wellbeing Team | Cumberland Council

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Team of staff working within the Public Health Team working on public health initiatives and providing health and wellbeing support.

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Focus Family offers support for families facing challenges:

Address risk of sanctions from Job Centre

Identifying under and over payments from Job Centre, which often results in families facing further financial difficulties when money has to be repaid

Move adults into training by paying for their child care costs

Link in with local charities and businesses to provide appropriate support

Families helped with setting up home due to fleeing domestic abuse

Sanitary products for girls and women struggling to access appropriate protection

Prom Wear project so disadvantaged families can still go to their proms

Get additional welfare assistance for frontline staff to share with families in need

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Focus Family offers support for families facing challenges:

Address risk of sanctions from Job Centre

Identifying under and over payments from Job Centre, which often results in families facing further financial difficulties when money has to be repaid

Move adults into training by paying for their child care costs

Link in with local charities and businesses to provide appropriate support

Families helped with setting up home due to fleeing domestic abuse

Sanitary products for girls and women struggling to access appropriate protection

Prom Wear project so disadvantaged families can still go to their proms

Get additional welfare assistance for frontline staff to share with families in need

Why you're going to a different website

As a new council we are in the process of adding information to this website. To give you the information you need some pages will link back to the old council websites.
About the council changes

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Focus Family offers support for families facing challenges: Address risk of sanctions from Job Centre Identifying under and over payments from Job Centre, which often results in families facing further financial difficulties when money has to be repaid Move adults into training by paying for their child care costs Link

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Autism digital passport – Fantastic tool for understanding a young person’s individual needs. Can be used to support a young person with autism at school during transition, with a visit to the GP/hospital, on holiday etc.

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Inspira - Employment support for Young People

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Inspira - Employment support for Young People

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Fancy a career change or looking for work? We can help!

Inspira is a leading employability skills expert, providing FREE professional careers advice and guidance. Over 21,000 people from Cumbria and Lancashire access our services each year.

Inspira can help you move forward with your career. We’ll identify skills, strengths, experience, aspirations, and any areas you may wish to develop. Whatever your goal or aims our friendly expert team of advisers can cover your needs.

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Life's a journey

Inspira helps people like you, find your dream job. Get in touch and find out how we can help with your career journey. Read more

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Join Inspira for an inspirational career journey like no other. We have roles available in Cumbria and Lancashire. Read more

Careers advice that counts

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Fancy a career change or looking for work? We can help!

Inspira is a leading employability skills expert, providing FREE professional careers advice and guidance. Over 21,000 people from Cumbria and Lancashire access our services each year.

Inspira can help you move forward with your career. We’ll identify skills, strengths, experience, aspirations, and any areas you may wish to develop. Whatever your goal or aims our friendly expert team of advisors can cover your needs.

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We are Inspira, a leading career management and personal development organisation operating in the North West of England. Our mission is to empower young people and adults with the skills and confidence they need to reach their potential in life and work.

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We help families on low incomes
who are raising a disabled,
or seriously ill, child or young
person, aged 17 or under.

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Always another way - Mental Health Services

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Always another way - Mental Health Services

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Low Level Mental Health Support for Young People & Adults in Copeland & Allerdale.
We are a local community interest company providing preventative mental health support services for children, young people and adults. Our team is from a wide of range of backgrounds and are dedicated to the roles they play in the organisation and to making a difference in the community.

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Welcome to Always Another Way, Cumbria. Low Level Mental Health Support for Young People & Adults in Copeland & Allerdale. We are a local community interest company providing preventative mental health support services for children, young people and adults.

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Domestic abuse Project in Cumberland/West Cumbria

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Domestic abuse Project in Cumberland/West Cumbria

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"Without you wonderful, supportive people, I and many others would be facing the pain and trauma of this situation alone. So grateful that you set up this amazing charity and work so hard for us all."

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"Without you wonderful, supportive people, I and many others would be facing the pain and trauma of this situation alone. So grateful that you set up this amazing charity and work so hard for us all."

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Relationships are a necessary part of healthy living, but there is no such thing as a perfect relationship. Relationships, from acquaintances to romances, have the potential to enrich our lives and add to our enjoyment of life. However, these same relationships can cause discomfort, and sometimes even cause harm.
Hall Health Centre, University of Washington

Are you in a relationship that's causing distress or harm?

Are you:

Worried about your or your partner's behaviour?

Concerned that you or your partner's behaviour is abusive?

Struggling to communicate?

Finding arguments are getting out of control?

Feeling that your relationship may not be healthy?

Turning the Spotlight could help

Turning the Spotlight is a service offered by Victim Support Cumbria. We support people who are having problems with their relationships, leading to arguments, an unhealthy relationship, and abuse. We work with both victims and perpetrators of abuse.

Turning the Spotlight is a free, confidential, and non-judgemental service.

We work with couples and individuals, with or without children.

You can refer yourself to Turning the Spotlight, or another agency may refer you to us.

What happens after a referral?

A member of the Victim Support Cumbria team will contact you to discuss the situation and challenges you're facing.

Each person is given a caseworker, who'll carry out an initial assessment to make sure the service is right for you.

If Turning the Spotlight is right for you and your situation, the caseworker will provide you with one-to-one support and help you to access our programmes.

