Childrens Mental Health

General telephone and online support

With YOUth

Herts Mind Network with YOUth service (5-18 years) – Children and young people’s digital wellbeing service, including a helpline, instant messaging, one-to-one and group support, and digital therapeutic gaming app.

Website: www.withyouth.org

Telephone: 0208 189 8400 (2 – 10pm, Monday to Friday)

Google Play: Lumi Nova Digital Therapeutic Gaming App ( for children aged 7 – 12 years)

App Store: Lumi Nova Digital Therapeutic Gaming App ( for children aged 7 – 12 years)

Health for Teens

Website: www.healthforteens.co.uk

Further resources

Happy Maps – Mental health resources for parents, carers and young people.

Just Talk Herts – Young people’s emotional wellbeing information and signposting to help in Hertfordshire.

Face-to-face support

Hertfordshire County Council services for young people (11 – 17 years)

Providing youth work projects, information, advice, work-related learning and wider support for young people.

Website: www.servicesforyoungpeople.org

Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) service (5 – 19 years)

Provides early support to children and young people with common emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, including behavioural difficulties, anxiety and low mood.

Website: www.hct.nhs.uk

Apps

Clear Fear

Clear Fear is an app that uses the evidence-based treatment CBT to focus on learning to reduce the physical responses to threat by learning to breathe, relax and be mindful as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions.

Google Play: Clear Fear

App Store: Clear Fear