Please find below resources to support with wellbeing
West Sussex Mind
West Sussex Mind have lots of services for children, young people and parents available. Please see the links below:
Support for children themselves aged 8 and above in Adur:
Support for parents and carers who are supporting children/young people age 5 - 18 with their mental health:
https://www.westsussexmind.org/help_and_support/specialist-services/our-parenting-support
Support for parents struggling with their mental health who have a child under 5. Parents can access support from pregnancy, after birth and until their youngest child turns 5:
https://www.westsussexmind.org/help_and_support/specialist-services/families-with-young-children
Reaching Families
Who are Reaching Families?
Reaching Families is a parent-carer led charity that supports parents and families of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in West Sussex.They do this through a number of services including the delivery of information, training and peer support. You can find out more about them and details of all of theirr services on their website here - Reaching Families.
They have recently increased their training delivery and support groups and have a wide range of free workshops, courses and groups that you may find helpful.
What is Umbrellas?
Support from fellow parent-carers is one of the most effective ways in which parents and carers of children with special educational needs and disabilities build resilience and emotional wellbeing.
To help parents build networks of mutual support Reaching Families currently runs seven parent support groups in Shoreham, Burgess Hill, Horsham, Littlehampton, Chichester, Worthing, and online via Zoom. Known as Umbrellas, their groups provide an informative, supportive, relaxed and non-judgmental environment within which parents can swap life experiences, share hints and tips, seek advice and share information and resources.
Here is a link to a short animation explaining everything they offer: https://youtu.be/xuZkTgsRr5U
Links to their services can be found below:
- Factsheets - Reaching Families Fact Sheets
- Animations - Reaching Families Animations
- Training - Reaching Families Training
- Benefits Advice Service - Reaching Families Benefits Advice Service
- Befriending - Reaching Families Face-2-Face
- Umbrellas Support Groups - Reaching Families Umbrellas Parent Support Group
- NDP Navigation Service - Reaching Families NDP Navigation Service
- Facebook Group - Reaching Families Facebook Group
Parenting Smart (Place2Be)
The children's mental health charity, Place2Be, has a website aimed at helping parents with typical situations they can find themselves in with their children.
Advice can be found on over forty topics including:
- Understanding sibling rivalry?
- My child is lying, what does it mean, what should I do?
- My child has trouble going to sleep
- My child says ‘I hate you!’
- Cultural identity: who am
The Parenting Smart website can found here: https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/
Thought-Full: Mental Health Support Teams in Schools
Thought-Full are The Mental Health Support Team in Schools in West Sussex. They are a team of practitioners working in primary and secondary schools supporting school aged children up to 18 years old with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
Please see their website for some helpful websites and contact numbers that you can access for your own support, alongside that of your child’s. You can find them at: www.westsussex.gov.uk/Thought-Full Or contact us at: Thought-Full@westsussex.gov.uk
A guide for parents and carers
A video on Emotion Coaching - parent/carer session
A video on Building Resilience - parent/carer session
Please find below a link to a series of short CAMHS webinars for parents, covering ADHD, ASC, Anxiety, Eating disorders, Self harm/ Suicidal ideation and sleep.
The School Nursing Team/Healthy Child Programme offers support to children and young people who are experiencing mild to-moderate mental health difficulties. The offer is for 6 sessions of focused work to support the child or young person with their emotional wellbeing and is based on the principles of Motivational Interviewing. For primary aged children this work is delivered to the parent/carer, whilst for secondary aged pupils the work takes place directly with the young person themselves. For more information please contact the HCP.
Please click on the link below for more information:
SchoolPing
Click on the link below to access School Ping – the schools messaging service