Information & Resources for Young People

Information & Resources for Young People
Mental health resources available across Greater Manchester

Young People for Mental Health Support

Kooth, the online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people aged 11 to 18 years has been available in Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Trafford Rochdale and Wigan for some time. It’s now available in Bury, Salford, Tameside and Stockport. This expansion was brought forward in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Kooth provides:

Live chat function for a CYP to converse with a qualified counsellor;
Messaging function for children and young people to contact the service, these are monitored and managed by counsellors, emotional wellbeing practitioners and media workers;
Static and live topic-focused forums; forums encourage the development of a peers supported community online;
Online magazine containing a wealth of topic specific resources, from mental health specific topics to more general subjects; and
Crisis information, and self-help resources

The target groups in Greater Manchester:

Children and young people with emotional wellbeing and/or emerging mental health problems, many of whom will require a low level/targeted/short-term intervention
Children and young people who are hard to reach and do not engage with services through traditional routes

To find out more visit:

hub.gmhsc.org.uk/mental-health/kooth/

To sign up to use Kooth, go to:

www.kooth.com

GM Health & Social Care Partnership: Mental Health Resources

GM Health and Social Care Partnership have developed a webpage providing resources to support mental health. There is a huge amount of helpful resources, including pages dedicated specifically to young people, children and families, and creative resources:

hub.gmhsc.org.uk/mental-health/children-young-people-and-families/

Disagreement Resolution

A guide for young people aged 16 to 25 who want to know who to talk to if you they unhappy with the help they are getting for their special educational needs or disability at school or college.

You might also find this guide useful if you are an organisation supporting young people.

This guide has been jointly developed by the Department for Education and Mott MacDonald, with help from young people with a learning disability and organisations that support them.

https://www.sendpathfinder.co.uk/

Links to useful resources

UCAS - advice for disabled students