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This list is by no means exhaustive (we are adding to it all the time), if you have a service that you think should be added then please contact us at admin@studyvox.com nightline Website: www.nightline.ac.uk/Home.aspx Information Nightline is a listening, emotional support, information and supplies service, run by students for students and open at night when few other services are available. The first Nightline was set up at the University of Essex by a Samaritans' director almost forty years ago to reduce student suicide. Nightline services now operate in over forty universities in the UK and beyond thanks to an incredible team of over 1,500 student volunteers. All offer a telephone helpline and many also offer drop-in, email listening and 1-1 online listening services. Some also offer supplies, which includes giving out free condoms, pregnancy tests and attack alarms. Contact Please note the association itself does not offer a listening service. If you are a student and would like to talk, please click here to find your Nightline... For all enquiries: enquiries@nightline.ac.uk Write: Nightline association c/o London Nightline University of London Union Malet Street London WC1E 7HY BullyingUK Website: www.bullying.co.uk Information Bullying UK is the new name for the award-winning charity Bullying Online which was founded in 1999 by journalist Liz Carnell from Harrogate and her son John, as a direct result of their experience of dealing with school bullying, which included taking successful legal action against an education authority. Contact help@bullying.co.uk Write: Bullying UK 702 Windsor House Cornwall Road Harrogate HG1 2PW Alcoholics Anonymous Website: www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/ Information If you seem to be having trouble with your drinking, or if your drinking has reached the point where it worries you a bit, you may be interested to know something about Alcoholics Anonymous and the A.A. programme of recovery from alcoholism. After reading this brief outline, you may decide that A.A. has nothing to offer you. Should this be the case, we suggest only that you keep an open mind on the subject. Consider your drinking carefully in the light of what you learn from this website. Determine for yourself, whether or not alcohol has truly become a problem for you. And remember that you will always be most welcome to join the thousands of men and women in A.A. who have put their drinking problems behind them and now lead "normal" lives of constructive, day-by-day sobriety. Contact help@alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk Telephone: 0845 769 7555 You will speak to someone who knows the problem from personal experience (Local rate charges apply) The A.A. website does not collect any personal information from your computer. SupportLine Website: http://www.supportline.org.uk/ Information Supportline offer confidential emotional support to children, young adults and adults by telephone, email and post. Supportline works with callers to develop healthy, positive coping strategies, an inner feeling of strength and increased self esteem to encourage healing, recovery and moving forward with life. We also keep details of counsellors, agencies and support groups throughout the UK. Contact You can phone Supportline on their Helpline number: (020) 8554 9004 or Or E-mail info@supportline.org.uk Sexual abuse Abused Empowered Survive Thrive Website: http://www.aest.org.uk/helplines/ Information This is a listing of help lines for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and or rape. Many of them also offer one to one therapy and group therapy for survivors of sexual abuse Samaritans Website: http://www.samaritans.org/ Information Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Whatever you're going through, whether it's big or small, don't bottle it up. We are here for you if you're worried about something, feel upset or confused, or just want to talk to someone. They offer service by telephone, email, letter and face to face in most of their branches. Samaritans is available to anyone in the UK and Ireland. If you live outside of the UK and Ireland, visit http://www.befrienders.org/ to find your nearest helpline. Contact Phone: UK: 08457 90 90 90 ROI: 1850 60 90 90 Email: jo@samaritans.org Write: Chris, P.O. Box 9090 Stirling, FK8 2SA Rapecrisis Website: www.rapecrisis.org.uk/ Information Rape Crisis (England and Wales) provides co-ordination for the national network of Rape Crisis Centres across England and Wales. Rape Crisis Centres provide a range of specialist services for women and girls that have been raped or experienced another form of sexual violence - whether as adults or as children. On this website you will find information about rape and sexual violence and details of your nearest Rape Crisis Centre if you need support. There is also information for family, friends, students and professionals. Rape Crisis Centres are not just for women in 'crisis', many women contact us years, or even decades, after they have been raped or sexually abused. The women who work and volunteer in Rape Crisis Centres will not judge you or your actions. We believe rape is never a woman's fault. We know it is difficult to make the first step, but please try and make contact with your nearest Rape Crisis Centre for support. Contact Co-ordinator: Chris Bennett (post funded by the Home Office) Email info@rapecrisis.org.uk or chris@rapecrisis.org.uk Policy Officer: Angie Conroy (post funded by Home Office & Lankelly Chase Foundation) Email policy@rapecrisis.org.uk or angie@sericc.org.uk UK National Drugs helpline Information The National Drugs Helpline is a 24-hour, seven-days a week, free and confidential telephone service that offers advice and information for those who are concerned, or have questions, about drugs. The service is available to anyone. Callers might be drug users, recovering or past users, friends, family, colleagues or contacts of drug users. If you have any questions or concerns which urban75 has been unable to answer - or if you just want to find our a bit more, the National Drugs Helpline is just a 'Freefone' call away (within the UK only). As well as information over the phone, the National Drugs Helpline can send out a wide range of printed literature which is free of charge. The Helpline not only provides advice but also confidential counselling to callers who think they have a drug related problem. All staff employed on the Helpline are experienced drug workers. Each has a minimum of two years relevant experience, and many are qualified counsellors. Contact Telephone: 0800 77 66 00 Help and advice is also available in the following languages:
Sexual health website Website: http://www.condomessentialwear.co.uk/ Information There are lots of stories about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), some true, some not. This site will give you the facts and it also has a free helpline Contact sexual health helpline: 0800 567 123 - free and confidential Click here for emergency info... Papyrus Website: http://www.papyrus-uk.org/ Information UK resources and support for those dealing with suicide, depression or emotional distress - particularly teenagers and young adults. PAPYRUS is a voluntary UK organisation committed to the prevention of young suicide and the promotion of mental health and emotional wellbeing. Contact: admin@papyrus-uk.org Helpline:- HOPELineUK 0800 068 41 41 Mon-Fri 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Weekends 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Admin telephone: 01282 432555 Mon-Fri 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Our registered office address is: PAPYRUS prevention of young suicide Lodge House, Thompson Park Ormerod Road Burnley Lancashire BB11 2RU Fax: 01282 432777 MIND Website: http://www.mind.org.uk/ Information Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. We work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress by:
In all our work we promote our values: informed, determined, diversity, integrity and partnership. Mental health problems can affect anyone, rich or poor, young or old, shattering the lives of those affected and the lives of the people close to them. One in four of us will experience a mental health problem at some point in our lives. Each year more than 250,000 people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals and over 4,000 people take their own lives Contact info@mind.org.uk Mindinfoline Monday to Friday - 9am to 5pm Telephone: 0845 766 0163 Cruse Bereavement Care Information Cruse Bereavement Care exists to promote the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services. Contact Young Person's freephone helpline: 0808 808 1677 e-mail: info@rd4u.org.uk RD4U - our special website for children and young people: http://www.rd4u.org.uk/ The StudyVox Team |
