NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Recourses
NHS Ayrshire & Arran – Mental Health and Wellbeing(nhsaaa.net)
A Creative Self-Help Guide for Young People to Stay Healthy and Happy
Cool Heads 2014 Stress Essentials
r u worried? (healthscotland.com) Leaflet for Young People
r u sad? (healthscotland.com) Leaflet for Young People
Improving Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Leaflet for Parents
Steps to deal with stress (healthscotland.com) Leaflet
Getting started in Steps for Stress (soundcloud.com) Audio to help you relax
Health Information One Stop Shop
Some useful resources and videos to help you look after yourself, produced by the Mental Health Foundation.
How to look after your mental health | Mental Health Foundation
Shout 85258
Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope. We launched publicly in May 2019 and we’ve had more than 1,000,000 conversations with people who are anxious, stressed, depressed, suicidal or overwhelmed and who need immediate support. As a digital service, Shout 85258 has become increasingly critical since Covid-19, being one of the few mental health support services able to operate as normal at this time. Give us a SHOUT
Mind Yer Time!
Mind Yer Time! is a website designed by children and young people from the Children’s Parliament and the Scottish Youth Parliament. It has been created to support everyone who loves social media and screen time. They’ve got positive tips, stories and information for children and young people, to help them use their screen time positively!
10 Ways to Wellbeing (10 tips for looking after our mental wellbeing and a QR code to the website pages that contain more information)
A Guide for Mental Wellbeing
Can be downloaded/access here via the website:
*NEW A guide for children- a creative self help guide to stay health and happy – This might be useful for any parents/people working with younger children
Can be downloaded/access here via the website:
A Guide for Children (nhsaaa.net)
Improving C&YPs mental health and wellbeing- Information for parents and carer
A guide for Young People
Can be downloaded/access here via the website:
parents-carers-info_children-and-young-people_mental-health-and-wellbeing.pdf (nhsscotland.net)
A Guide for Young People:
Can be downloaded/access here via the website:
a-guide-for-yp-mh-wellbeing-6-mb.pdf (nhsscotland.net)
Free useful self-care apps
- Action for Happiness
Action for Happiness gives you friendly ‘nudges’ with an action idea each day. It sends you inspiring messages to give you a boost, and helps you connect and share ideas with like-minded people.
- Gratitude Garden
Get into the habit of cultivating gratitude everyday and create some art while you’re at it!
Mental Health Foundation
- Make it Count – Guide for parents and carers
It is important that children are encouraged and supported to look after their mental health every day. This guide offers suggestions for how you can help your child do this. The guide also offers advice for what you can do when things get tough and if you’re worried about your child’s mental health.
Make it Count: Guide for parents and carers | Mental Health Foundation
- Supporting Children’s Mental Health
Place2Be have some good resources for families that will help parents and carers to support their child and young person’s mental health and wellbeing.
How to support your child’s mental health – Place2Be
- MindEd for Families
A useful resource with lots of information about how to support children and young people’s mental health looking at development, communication and how to build confidence and harvest resilience.
- Gaming and Mental Health – it isn’t all bad!
Get more information about the positive impact gaming can have on children and young people’s mental health and explore how to have better time online.
- Parentline have developed an online course on The Wellbeing Toolkit which parents may wish to sign up for.
Wellbeing Toolkit2021 – Parent network Scotland
- Mind.org
Opening up about mental health
A good resource for young people that will give them information and advice about talking to others about mental health.
Talking to friends and family | Mind
