Mental Health and Wellbeing

Mind (BLMK)

Mind BLMK (Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes) provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.

CHUMS

CHUMS currently delivers nine services across Luton & Bedfordshire, although not all are available in both areas. Supporting children and young people is at the heart of everything they do, and they are passionate about supporting as many children and young people as possible.

Telephone: 01525 863 924

Website: www.chums.uk.com/bedfordshire-services

Email: info@chums.uk.com

ShinyMind

Used by clinicians and now prescribed by clinicians, ShinyMind is a mental health and wellbeing app that has been co-designed with NHS staff and is now available to you as a wellbeing prescription, to help you live better with your condition and feel happier.

Website: www.shinymind.co.uk

Bedfordshire Wellbeing Services

The Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service offers a range of free and confidential talking therapies and specialist support to help you feel better.

Telephone: 01234 880 400

Website: www.bedfordshirewellbeingservice.nhs.uk

Samaritans

Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Telephone: 116 123

Website: www.samaritans.org

Email: jo@samaritans.org

Rethink

Rethink provide expert, accredited advice and information to everyone affected by mental health problems.

Telephone: 0300 5000 927

Website: www.rethink.org

Email: info@rethink.org

CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) delivered by East London NHS Foundation Trust is part of a wider network of services that offer help and support to children and young people who have mental health difficulties and their families/carers.

Telephone: 01234 893 301

Website: www.camhs.elft.nhs.uk

Bedfordshire and Luton Recovery Service

In partnership with East London Foundation Partnership Trust (ELFT) and The University of Bedfordshire, Recovery Colleges offer a wide range of free courses and workshops to everyone living and working in Bedfordshire and Luton, which are recovery focused, and aim to provide strategies and techniques for individuals to use in their daily lives to promote self management.

Telephone: 01234 263 621

Email: elft.recoverycollege@nhs.net

Bedfordshire Talking Therapies

The service provides help to people aged 18 and over who are experiencing common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders. The main treatment offered is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and a range of different therapy modalities through individual or group sessions.

Kooth

Free anonymous online chat for young people to discuss your mental health issues.

Website: www.kooth.com

Social Prescribing Dunstable & District CAB

The Social Prescribing service is designed to help people with a range of problems that are not medical, but have a direct impact on their sense of wellbeing.

We will listen to you; find out what is important to you and start to make an action plan to tackle your worries at a pace that suits you. It is designed for people who may be socially isolated or have practical and emotional needs that affect their health and is a free service.

They offer advice and support on a range of issues including claiming benefits, money worries, housing, relationships, social isolation and employment issues.