Resources for parents

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FINDING THE RIGHT SUPPORT FOR YOU

 

Here are some useful contacts if you have any worries about your health and wellbeing:

 

If you need to speak with someone urgently or if there is immediate risk of serious harm or injury:

  1. Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) call the 24-hour support hotline – 0800 731 2864 or visit https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-psychological-therapies-service/
  2. The Samaritans – call 116 123 or visit https://www.samaritans.org/
  3. Mind – call 0300 123 3393 or visit https://www.mind.org.uk/
  4. UK Emergency Services – call 999 or 111
  5. Attend your local Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department

 

IT’S GOOD TO TALK

 

Additional contacts for parents:

  1. Your General Practitioner (GP), Health Visitor (HV) or Community Midwife (CMW)
  2. Your local IAPT services –  https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-psychological-therapies-service/
  3. Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) – https://www.arc-uk.org/
  4. Cocoon Family Support – https://cocoonfamilysupport.org/
  5. Family Action – https://www.family-action.org.uk/
  6. Fathers Reaching Out – http://www.reachingoutpmh.co.uk/
  7. Hub of Hope – https://hubofhope.co.uk/
  8. Mind – https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/postnatal-depression-and-perinatal-mental-health/perinatal-anxiety/
  9. National Childbirth Trust (NCT) – https://www.nct.org.uk/