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The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families have created self-care plans for children and young people for the summer. They include a services of steps to help them create a simple self-care plan that works for them. It helps children identify activities that they can use to support their mental health.

Young Carers in Northumberland have recently completed a survey identifying the hardest things about being a young carer, what they would like from a young carers service, what support they would like from schools and what support they would like from home.

Mental Health Awareness Week takes place this year from 9th May to 15th May, and schools and colleges across the UK will be thinking of ways to mark the week with their students.

The Be You team are developing new frameworks to support schools, children young people and parent carers through periods of change.

Mental health support teams have now been launched in schools in two Northumberland towns as part of a nationally-funded pilot scheme. By December next year, all of the county’s mental health services will see children and young people within four weeks of referral.

Kooth.com is an online mental wellbeing community which was launched in Northumberland in June. It provides free, safe and anonymous support for children and young people between 11 and 25.

Children and young people aged between 11-25 years in Northumberland can now access free, anonymous and safe support from Kooth for their mental health and wellbeing whenever they need to. Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has commissioned the service, which is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and requires no waiting lists, referrals or thresholds.

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week (18-24 May), the NHS in Northumberland is highlighting the importance of reaching out and getting help when needed.

Tomorrow (Thursday 23 January), NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) launches a new scheme to improve mental health support for children and young people in the county.