Mental health support
A listing of local and national services that can provide help and support to people experiencing mental health problems.
Children and young people
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
Online resources, tips, activities and strategies for children, young people, parents and carers coping with anxiety and worries.
Barnardo’s See Hear Respond – Support Hub
Online support, including advice and information, online counselling and a telephone helpline.
Bromley Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) 18 +
Provides specialist community health services to people aged 18+ with learning disabilities, complex physical health needs, mental health care needs, epilepsy and those needing positive behavioural support.
Bromley Y works in partnership with Bromley to provide a free support service for children, young people and their families. It promotes the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children, young people and families by enabling change, fostering resilience and helping them build healthy relationships.
Bromley Y have launched their new The Signpost texting service for children and young people aged 11+ . Text messages are responded to within 24 hours with helpful advice and support.
Watch the Signpost video for more information
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) work with children and young people up to the age of 18 in Bromley.
Bromley specialist community CAMHS (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust) provides specialist mental health consultation, assessment and treatment to children and young people aged 0-18 with severe and enduring emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties, and their families/carers. Referrals to CAMHS are through Bromley Y.
Find out how you can deal with bullying - including bullying at school or work, cyberbullying, or general advice on bullying.
Information on an issues including anxiety, family relationships, and self-harm.
Offers an online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people up to the age of 25 aimed at supporting young people, care leavers, children with SEND, youth offending. Accessible through mobile, tablet and desktop and free to use. If you’re a parent looking for more information about Kooth, please email parents@xenzone.com
Information for young people and children about mental health and emotional wellbeing, and links to some services.
Parents and carers
Parenting or caring for a child or young person can be tough. It's important to make sure you look after your own mental wellbeing. Remember you’re not alone.
The Bromley mental health and wellbeing toolkit (this document is not accessible to people using screen readers) has been developed as a comprehensive local resource for parents and professionals.
Bromley Well mental health and wellbeing service
Provides support to adults (18+) and their families or carers who may be experiencing mild concerns relating to their emotional and mental wellbeing, through information and advice, and peer support. Contact Bromley Well free on 0808 278 7898
Navigate is a national mentoring service that provides individual one-to-one emotional support for parents of disabled children up to 18 years, who are on a pathway to diagnosis or have received a diagnosis in the last year. Parents can find out more on the Scope website or by calling 0808 801 0510
Bromley Y calendar of events provides dates and details for a series of webinars all bookable online.
This dedicated NHS website is here to supporting you with tips, techniques and resources during times when you have feelings of sadness or stress or are having negative emotions that are having a significant impact on your quality of life, affecting your relationships or your ability to learn.
Offers mental health services free on the NHS; Find out more about the mental health support services available to you on their website.
Offers tips for supporting children and young people with their return to school, encouraging their interests, managing their emotions or behaviour and getting them to talk about how they feel.
Advice and support for carers. SLAM families under pressure provides simple tips and tricks, formulated by researchers and NHS mental health experts at the SE London Maudsley Trust.
A service commissioned by the NHS in South East London that provides a free, anonymous online counselling and emotional wellbeing service for adults 26 years and older.
Offers free and confidential talking therapies and support for adults over the age of 18 in Bromley and who are registered with a Bromley GP. You can refer yourself by either by calling 0300 003 3000 or completing their online self-referral form.
Offers essential support for parents under 25 years old. They provide help for you to take on any challenge you are facing – from problems with mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break ups to drugs. Contact is through their website or their free confidential help line 0808 808 4994
Young Minds Parents Helpline - is available to offer advice to parents and carers worried about a child or young person under 25. For free confidential help call: 0808 8025544
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The information, advice and support service (IASS) provides confidential and impartial advice and information to support parents or carers and children and young people who have, or may have, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) aged 0 – 25.