This page has been created for our children, young people and their families to access helpful resources. We have collated the resources that we would typically recommend. There may be others and we would love to hear your recommendations so that we can keep our pages up to date.
Mental health resources
MindMate Leeds is the name for all the different ways children and young people in the city can get support with their mental health and wellbeing.
Young Minds is the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people’s mental health.
Mind is a mental health charity which aims to ensure people are not alone with mental health difficulties.
Kooth is an online counselling and emotional well-being platform that is free at the point of access.
Therapy Comics – mental health resources using comics instead of text.
Childline is counselling service offered to young people up to the age of 19 years provided by the NSPCC.
Samaritans is a charity that offers emotional support to anyone who is in emotional distress or struggling to cope.
Kidscape provide support for young people who are experiencing bullying.
Child Bereavement UK provides support to children and their family after a bereavement of a child.
BEAT – a UK eating disorder charity.
National Autistic Society – the UK’s leading charity for people with Autism and their families.
ADHD Foundation is the UK’s leading neurodiversity charity offering a strength-based, lifespan service for the 1 in 5 of us who live with ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia and Tourette’s syndrome.
Operation Diversity Academy offers online training resource and membership for parents and guardians of neurodivergent children with special education needs and disabilities.
OCD UK – Support and information for anyone who experiences obsessive compulsive disorder.
National Self Harm Network offers support forums for people who self-harm and their families.
Care For The Family – Provides wide range of support in three key areas of life: marriage, parenting and bereavement.
Links to useful apps
Headspace – meditation app to guide healthy and happy wellbeing.
Moodgym – interactive self-help book to help learn tools to manage anxiety and depression.
SuperBetter – build resilience, the ability to stay strong, motivated and optimistic even in the face of change and difficult challenges.
Happify: Science-Based Activities and Games aims to provide effective tools to help you manage your thoughts and feelings.
Smiling Mind is a mindfulness app providing daily mindfulness and meditation exercises.
Calm Harm is a free app that helps manage or resist the urge to self-harm.
Calm an app to help improve health and happiness.
Chill Panda – an app to help reduce anxiety and improve wellbeing in children through a game.
HospiChill is an app to help prepare children for coming into hospital.
NO OCD Treatment and Therapy – developed by people with OCD and experts to deliver live video-based OCD therapy and in-between session support.
SafeSpot is an an app designed to help young people improve their coping skills.
MoodKit – an app designed to use CBT skills to effectively engage in mood enhancing activities.
SAM | Self-help App for the Mind provides a range of self-help techniques organised into several main wellbeing themes, together with tools for recording and monitoring changes in your mood.
Combined Minds App is developed to help families and friends support young people with their mental health.
Cove is an app that uses music for mental health, using music therapy principles to help self-manage your mental health.
BlueIce – Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is a prescribed evidence-based app to help young people manage their emotions and to reduce urges to self-harm.
Equoo Game is a game developed by psychologists to boost emotional health.
WorryTree helps you record, manage and problem solve your worries and anxiety based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques.