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Support, self-help & campaigning groups
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- British Council of Disabled People - umbrella organisation for groups controlled by disabled people
- Bullying Online - help & advice for children, young people, parents & education staff, includes advice, online resources & links, online discussion forum, bullying guidelines issued by the National Association of Head Teachers & advice by email
- Childline - range of factsheets about & for children's support, including information on other organisations, bereavement, bullying, child abuse, eating problems, exam stress, HIV/AIDS, step-families & suicide
- Couple Counselling Scotland - a confidential counselling service for people in marriage and other intimate personal relationships, site includes Frequently Asked Questions & local couple counselling services
- Critical Psychiatry website - articles, links to websites critical of psychiatry & links to survivor sites, articles critical of psychiatry, links to email forums
- Cruse Bereavement Care - free information and advice to anyone who has been affected by a death. Site includes online information, including section on helping children & young people, publications, training & volunteering. Tel: 08457 585565
- Depression Alliance (UK) - FAQs, self-help groups, newsletter, penfriend scheme, leaflets on-line including student stress survival pack
- dial uk - Disability Advice Network - Disability Advice Network, to find your local service - not availalbe in every area
- Domestic Violence Resources - UK & International links, also US domestic violence handbook
- Emotional Support on the Internet - mainly newsgroups & mailing lists including UK contacts & UK Telephone Helplines Association Search Engine
- First UKFed Web Page - UK Federation of Smaller Mental Health Agencies
- GamCare - information, support & advice on gambling, also education packs, specialist counselling services, publications, research
- Gingerbread - support for lone parents, Freephone: 0800 018 4318, Mon-Fri 10am-4pm also news, email discussions, chatroom, factsheets & online publications, training & links
- Leaflets for self help - wide range on online leaflets covering, common difficulties & work-related problems from Cambridge University Counselling Service, how to series & understanding series from MIND
- MadNation - e-mail discussions & resources for users of mental health services
- Mediation UK - links to young mediators network, range of information, leaflets & training on mediation skills
- Mental Health Foundation - covering mental health & learning disabled issues, includes how to get help, section on attitudes & discrimination, legislation in the UK, advice on how to complain about the media portrayal of mental health issues
- Mental Magazine - campaigning for good health & social care, including news, articles, discussion forum
- Self-help Source Book - international resources from Mental Health Net
- National Family Mediation Services - helping people through divorce & separation, information about mediation & finding a local service in the UK
- National Nightline - telephone helpline for students, with links to local nightlines & other help online
- National Phobics Society - organisation of people who have experienced anxiety disorders, includes social anxiety pages, online factsheets, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), anxiety drugs guide & section on herbal medicine, also contacts for anxiety research, diy self-diagnosis kit, therapy locations (mainly non-medical), links to other phobia sites
- Peer Support Forum - promoting peer support in schools & colleges, includes briefing papers, sex & relationship education, models of peer support, principles of good practice, directory of schools & colleges running projects, directory of training providers, reports & publications
- Peer Support Networker - newsletter of the Peer Support Forum, with online issues, reports & news, publications, links to peer support worldwide, other UK & international links
- POPAN (Prevention of Professional Abuse Network) - helps people who have been abused by health or social care professionals & works towards preventing future abuse, site includes events, newsletters, articles, factsheets, services, links. Support line for survivors on tel: 0845 4 500 300
- Psychiatric Support & Aftercare Workshop
- RD4U - to support young people, 12 - 18 after the death of someone close to them, also Freephone helpline tel: 0808 808 1677, also private email service, personal stories, what's on in the North West, message board
- Relate - largest relationship counselling organisation in the UK, information & brief case studies about their counselling services, psychosexual therapy & mediation, factsheets online, email service available next year, links to other professional organisations, information about becoming a counsellor
- The Samaritans - on-line support through e-mail + other information
- Samaritans - Festival branch - a 24 hour Samaritan service provided for festivals & events, site has information about the service & volunteers, also festival & other links
- SANE, SANELINE - Helpline: 0845 767 8000, also online information & advice on mental health, discusssion group, online survey
- schizophrenia.co.uk - news, articles, treatments, research, policy documents & also message boards & online discussion group
- School Psychology Resources Online - US site, large selection of information topics & links
- The Shyness Home Page - an index of resources, including online research & support groups
- Student Counselling - information about & links to counselling services at UK universities
- TALKadoption - Helpline - Tuesday - Thursday Tel: 0808 808 1234, website includes youth, adoption, professional & other links
- Telephone Helplines Association - site includes directory with 24 subject areas, including children, employment, health, housing, immigration, law, prison etc. also newsletter, forums
- UK - Help for Batterers - regional support groups
- UK Patient Support Groups for Addictions - useful link to most UK self-help groups
- Women's Aid - Women's Aid website - information & advice for women and children experiencing physical, sexual or emotional abuse in their homes, including contact numbers for women & children, advice, research, publications & further links
- YoungMinds - young people's mental health charity, site includes links for young people, parents' & professionals, magazine, manifesto, password protected site for members, publications & resources to buy, seminars & training
- your life, your future - booklet on being in care and leaving care for young people on what you should expect & what the government is doing for. Sections on being in care, leaving care, equal care for all, children & the law, safety, working with agencies + list of organisations & contacts for young people
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