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Useful Resources
SUPPORT AND TRAINING FOR YOU

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Helpful Resources for Families
Overview | Self-harm: assessment, management and
preventing recurrence | Guidance | NICE The following resources can help families feel more
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng225 confident about supporting their child:

Crisis Tools. • Combined Minds
The tools to help you support young people in crisis: A free app helping parents and carers support
https://crisistools.org.uk/ young people’s mental health
https://combinedminds.co.uk/
RCGP Mental Health Toolkit • Coping with Self-harm, a guide for parents
https://www.rcgp.org.uk/clinical-and-research/ and carers
resources/toolkits/mental-health-toolkit.aspx
• Free online course helps parents discuss self-
harm with their children.
Free E-Learning for GPs
Dealing with self-harm presentations in primary care. • Free e-training by the Zero Suicide Alliance
https://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/enrol/index.php?id=166 (20 minutes)
• Self-harm: Parents’ experiences - Overview
Zero Suicide Alliance (healthtalk.org)
FREE online training courses teach you the skills
and confidence to have a potentially life-saving • NSPCC self-harm support for families
conversation with someone you’re worried about. • Young Minds Parents support line and
https://zerosuicidealliance.com/training webchat

• MindEd for Families website
Papyrus, prevention of young suicide.
HopelineUK • Calm Harm is a free app that helps you manage
https://www.papyrus-uk.org/papyrus-hopeline247/ or resist the urge to self-harm
Call: 0800 068 4141 • 7 ways to support children and young people
Text: 07860039967 who are worried or anxious (annafreud.org)
Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org
https://www.annafreud.org/schools-and-
colleges/resources/7-ways-to-support-children-
MindEd is a free educational resource on children, and-young-people-who-are-worried/
young people, adults and older people’s mental
health. • How to Talk to Your Child about Mental
MindEd Health | YoungMinds
https://www.minded.org.uk/ https://www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/how-to-
talk-to-your-child-about-mental-health/
Doctors Support Network • Families Under Pressure - Maudsley Charity.
Peer support for doctors and medical students with https://maudsleycharity.org/
mental health concerns Doctors Support Network familiesunderpressure/
https://www.dsn.org.uk/support-for-doctors

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