Online services for children and young people

Healthy Minds for Young People
​​​​​​​Information and links to lots of organisations, helplines and online services with trained staff who can help you.

Bradford Youth Service
We provide things to do, someone to talk to and places for young people to go.

Building Connections
This is an NSPCC online service for young people up to the age of 19, empowering them to find a way through loneliness

Young Minds
Mental health support for both young people and parents.

The Mix
The Mix is a support service that can help people under 25 take on any challenge they are facing – from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break ups to drugs.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS)
Helps children and young people who may be having mental health problems.

Local Offer Website
Bradford Council Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) information website for Children, Young People with SEND 0-25, their Parent/Carers and Professionals.

Urgent help

Is it a medical emergency? Call 999 or go to A&E if someone’s life is at risk. For example, if they have seriously injured themselves, taken an overdose or you do not feel you can keep yourself or someone else safe.

If you are feeling extremely anxious and/or having panic attacks, please contact Guide-Line. Phone lines are open between 8am and midnight every day on freephone 08001 884 884 or click here to chat online.

Anyone thinking of suicide, self-harming, or who is seeing and hearing things can call First Response on  0800 952 1181.

Papyrus – Prevention of Young Suicide 
If you are under 35 and feel that life is not worth living any more, call Papyrus’s HopelineUK from 9am to 10pm weekdays and 2pm to 10pm on weekends. Call HopelineUK on 0800 068 41 41