Resources for young people, parents/carers and professionals
This page contains resources and information for children and young people, parents and carers, and professionals. Click the button below that describes you best to view resources.
N.B. Our autism service now has it’s own website. To view autism resources, click here.
Children/
young people
Parents/carers
Professionals
For children and young people
Support organisations
Crisis and support organisations
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Groups to get involved with
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Further support
Further support
| Barnardos | Big White Wall | Change Grow Live | Grape Vine | |
| Harmless | Heads Together | Kooth | Living Life to the Full | The Mighty |
| The Mix | Self Injury Support |
Handy wellbeing apps
| Headspace | ThinkNinja |
Stress Heads Fun – stress release app
| Calm Harm | Anxiety management | Silvercloud | Relax | Gratitude |
| Sleep Cycle | Breathe to relax |
YouTube channels
| Treasure Box | Frozen Yoga | Les Brown Motivation | Headspace meditation |
Mental health resources
Mindfulness and relaxation resources
Click each resource to view/download.
Mindfulness audios, activity sheets and fact sheets
Mindfulness fact and activity download
Eight-minute mindful breathing audio
Ten-minute body scan audio
Ten-minute body scan download
Further mindfulness information and exercises
Mindfulness fact sheet from Mind
Mindful eating activity download
Mindful eating record download
One-minute mindfulness
YouTube videos
3-minute breathing space
Mindful meditation
Sleep away anxiety
Relaxing Disney piano music
Relaxing music for stress relief
Resources from Amazon Smile
Worksheets and newsletters
Click each resource to view/download
Service newsletters
Supporting your family’s wellbeing
How to have a conversation about mental health
Mindfulness
Five ways to wellbeing
Worksheets and activities
Goal setting
Mood diary
Managing difficult problems
My sleep is good sleep
Positive self-talk
Food and mood diary
Breathe box
YouTube videos
Resources and workbooks
Click each resource to view/download.
Wellbeing navigator for children and young people
Back to school
Primary school
Secondary school
Mental health and wellbeing survival kit
Coping with low mood – age 11+
Low mood 11+ – session 1
Low mood 11+ – session 2
Low mood 11+ – session 3
Low mood 11+ – session 4
Coping with anxiety – age 11+
Anxiety 11+ – session 1
Anxiety 11+ – session 2
Anxiety 11+ – session 3
Anxiety 11+ – session 4
Increasing self-esteem – age 11+
Self-esteem 11+ – session 1
Self-esteem 11+ – session 2
Self-esteem 11+ – session 3
Self-esteem 11+ – session 4
Wellbeing resources
Wellbeing journal – key stages 1&2
Wellbeing journal – key stage 3+
Little pack of mindfulness
Identifying and understanding emotions
For parents/carers
Training courses
- Triple P Positive Parenting – Coventry / Warwickshire
- Care for the Family
- Living Life to the Full
Carers Trust
Carers Trust is a charity for, with and about carers. We work to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems. Our vision is that unpaid carers count and can access the help they need to live their lives.’
Advice and support groups
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Counselling and bereavement
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Book resources from Amazon Smile
Amazon Smile enables individuals to support their favourite charities at no extra cost. To give to us whilst you shop just go to smile.amazon.co.uk and ensure you are supporting ‘Coventry and Warwickshire Mind’. Happy reading and thanks for your support.
Books for parents/carers to read with children aged 7 upwards
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Books for teenagers and parents/carers for reference
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For professionals
Safeguarding information
If you are concerned about the welfare of a young person, you can gain information and contact details for safeguarding frameworks by clicking here for Coventry or here for Warwickshire.
The Dimensions Tool
The Dimensions Tool is a free online tool developed by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, providing personalised information to support a person’s wellbeing and mental health. You can rate yourself or another person against several dimensions related to health and wellbeing. The tool creates a Dimensions report which provides information about self-care, local services and support.
Training
Coventry and Warwickshire Mind delivers a variety of training sessions for professionals.
Emotional wellbeing webinars – KS1 & KS2
Click ‘webinar’ and ‘workbook’ to view the resources for each session
Session 1: early warning signs – Webinar and workbook
Session 2: feelings, thoughts and behaviours – Webinar and workbook
Session 3: managing worries – Webinar and workbook
Session 4: mindfulness – Webinar and workbook
Session 5: resilience – Webinar and workbook
Emotional wellbeing webinars – KS3
Click ‘webinar’ and ‘workbook’ to view the resources for each session
Session 1: early warning signs – Webinar and workbook
Session 2: feelings, thoughts and behaviours – Webinar and workbook
Session 3: managing worries – Webinar and workbook
Session 4: mindfulness – Webinar and workbook
Session 5: resilience – Webinar and workbook
E-learning for parents and families (Solihull Approach team)
External Training to support emotional health and wellbeing for parents and families delivered by the Solihull Approach NHS team.
For emotional health and wellbeing for all children and their parents so that they can thrive as kind, sociable and emotionally aware people throughout their lives.
inourplace online courses are developed by psychologists at the Solihull Approach in partnership with health experts, schools and psychotherapists as well as parents.