Useful Links

Family Service

Family Service Directory for local services
https://directory.hertfordshire.gov.uk/kb5/hertfordshire/directory/family_home.page?familychannel=0

A-Z of hertsdirect
www.hertsdirect.org/atozofservices/

For Parents
http://www.hertsdirect.org/your-community/fis/

Adult Service

Adult Care- Hertfordshire
http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/healthsoc/supportforadults/

Big White Wall
http://www.bigwhitewall.com

Dad Talk
http://www.dadtalk.co.uk

Everyman Project
http://www.everymanproject.co.uk

EACH – Education Action Challenging Homophobia
http://www.eachaction.org.uk/

Families Need Fathers
http://www.fnf.org.uk

Gamcare
http://www.gamcare.org.uk

Gingerbread
http://www.gingerbread.org.uk

The Grandparents Association
http://www.grandparents-association.org.uk

Local Health Services
http://www.hertspartsft.nhs.uk/our-services/area-directory-and-contacts/

Learning Disability (Adults)
http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/healthsoc/supportforadults/learningdis/

MATCH
http://www.matchmothers.org

Mediation in Hertfordshire
https://directory.hertfordshire.gov.uk/kb5/hertfordshire/directory/home.page

Mind
http://www.mind.org.uk

MOSAC
http://www.mosac.org.uk/

NAPAC
http://www.napac.org.uk

Prisoners Families (Action for)
http://www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk/

Relate Counselling
Information and support for all relationships. National: http://www.relate.org.uk Central and North Herts: http://www.relatecnh.org.uk
Dacorum, Watford and Three Rivers: http://www.relatewatford.org

Samaritans
http://www.samaritans.org

The grandparents association
http://www.grandparentsplus.org.uk/

Local health service
http://www.hpft.nhs.uk/services/community-services/wellbeing-service/

ADHD

ADDvance
http://add-vance.org/

NHS Choices
http://www.nhs.uk

Advice (general)
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/

Community Legal Advice
https://www.gov.uk/civil-legal-advice

Advocacy (getting your voice heard)
Search ‘advocacy’ on the Hertfordshire Directory: http://directory.hertsdirect.org/kb5/hertfordshire/directory/home.page

Autism

SPACE
http://www.spaceherts.org.uk

ADDvance
http://add-vance.org/

HARC – Hertfordshire branch of the National Autistic Society (NAS)
http://www.harc-online.org.uk

National Autistic Society
http://www.autism.org.uk

Spectrum Girls (Herts)
http://www.aspergers4herts.org/spectrum-girls/

Aspergers 4 Herts
http://www.aspergers4herts.org/

Anger

NHS Choices
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/dealing-with-angry-child.aspx

Supernanny
https://www.supernanny.co.uk/Advice/-/Parenting-Skills/-/Discipline-and-Reward/Dealing-with-a-very-angry-child.aspx

Behaviour

Challenging Behaviour Foundation
http://www.thecbf.org.uk/

Family Lives
http://familylives.org.uk/

Mencap
http://www.mencap.org.uk

Parent TV
http://www.parentchannel.tv

Understanding Childhood
http://www.understandingchildhood.net

Behaviour for Learning
http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/behaviour/

BME

Asylum Aid
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/.

Refugee Council
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/

BME Achievement
http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/bme/index.shtml

Bereavement

Childhood Bereavement Network http://www.childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk/

Child Death Helpline
http://www.childdeathhelpline.org.uk/

The Compassionate Friends
http://www.tcf.org.uk/

Cruse Bereavement Care
http://www.cruse.org.uk/

RD4U
http://hopeagain.org.uk/

SANDS
http://www.uk-sands.org/

Winston’s Wish
https://www.winstonswish.org.uk/

Child Bereavement UK
http://www.childbereavement.org.uk/

More Hertfordshire services:
Search ‘bereavement’ on the Hertfordshire Directory: http://directory.hertsdirect.org/kb5/hertfordshire/directory/home.page

Bullying

Herts for Learning
http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/hwb/bullying/

Anti-bullying Alliance
http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/

Beat Bullying
http://www.beatbullying.org/ 

Bullying UK
http://www.bullying.co.uk/

Childline
https://www.childline.org.uk

Kidscape
https://www.kidscape.org.uk/

Stonewall
http://www.stonewall.org.uk/category/bullying

Carers & Young Carers
http://www.carersinherts.org.uk/how-we-can-help/young-carers

Childcare

Family Information Service:
http://www.hertsdirect.org/your-community/fis/

Local Children’s Centres may also be able to support and advise.
http://www.hertsdirect.org/actweb/postcode/postcodecc.cfm

Hertfordshire
http://www.hertsdirect.org/services/youngpeople/

Brook
http://www.brook.org.uk/

CFAB (Children & Families Across Borders)
http://cfab.org.uk/

ChannelMogo
http://www.channelmogo.org/

ChildLine
http://www.childline.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx

Children First
http://www.childrenfirst.nhs.uk/

Childnet International – Know IT All
http://www.childnet.com/young-people

Youth Connexions
http://www.connexions-hertfordshire.co.uk/

FRANK
http://www.talktofrank.com/

Children & Young People Sites

Get Connected
http://www.getconnected.org.uk/

Law Stuff
http://www.lawstuff.org.uk/

Look After Your Mate
http://www.studentminds.org.uk/look-after-your-mate.html

National Youth Advocacy
http://www.nyas.net/

RD4U
http://www.rd4u.org.uk/

Rethink
http://www.rethink.org/living_with_mental_illness/caring/index.html

Sibs
http://www.sibs.org.uk/

Sex and Young People
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Sexandyoungpeople/Pages/Sex-and-young-people-hub.aspx

The Hideout
http://www.thehideout.org.uk/default.aspa

The Site
http://www.thesite.org/mental-health

Thinkuknow
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

UKCOSA (UK Council for International Student Affairs)
http://www.ukcisa.org.uk

Youngcarers.net
http://www.youngcarers.net/

Babble Carers
https://babble.carers.org/

Herts Young Carers
http://www.hertsyoungcarers.org.uk/

Online Skype Hangout – this is an online Skype group running every Thursday between 11am-1pm to facilitate social connection amongst young people across the county consisting of informal chat and some fun structured activities to foster positive mental health (available for young people aged 15-early 20’s). Please see link for referral info: https://www.hertsmindnetwork.org/young-peoples-online-group.

Young People Online Wellbeing Courses – these are online webinar courses for young people aged 15-18. We have received positive feedback around these and will be putting more on over the coming weeks/months around different topics – please see website link on details of how you can refer young people or how they can refer themselves: https://www.hertsmindnetwork.org/wellbeing-through-learning-children-and-young-people. We are also keen to understand what courses CYP would helpful so if you have any feedback or young people who wish to support us developing these, please let us know.

Children and Young Peoples Helpline – Our Children and Young Peoples helpline is available to any young person aged 10-17 for support with any mental health need in the moment. This is a really exciting development allowing instant support over the phone for local young people. Please take a look at this link to our website for opening times and the helpline number: https://www.hertsmindnetwork.org/young-peoples-helpline

Drug and Alcohol support

Spectrum Families and Young Peoples Service – Hertfordshire

Gambling support

NHS Support

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/gambling-addiction/

Gamcare

www.gamcare.org.uk/

Big Deal (link for young people)

www.bigdeal.org.uk/

Healthy Living

Bezee Bodies

www.bezeebodies.com