SUPPORT FOR PARENTS

Support for Parents/Carers:

We know it can be really challenging to be a parent/carer and equally challenging to be a teenager too. We have outlined below a list of support services as well as suggested ways that you can support your young person:

Families Under Pressure:

Narrated videos with simple tips and tricks, formulated by researchers and NHS mental health experts, which are backed by science and proven to work with families.

Supporting my young person with Home Learning:

H&F Guide to Home Learning 

Support for Parents/Carers in the Local Area:

• Family Support Services

• Parenting Support

• Parentsactive - for children with disabilities

• Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank

National Services:

Mental health:

• NHS Advice for Parents

• Young Minds mental health charity, has a confidential parents' helpline. Call them on 0808 802 5544 (9.30am to 4pm Monday to Friday)

• Papyrus offers support to parents and children in relation to suicide and suicide prevention. Visit their website or or contact their helpline (HopelineUK) 0800 068 4141

Safety and wellbeing

• NSPCC - help@nspcc.org.uk, 0808 800 5000

• Kidscape - Information and advice for parents, carers and young people with concerns about school bullying and abuse. 0207 823 5430 parentsupport@kidscape.org.uk 

• Bereavement / Terminal Illness Support: Cruse - 0808 808 1677

• 24hr medical advice - NHS 111

• Hope Support Services - support for young people aged five to twenty five when a loved one has a serious illness.

Domestic Abuse:

• Hert’s Sunflower 

Drugs and Addiction:

• Hope UK

• Talk to Frank 

Healthy Bodies/Eating Disorders:

• Beezee Bodies - Healthy habits for families 

• Beat Eating Disorders

LGBTQIA+/ Gender Identity:

• Gendered  Intelligence 

• Mermaids 

Sexual Health:

• Brook - free and confidential sexual health and well-being advice for young people

Self-Harm:

• Harmless - A centre of excellence for self-harm and suicide prevention