Helpful Links
These are links to helpful organisations and their Web sites where you can find support, advice and information.
Helplines | Parenting | Practical Advice | Mental/emotional health | Health (general) | Disability
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- Telephone Helplines Association
- You can use this site to search for a helpline and to find out important
information you will need to bear in mind if you are planning to call a helpline.
http://www.helplines.org.uk/ - Samaritans
- Website of the Samaritans. Support by telephone and e-mail for those who are suicidal or in crisis.
http://www.samaritans.org.uk/ - ChildLine
- Website of ChildLine - a national charity providing a free 24hr helpline to children and young people in the UK. The site provides advice on all sorts of issues from bullying to contraception.
http://www.childline.org.uk - TALK adoption helpline
- TALKadoption - UK helpline for young people (up to 25yrs old) dealing with
adoption - call them on 0808 808 1234 - free and confidential, or visit their
Web site and chatroom.
http://www.talkadoption.org.uk/
Links for Parents, Guardians & Children
- BBC Parenting Website
- The parenting section of the BBC website - lots of information and advice about parenting, including how to look after yourself!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/ - ABC of Parenting
- Comprehensive resource for parents from pregnancy to childcare. Covers issues
such as motherhood, fatherhood, marital problems, adoption and loss of a child
(to name a few).
http://www.abcparenting.com/ - Gingerbread
- Website of Gingerbread - the UK based support organisation for single parents.
http://www.gingerbread.org.uk
Links for practical advice
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- http://www.nacab.org.uk/
- Office of Fair Trading
- The Office of Fair Trading plays a key role in protecting the economic welfare
of consumers, and in enforcing United Kingdom competition policy.
http://www.oft.gov.uk/ - National Missing Persons Helpline
- NMPH is a UK based charity that not only helps find missing people but also
supports family and friends left behind as they await.
http://www.missingpersons.org/ - Legal Services Commission
- The Legal Services Commission has replaced the Legal Aid Board, visit their
Web site for information about how to get help with legal costs etc.
http://www.legalservices.gov.uk/ - Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- http://www.youth-justice-board.gov.uk/
- Homeless pages
- Homeless Pages is a comprehensive guide to information about single homelessness in the UK. Provides an introduction to homelessness, plus a database of resources, including research reports, directories, training courses and Web sites.
http://www.homelesspages.org.uk/ - Buy.co.uk
- buy.co.uk was conceived by The Cost Reduction Partnership, the UK's leading
business purchasing consultancy. The site offers cost saving opportunities
for consumers and businesses.
http://buy.co.uk/ - StudentUK
- Student UK is the national student Web site Information and advice about all
student issues including events and entertainment.
http://www.studentuk.com/
Links to help with emotional/mental well being
- National Electronic Library for Mental Health
- Website offering information about a wide range of mental health problems. Part of the National Electronic Library for Health, an NHS initiative.
http://libraries.nelh.nhs.uk/mentalhealth - Mind
- Web site of the national mental health charity, Mind.
http://www.mind.org.uk/ - Online Dictionary of Mental Health
- There are no definitions here; instead there are links to many sites offering different viewpoints on a very wide range of issues in mental health. You have to scroll past quite a lot of advertising at the top of the page to get to the actual subject index halfway down.
http://human-nature.com/odmh - The Centre for Recovery
- This is a UK information and advice centre for those suffering from drug or
alcohol abuse and their family and friends. Offers many links to other Web
sites.
http://www.recovery.org.uk/ - The Samaritans
- Support for people who are suicidal or despairing. An English Language Email
service is available to anyone needing emotional support throughout the world.
http://www.samaritans.org.uk/ - Young Minds
- The mental health charity for children and young people. The Web site has
information and advice about mental health in children and young people along
with information about Young Minds publications. Also includes the
full text from some of their leaflets about various mental health problems/issues
relevant to children and young people.
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/ - @ease
- Web site created by Rethink (formerly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship) to help young people
deal with the pressures of everyday life.
http://www.rethink.org/at-ease/
Health Links
- National Electronic Library for Mental Health
- A vast array of information about health and the NHS for public, patients and professionals.
http://www.nelh.nhs.uk/ - NHS Direct Online
- The web site of NHS Direct - the national NHS helpline that can answer all your health related questions.
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/ - Patient.co.uk
- This is a UK directory that aims to help non-medical people find information
about health issues. They link to hundreds of UK websites that provide health
and illness information.
http://www.patient.co.uk/ - Talk to Frank
- Information about illegal drugs, their effects, composition, risks etc.
http://www.talktofrank.com/
Support for people with a disability
- You're Able (formaly Disability Net)
- The Internet resource for people with disabilities.
http://www.youreable.com/ - DIAL UK
- Disablement Information and Advice Lines. DIAL UK is the national organisation
for the DIAL network and the only UK organisation providing services to disability
information and advice providers. Includes links to useful sites.
http://www.dialuk.info
