Useful links to other sites
Alcohol issues
Talk about Alcohol
www.talkaboutalcohol.com
TALK ABOUT ALCOHOL aims to give you the FACTS. What is alcohol? How does it affect young people? Which laws should you know about? Knowing the score will help you to make your own decisions about alcohol in the future.
Drink Aware
www.drinkaware.co.uk
Facts about alcohol. Useful tips and hints on how to stay alcohol aware
Bereavement
Child Bereavement
www.childbereavement.org.uk
The UK’s leading charity that supports families and educates professionals both when a child dies
and when a child is bereaved.
Child Death Helpline
www.childdeathhelpline.org.uk
The Child Death Helpline is a helpline for anyone affected by the death of a child of any age, from prebirth to adult, under any circumstances, however recently or long ago.
Caring
www.act.org.uk
ACT is the UK wide charity working to achieve the best possible quality of life and care for every child and young person who is not expected to reach adulthood
Young carers
www.youngcarers.net
A website that supports young people who assist with caring for someone with an illness or disability.
Disability issues
Contact a Family
www.cafamily.org.uk
Contact a Family provides support, advice and information for families with disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability.
Contact a Family became a registered charity in 1979 and we have over 30 years of experience of working with families with disabled children.
Disability Alliance
www.disabilityalliance.org
Disability Alliance is a national registered charity, which works to relieve the poverty and improve the living standards of disabled people. Our eventual aim is to break the link between poverty and disability.
Together for Disabled Children
www.togetherfdc.org
Together for Disabled Children (TDC) is a partnership between Serco and Contact a Family.
The partnership provides a comprehensive range of skills, sector knowledge and experience of delivering national programmes. In particular, Contact a Family has been, for many years, at the forefront of work to improve the participation of parents of disabled children in the development and delivery of responsive services.
Scope
www.scope.org.uk
SCOPE's vision is a world where disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfill their life ambitions as non-disabled people.
Whizz Kidz
www.whizz-kidz.org.uk
There are an estimated 70,000 disabled children and young people in the UK waiting for a wheelchair that fits their young lives. That’s where we come in. Whizz-Kidz provides disabled children with the essential wheelchairs and other mobility equipment they need to lead fun and active childhoods.
Leonard Cheshire
www.lcdisability.org
Leonard Cheshire Disability supports over 21,000 disabled people in the UK and works in 52 countries.
REACT Charity
www.reactcharity.org
React - Rapid Effective Assistance for Children with Potentially Terminal illness is a dynamic charity working to improve the quality of life for financially disadvantaged children with life-limiting illnesses living in the UK. Our work is unrivalled by any other organisation and our passion and belief that every child should have comfort, dignity, and the opportunity to participate in life as fully as possible is our driving force.
Drugs information
Talk to Frank
www.talktofrank.com
A website that gives young people information and advice.
Eating disorders
www.b-eat.co.uk
Beat is the leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. Beat is the working name of the Eating Disorders Association, and we continue to build on the strong foundations of the past 20 years of work.
Eating disorders are a serious mental illness affecting 1.6 million people in the UK. Beat provides help lines for adults and young people, online support and a UK-wide network of self-help groups to help people beat their eating disorder
General information
Child Line
www.childline.org.uk
A website for young people in the UK who need to discuss any problems. Free and confidential helpline 0800 1111
Connexions
www.connexions-direct.com
A website that aims to offer information and advice to help young people make decisions.
Get Connected
www.getconnected.org.uk
Emotionally supporting the young person as they explain what's going on
Health
Young Health Talk
www.youthhealthtalk.org
Website about young people’s real life experiences of health and lifestyle.
Kids Health
www.kidshealth.org
A website for young people on a wide range of illnesses
Hygiene information
www.hygieneexpert.co.uk
Staying healthy is of paramount importance to us all. With this in mind Hygiene Expert aims to provide useful, easily accessible information that can help readers make more informed decisions and choices about personal health matters, the health of their children and the wellbeing of family pets
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
www.muscular-dystrophy.org
A National Charity that supports those affected with muscle diseases
Muscular dystrophy and related muscle diseases cause muscles to waste and weaken. More than 70,000 babies, children and adults in the UK are a
Personal Assistants
PA Pool
www.papool.co.uk
PA Pool provides members with a brows able database of PAs (also known as Personal Assistants or Carers) and PA Users (also known as Personal Assistant Employers or PAE), where information about each person, plus who or what they are looking for, can be accessed at the click of a button. Unlike conventional advertising, you can register and search the database whether you are recruiting or looking for work and then contact available people instantly.
Penderels Trust
www.penderelstrust.org.uk
Penderels Trust is a registered charity and a limited company. It was originally set up in 1988 to assist people in Coventry with physical disabilities to lead more independent lives.
The Rowan Organisation
www.therowan.org
The Rowan Organisation is a registered charity, not for profit and user-led organisation which provides disabled and older people with access to information, services and resources in order to increase their opportunity for independence and enable them to make informed choices about their future
Self harm
The Site
www.thesite.org
A comprehensive web site that covers many aspects of growing up including self-harm issues.
