Advice & Support
BEAT
Phone: 0808 801 0677 Youth Line: 0808 801 0677
When: Helplines are open 365 days a year: 3pm-10pm
What: Beat provides helplines for adults and young people offering support and information about eating disorders. These helplines are free to call from all phones.
Blaenau Gwent Families First Team
Where: Heart of the Valleys Integrated Children’s Centre, High Street, Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, NP13 3BN
Phone: Freephone 08000 32 33 39 (Blaenau Gwent Family Information Service)
E-mail: fis@blaenau-gwent.gov.uk
Website: Families First
When: Mon - Thurs 9am - 5pm, Fri 9am - 4pm
What: Families First is all about providing support to the whole family. In Blaenau Gwent the programme has two ‘Community Hub’ teams based in Blaina and Ebbw Vale which:
Work with your family to identify any areas that they can help with, Support you to decide how they can best support you and your family, Complete a request for services with you if you need some short term help, Discuss a JAFF (Joint Assessment Family Framework) with you if your support needs to come from a number of different services, Make sure these services work together to offer the best support for your family through a ‘Team Around the Family’
The programme also offers a range of support including: Managing children’s behaviour, Ante natal support, Coping with teenagers, Breastfeeding support and baby massage, Housing support needs, Debt and help with budgeting and money, Online counselling for under 25’s, Accredited courses
Child Line
Where: NSPCC Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH.
Phone: 0800 1111
E-mail: Follow link online, you will need to register but this can be done anonymously
Website: https://www.childline.org.uk/
When: 24hrs a day 365 days of the year
What: Childline is yours – a free, private and confidential service where you can be you. Whatever your worry, whenever you need help, however you want to get in touch. We're here for you online, on the phone, anytime.
DEWIS
Website: https://www.dewis.wales/
When: 24 hours a day online signposting service
What: Dewis Cymru is THE place to go if you want information or advice about your well-being – or want to know how you can help somebody else. When we talk about your well-being, we don’t just mean your health.
We mean things like where you live, how safe and secure you feel, getting out and about, and keeping in touch with family and friends. No two people are the same and well-being means different things to different people. So Dewis Cymru is here to help you find out more about what matters to you.
FRANK
Phone: 0300 123 6600 Text: 82111
E-mail: http://www.talktofrank.com/contact
Website: http://www.talktofrank.com/
When: It is available 24 hours a day and online and by text message.
What: FRANK is a free drug advice service that is aimed at parents and children in particular.
Language Line
Where: 25th Floor, 40 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5NR
Phone: 0800 169 2879
E-mail: enquiries@languageline.co.uk
Website: https://www.languageline.com/uk
When: 24 hrs a day
What: LanguageLine Solutions telephone interpreting service enables you to communicate in over 240 languages 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. No matter where you are in the world, we can connect you to a professionally qualified interpreter using any phone in under a minute.
Each day thousands of organisations across a wide range of industries and sectors choose to use LanguageLine Solutions to help them communicate with limited English speakers.
Phoenix Project / MIND
Where: New Community Centre Orchard Street, Ebbw Vale NP23 4ET
Phone: 01495 311445 or 01495 757393
E-Mail: reception@torfaenmind.co.uk
Website: Phoenix Project - Torfaen Mind
When: Every Thursday 10am - 1pm
What: Drop in advice service for people experiencing mental health problems; appointment not required. MIND exists to help people achieve better mental health and wellbeing and their aim is to help people to help themselves to get the support that they need.
The Mix
Where: 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DH
Phone: 0808 808 4994
E-mail: http://www.themix.org.uk/get-support/speak-to-our-team/email-us
Website: http://www.themix.org.uk/get-support
What: The Mix is a UK based charity that provides free, confidential support for young people under 25 via online, social and mobile.
Whether you’re 13, 25, or any age in between, the Mix are there to take on the embarrassing problems, weird questions, and please-don’t-make-me-say-it-out-loud thoughts you have. Providing information and support for you to deal with it all.
They'll connect you to experts and your peers who’ll give you the support and tools you need to take on any challenge you’re facing – for everything from homelessness to finding a job, from money to mental health, from break-ups to drugs.
A free and confidential multi-channel service. That means that you choose how you access their support, without the worry of anyone else finding out. Whether it be through articles and video content online or their phone, email, peer to peer and counselling services – they'll put the control in your hands.
The Website boasts that they have all the best information to make the right choices for yourself.
'Life is hard, but support doesn’t have to be. They’ve got this'.
Transitions Counselling & Training Services
Where: First Floor, 13 The Circle, Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, NP22 3PS
Phone: 07854 144744 (or text)
E-mail: transitions09@aol.com
Website: Transitions
When: By Appointment or drop in
What: Counselling for Adults to help deal with:
Domestic violence, Sexual and emotional abuse, Depression and anxiety, Loss and bereavement Counselling for Children, Young People and/or Families to help dela with:
Attachment issues, Bullying, Self esteem, Sleep disorders, Bereavement, Depression & anxiety, Sexual abuse. Basic training courses in life skills to help deal with: Anger management, Stress Management, Basic english, Basic maths