Please see below a list of helpful websites and resources regarding Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Local Signposting
Organisations providing support to children and young people’s wellbeing
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Jersey
Advice & Support for Young People in Jersey Channel Islands – Youth Enquiry Service
Other Websites and helpful information
YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People | YoungMinds
Charlie Waller Trust, mental health charity
The Mix – Essential support for under 25s
National charity helping people with Anxiety – Anxiety UK
OCD-UK | A national OCD charity, run by, and for people with lived experience of OCD
The Students Against Depression – Students Against Depression
The UK’s Eating Disorder Charity – Beat
Helpful Apps
For Me – This App, created by ChildLine with the input of teenagers includes all of ChildLine services available; direct 1-1 access to a counsellor, advice and instant messaging on a range of issues that affect Young People. It is safe and discreet.
Moodometer – This App is an interactive mood diary for monitoring and understanding emotional wellbeing, it includes tips and guidance on how to influence mood.
StressHeads – This App aims to help 16 – 25 year olds identify and cope with stress. It also includes games to help distract Young people from immediate stress and monitor causes of stress.
SmilingMind – This App is a modern meditation App for young people, it uses mindfulness to boost calmness, contentment and clarity.
SuperBetter – This App has been created to help young people build resilience to become stronger, happier and healthier.
MindShift – This App is designed to help teens and young people cope with anxiety by teaching them to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking and identify active steps to help take charge of anxiety.
MoodKit – This App uses CBT principles to help people with depression and anxiety manage and track their moods. It has a thought checker to identify negative thoughts and an activities tool to suggest wellbeing activities.
PositivePenguins (for children) – This App is aimed at 8 – 12 year olds and helps children understand their feeling and better understand the relationship between what they think and what they feel.
Stop Panic and Anxiety Self Help – This App is a self help App for people experiencing panic attacks.
Youper (for social anxiety) – This App has been developed to help people with social anxiety to gain confidence in social situations. Using the principles of CBT, ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and MBSR (Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction), it aims to help people understand their anxiety, control it, and then challenge it using real life guided practice exercises.
Stay Alive – This App offers help and support to people with thoughts of suicide and people concerned about someone else.
Calm Harm – This App aims to help young people resist the urge to self-harm by using four task categories which reflect the reasons why many people chose to self-harm (Distraction, comfort, express or release).