Urgent help for mental health
It's important to know that support services are available for you to access, whatever you’re going through. Where to get urgent mental health support.
Mental Health Crisis Line - 0800 330 8590 (24-hour)
What is mental wellbeing in children and young people?
Mental wellbeing is not simply the absence of mental illness; it is a broader indicator of social, emotional and physical wellness. It is influenced by a range of factors, including a child or young person's family, their community, and school environment, their physical health and their social and emotional skills.
Mental wellbeing can be defined as feeling good, feeling that life is going well and feeling able to get on with daily life.
Local Services:
- Bexley 0-19 Public Health Service - Teen Health Bexley 11-19 years
- BYPDAS - young people's drug and alcohol service in Bexley
- CAMHS - Bexley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. CAMHS provides specialist mental health services for children and young people from birth to 18 years and their families who are registered with a Bexley, Bromley or Greenwich GP or who are Looked After by the London Borough of Bexley. Contact details: Bexley CAMHS, Park Crescent, Erith, DA8 3EE. Email: oxl-tr.bexleycamhs@nhs.net Tel: 020 3260 5200
- CAMHS care and treatment guide
- CAMHS resources
- Mental Health in Schools Team (MHST) - MHST is part of the Bexley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Team. They provide preventive and early intervention support for children and their families. They work with a number of schools in Bexley and only take referrals from schools where they work
- Counselling Matters Bexley - Counselling is available for adults and for children and young people between the ages of 5-18. Please note, counselling for 5-13 year olds is only available face-to-face
- Headscape - website developed by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust for young people who live in Bexley
- Kooth - one-to-one emotional wellbeing service
- Social Prescribing - the Children and Young People Social Prescribing offer includes a variety of services that can offer mentoring, befriending, social skills group, talking therapy, mindfulness and after-school clubs to support with the transition from year 6 to year 7
- Youth Action Diversity Trust (YADT) - YADT is a charity that works with young people and their families, providing behavioural support services. YADT also provide social clubs for adults struggling with loneliness and isolation
National Services:
- Beat - eating disorders
- Childline - online, on the phone, anytime. Call 0800 1111
- Child Bereavement UK - rebuilding lives together
- Good Thinking - an online service that helps Londoners look after their mental health and wellbeing
- Insight - supports young people, families and children who are affected by drug and alcohol use
- The Mix - essential support for under-25s'
- Papyrus - prevention of young suicide
- Place2Be - improving children's mental health
- Stem 4 - supporting teenage mental health
- Shout - texting mental health support
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - eating disorders
- Suicide Bereavement Service - The South East London Suicide Bereavement Service supports people who have lost someone to suicide
- Winston's Wish - giving hope to grieving children
- With you - advice and support around drugs, alcohol and mental health
- Young Minds - for young people and parents
Click here to be taken to the adult's wellbeing page.