Gloucestershire Helplines & Online Support
A quick reference guide featuring helpful websites, helplines and apps.
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Local and National Helplines & Online Support
We have put together a guide of local and national helplines, online support and apps that can be used to support your mental health. You can view and print off the PDF to find out how to access them. Download the full PDF here. You can click the links in the PDF to go directly…
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Young Person’s Guide to Coping with Challenges
How I cope: a young person’s guide is a helpful new resource created by young people for young people about how young people cope and like to receive support. It was developed by CPRU, with the HeadStart Learning Team, and the HeadStart National Young People’s Group. Download the guide here. Animations Click here to view…
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Advice for Ukraine Refugees
Many of the children and families arriving in the UK who have fled the conflict in Ukraine will have experienced extreme trauma, having lost loved ones, seen death and injury, seen their homes destroyed and fled to safety. Barnardo’s has set up a free helpline, staffed by English, Ukrainian and Russian speakers, to offer support…
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Consent for Kids
“It’s not about getting the answer you want, but listening to the one you get.” That’s what this new animated video produced by Aardman on behalf of Gloucestershire’s Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) , hopes to teach Gloucestershire’s young people, as part of a commitment to tackle Violence and Intimidation against Women…
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Therapy as Storytelling: The power of creativity as a tool to overcome adversity.
TIC+ Counsellor Morgan Koronis discusses the use of creativity in counselling and the power storytelling can have on young people’s mental health in this piece for International Children’s Book Day. An Alternative Means to Expression With a background in dramatherapy, I bring a lot of my own passion for the intentional healing power of creativity…
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Advice for Young People worried about the War in Ukraine
It’s important to remember that it’s okay and perfectly normal to be worried, angry or upset by the news about the war in Ukraine. You are not alone in these feelings, most young people and adults feel the same. It’s a lot to take on board, especially because it comes after experiencing all the uncertainty…
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Advice for Parents, Carers and Professionals: Helping Young People Distressed by the War in Ukraine
As a parent, carer or professional, you are probably conscious of the distressing impact the news from Ukraine may be having on the wellbeing of young people. Dr Chloe Constable, TIC+ Clinical Advisor and Research Lead, has put together some ideas about how to support young people at this challenging time for the global community.…
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Disordered Eating Behaviour’s and Social Media
Alicia Bell, Assistant Psychologist at TIC+, explores the relationship between disordered eating and social media, and the impact it may have on young people’s eating behaviours in her article for Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2022. Within recent years there has been a notable rise in the number of young people demonstrating disordered eating behaviours and…
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For the love of food
Janie Dimopoulos considers how we may inadvertently inflict our values on others in the language we use around food. As we approach Eating Disorder Awareness week, I am mindful of practices in schools, which have been introduced with good intentions and with health and wellbeing in mind, that children and adolescents tell us are negatively…
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Gender Identity explained
Transgender and gender identity resource from InfoBuzz and Young Glos This booklet includes advice and information collated by young people in Gloucestershire who have first-hand experience of exploring their own gender identity. The aim of this booklet is to raise awareness of gender identity, provide definitions and explain terms and to give advice and guidance to…
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