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Support Services & Advice

Please find here a list of websites and agencies in the local area who may also be able to offer support and advice to our families.

Bullying

Counselling Services

Bedfordshire Open Door (counselling for young people):
www.bedfordopendoor.org.uk

Bedfordshire Well-being Service:
www.bedfordshirewellbeingservice.nhs.uk

CHUMS Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Service:
www.chums.uk.com
Tel: 01525 863924

Hear2Listen:
www.hear2listen.org.uk

REFLECT (Text messaging service):
Text reflect to 85258

Relate Bedfordshire and Luton:
www.relatebedsandluton.org.uk

Sorted Counselling Services:
E-mail: admin.sorted@talktalk.net
Tel: 01582 891435 appointments (Mon-Thur)

Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services:
www.youthaccess.org.uk

Cyber Safety

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP):
www.ceop.police.uk

Childnet International:
www.childnet-int.org

Internet Matters
www.internetmatters.org

Internet Watch Foundation:
www.iwf.org.uk

Kidsmart
www.kidsmart.org.uk

Safe4Me:
www.safe4me.co.uk/resources

Think U Know?
www.thinkuknow.co.uk

UK Safer Internet Centre:
saferinternet.org.uk

Domestic Abuse

Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership: 

https://bedsdv.org.uk/

Drugs and Alcohol Services

ADFAM:
www.adfam.org.uk

Aquarius:
aquarius.org.uk/contact-us

National Drugs Helpline (FRANK):
www.talktofrank.com
Tel: 0800 776 600 (24 hrs free advice)

NHS choices
www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-advice/alcohol-support

LGBTQ

Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH):
www.eachaction.org.uk

Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (FFLAG):
www.fflag.org.uk

Stonewall:
www.stonewall.org.uk

Mental Health

CHUMS:
www.chums.uk.com

Mind BLMK
www.mind-blmk.org.uk

Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide
www.papyrus-uk.org

Rethink Mental Illness
www.rethink.org
Tel: 0845 456 0455

Samaritans
www.samaritans.org

Young Minds
www.youngminds.org.uk
Young Person’s Helpline: 020 7336 8445
Parent Helpline: 0808 802 5544

Young Person's Sanctuaries in Bedford, Luton and Central Beds
www.mind-blmk.org.uk/how-we-can-help/crisis-support/young-persons-sanctuary/

Well-being

Be Body Positive
www.bebodypositive.org.uk

Better Days BLMK
betterdaysblmk@hotmail.com