Help How can services support a MindMate promotion in your school?
Local support services can come into your school and promote their service to pupils and staff. This page explains what each service can offer and the target age range.
MindMate
MindMate Ambassadors are aged between 17 and 23 years with personal experience of mental health issues themselves or in their family.
Secondary settings:
- Stall with free MindMate merchandise. Pupils can talk about wellbeing and find out about support via the MindMate website
Primary settings:
- Ambassadors can attend parent coffee mornings in primary settings.
Contact:
Meet the ambassadors
Kooth
Free, BACP-accredited, safe online community of mental health support & counselling, for 10 to 18 year olds.
Years 5 to 11:
- Assemblies about mental health
- Sessions with year groups 5 to 11
- Specific sessions – Year 6 to Year 7 transition, and Year 11 Next Steps
- Stalls promoting Kooth
- Parent/carer Kooth information sessions
- Kooth staff training session
- Free digital and paper resources
Contact: Olivia Uttley outtley@kooth.com
Go to the website
Teen Connect
Phone, text, online chat support every evening of the week for 11 to 18 year olds. Provided by Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service.
Secondary settings:
- Stalls promoting Teen Connect
- Sessions with young people, parents or staff
Contacts:
SafeZone
Face 2 face, phone and zoom support 3 nights a week for 11 to 17 year olds and their parents/carers. Provided by Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service.
Secondary settings:
- Stalls promoting SafeZone
- Sessions with young people, parents or staff
Contacts:
Leeds CAMHS Crisis Call Line
Supports children, young people and parents by listening, supporting, advising and signposting.. Open 8am – 8pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 0800 953 0505.
Primary and secondary settings:
- Stalls promoting CAMHS Crisis Call
- Information sessions with staff, parents and
- Contribute to assemblies
Contact:
TBC
Child Bereavement UK Leeds
Individual and group support to children and young people up to the age of 18 (25yrs with SEND) who have been bereaved of a significant person in their lives.
Primary and secondary settings:
- Stall
- Talk promoting the service
- Bereavement awareness training for educational professionals
Contact:
nicola.swales@childbereavementuk
.org
0-19 Public Health Integrated Nursing Service (PHINS)
Health Visiting and School Nursing. ChatHealth is a confidential text messaging service for 11-19 year olds.
Primary and secondary settings:
- Stalls about their service (if capacity)
- Promotional material for secondaries about Chat Health
Contact:
Youth in Mind
Support for young people struggling with their mental health due to the impact of very difficult, frightening or distressing experiences or trauma. All staff have personal experience of trauma.
Years 6-13:
- 1to1 support in school
- Tailored group support in school
- Talks at assemblies or events
- Information sessions for staff
- Stalls
Contact:
Leeds Suicide Bereavement Service
1 to 1 and group support for anybody affected by suicide. All staff have personal experience of suicide bereavement.
All year groups:
- Group support sessions for pupils/staff in the case of a death of any school community member
- Family support sessions
- 1 to 1 support for any age
- Psycho-education course for pupils who have experienced any traumatic bereavement
- Information sessions on the impact of a suicide and how best to support pupils and staff
- Stalls and workshops at events
Contact:
THRU (Talk, Help, Relate, Understand)
Group peer support facilitated by people with personal experience of struggling with their mental health.
Years 10-13:
- Tailored workshops delivered in school/college, including Managing Anxiety,, Healthy Relationships, Identity and Self Image, Mindfulness and more.
- 6 week course on transition from childhood to adulthood
- Talks at assemblies or events
- Information sessions for staff
- Stalls
Contact:
Culturally Diverse Minds
Support for culturally diverse communities, delivered by culturally diverse staff with personal experience of mental health difficulties.
6th form settings:
- 1to1 support in school
- Tailored group support in school
- Talks at assemblies or events
- Information sessions for staff
- Stalls
Contact:
