Mental health helplines and services for young people in Harrow
84 services found
NATTER
Provided by Mental Health Innovations
Get confidential support through text messaging. You can text about anything that’s on your mind. Your text will be answered by trained volunteers.
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Cedars Youth and Community Centre
Provided by Watford Football Club Community Sports and Education Trust
Has a range of programmes across education, health, inclusion, dance, and sports. Most activities are free. Check the website for the current timetable and whether you need to book for the activity you’re interested in.
Activities for young refugees and asylum seekers
Provided by Young Roots
Activities including sports, arts and creative sessions, and English languaage and homework support. You can drop in to the hub without an appointment – the Brent hub can also support young people from neighbouring boroughs.
Social prescribing link workers for adults
Provided by Advocacy 1st
A social prescribing link worker can help you improve your health and wellbeing. They can help you find non-medical services and community resources. Your GP needs to refer you to get help from a social prescribing link worker.
Advocacy for adults who use social or healthcare services
Provided by Advocacy 1st
An independent advocate can support you to understand your rights and make sure you are included in decisions about your care. This can include help in meetings and help to write letters.
Antidote drug and alcohol support
Provided by London Friend
Drug and alcohol support for LGBTQ+ adults (including help around chemsex) through one-to-one support as well as social activities and referrals. You can access support by dropping into a session or by emailing.
Arts for Life Project
Provided by Arts for Life Project
A range of services, including group art sessions, one-to-one clinical therapy, one-to-one art and wellbeing sessions, and one-to-one mentoring.
Ascent
Provided by EACH
Up to 21 sessions of one-to-one counselling for women with current or past experience of domestic violence or abuse. Counselling is available in Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto and English.
Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People
Provided by CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Offers help and support to young people who have (or are thought to have) an eating disorder including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and other specified feeding or eating disorder.
Compass Elevation
Provided by Compass
Confidential support for young people who need support around their own or someone else’s drug or alcohol use. Offers one-to-one support as well as specialist advice and guidance.
FAQ - Mental health services on Best For You
I need help urgently – what should I do?
Please visit the Get help now page to find services that can provide urgent help. If anyone is in immediate danger, call 999 now.
Why are most services located in north-west London?
Best For You is run in partnership by four organisations in north-west London (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, West London NHS Trust, and CW+). This means we can provide more information and detail about the helplines and services available in these north-west London boroughs.
We also list national support that you can access from anywhere in England.
If you work for an NHS organisation and would like to talk to Best For You about working together, please get in touch.
How do you choose which services to list?
We list services that are free for young people to access and provide support for mental health and wellbeing.
For NHS services, we list the main services that people can access by referring themselves or being referred by a professional (like a GP or someone at school).
If you know of a service that we could add, please get in touch and tell us about it.
How do I tell you about a service you could add?
If you know of a service that we could add, please get in touch and tell us about it.
Why did my search return no results?
If your search has lots of filters, it might be that there isn’t a service that meets every single criteria. You could try removing a filters like ‘Type of support’ to see the services that are available in your area.
Whatever you’re struggling with, you can always text NATTER to 85258 to chat to a trained volunteer by text message. You can talk to a NATTER volunteer about anything that’s on your mind, and it’s free and confidential. Find out more about texting NATTER.
The thing I want help for isn’t listed as a topic – what should I do?
Unfortunately, it isn’t possible for us to list every single possible thing that young people might be struggling with.
You could try choosing the closest available filter – or select ‘How I’m feeling’ to see helplines and services that offer more general support for people who are struggling.
Whatever’s going on, you can always text NATTER to 85258 to chat to a trained volunteer by text message. You can talk to a NATTER volunteer about anything that’s on your mind, and it’s free and confidential. Find out more about texting NATTER.
Can you help me to find personalised support?
Unfortunately we cannot provide advice or signposting to individuals.
You can use this tool to find services in England or read about how to get NHS mental health support.
Whatever’s going on, you can always text NATTER to 85258 to chat to a trained volunteer by text message. You can talk to a NATTER volunteer about anything that’s on your mind, and it’s free and confidential. Find out more about texting NATTER.
Text NATTER for help
Anyone can text ‘NATTER’ to 85258 to seek
help, wherever they are in the UK. It’s a free, anonymous service and available 24/7.
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