Group work sessions

Depending on your situation and needs you could take part in one or more of the following group work sessions:

What you'll gain from Turning the Spotlight

The programmes within Turning the Spotlight can offer:

Better communications skills

Calmer home life

Better understanding of your feelings and how they impact on your behaviour

Techniques to help you stop minor disagreements from escalating

Empathy - looking at situations from another perspective

Self-awareness

Personal development

Feedback from Turning the Spotlight participants:

' At first I was anxious and uncomfortable but by week three I started opening up and learning. I can honestly say I have enjoyed the course and found it very useful in every day life.
'I tend to debate more with people rather than getting aggressive and letting things get out of hand. I've learnt to allow the other person time to speak and explain how they feel and not getting angry just because I don't agree.'The course was extremely beneficial. It has had a massive impact on my life especially at home and in my relationship'.'

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Relationships are a necessary part of healthy living, but there is no such thing as a perfect relationship. Relationships, from acquaintances to romances, have the potential to enrich our lives and add to our enjoyment of life. However, these same relationships can cause discomfort, and sometimes even cause harm.

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PAC is a registered charity based in Carlisle, Cumbria that provides free counselling and therapy for children and young people. Sessions can be either talking therapy or non-verbal therapy. We offer psychodynamic therapy in art, drama, dance/movement and equine therapy. We also offer online therapy, and where appropriate, group therapy sessions.

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PAC Therapy is funded by

UPDATE - 7th February 2023

We are keen to hear from people who would like to volunteer and help improve and build PAC up so that we can better meet the demand on our service. To express an interest in volunteering please complete this form here.

UPDATE - 6th February 2023

We are keen to hear from professionals, parents/carers and young people that want to refer to our service, are waiting for our service, are using our service or have used our service. Please complete our Feedback Form here.

UPDATE - 13th June 2022

We are currently recruiting for a Child and Young Person Creative Therapist. Further details available here.

UPDATE - 7th June 2022

After a three month pause we are now able to accept new referrals. Please note that this is with some restrictions. Further details and new digital referral form can be found here.
PAC Therapy
PAC is a registered charity based in Carlisle, Cumbria that provides free counselling and therapy for children and young people. Sessions can be either talking therapy or non-verbal therapy. We offer psychodynamic therapy in art, drama, dance/movement and equine therapy. We also offer online therapy, and where appropriate, group therapy sessions. The sessions are confidential and held weekly at PAC's offices in Carlisle city centre and the amount of therapy sessions will vary based on the client's needs.

All of the PAC therapists are professionally qualified and accredited, receive regular managerial supervision and undertake independent clinical supervision to ensure the highest standards of professionalism and care.

We accept referrals from parents, carers and professionals or young people can refer themselves. We work with anyone aged 7 to 19 years old. This is extended up to age 25 if the young person is leaving care or has a learning difficulty or disability.

We see ourselves as working with people not problems but below is a list of the types of things that we work with in session.

Bullying

Self harm

Attachment or relationship problems

Grief and loss

Neglect/physical/sexual/emotional abuse

Family break up and divorce

Witnessing domestic violence

Feeling anxious

Low mood

Eating disorders

Hearing Voices

Feeling suicidal

Low self esteem

Gender identity or sexuality

Problems with drugs or alcohol

Trauma

People who access therapy and counselling experience a range of benefits. These include:-

More motivation

A better understanding of emotions and how to manage them

Increased self-esteem and confidence

Getting more out of education and training

Making sense of things that happened in the past

Improved home life and relationships

Feeling happier and more positive

Making a referral
If you, or someone you know, would like our help please call us on 01228 533874 or use the contact form here.

We are kindly funded by Cumbria County Council, E.C. Graham and Francis C. Scott Charitable Trust, Cumbria Community Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund.

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Counselling and therapy for children and young people Carlisle Cumbria

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PAC Therapy is funded by We are keen to hear from people who would like to volunteer and help improve and build PAC up so that we can better meet the demand on our service. To express an interest in volunteering please complete this form here.

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NADT are offering funded placements on their
Early Intervention Programme (EIP)
for refugee young people aged 8 to 16

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PITSTOP Cumbria for Young People aged 15 - 24

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PITSTOP Cumbria for Young People aged 15 - 24

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Pitstop Cumbria is a person-centered work experience

programme, supporting young people aged 15-24 years, who are at risk of becoming or are already Not in Education

Employment or Training (NEET).

Pitstop Cumbria uses a youth work-based approach in a real

work environment helping each young person to address and remove emotional and social barriers that currently exist to their education, training, or employment.

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Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership

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Working with communities to improve the mental health, resilience and wellbeing of people in Lancashire and South Cumbria is one of our partnership priorities.

Our ambition in Lancashire and South Cumbria is that mental health and wellbeing is considered of equal importance to physical health in all of our communities. When people require more support, they should be able to access an effective range of age-appropriate mental health services. At present, there is variation in access, provision and clinical outcomes.
If you are in crisis and need help and support straight away please visit this page - crisis support - or dial 999.
For non-urgent help and support please visit the pages below.

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Our ambition in Lancashire and South Cumbria is that mental health and wellbeing is considered of equal importance to physical health in all of our communities. When people require more support, they should be able to access an effective range of age-appropriate mental health services.