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Ways to help my wellbeing

Welcome to the ‘ways to help my wellbeing’ page where if you feel you have a concern about your own or your child’s mental health, no matter how small, that you would like some guidance and/or support with.

On this page

Autism/ADHD 
Drugs/Alcohol/Gambling 
Feeling Anxious/worried
My relationships/friendships
Sleep
Ways to help my wellbeing
Young Carers

NOTE – Whilst aiming to provide the best quality information possible, we do not recommend or endorse any particular service which is listed, offer advice about choice of service and have no responsibility for any support provided.

ARCH – Autism Resource Coordination Hub

Category:

  • Autism/ADHD

Mental Health Support:

  • Peer support groups, support for parents, carers and family

Eligibility: 

  • Family member or carer of a young person who has Autism

Age Range:

  • All ages

Referral Route:

  • Self or agency

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Social Work

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The Beacons (alcohol and drug support)

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • Local Recovery Hubs providing support and activity programmes, telephone support, group activity

Eligibility: 

  • Problematic substance use

Age Range:

  • 16 years plus

Referral Route:

  • Self-referral by phone or drop in to local centre’s

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Third Sector

Locality:

  • Blantyre, Lanark, Cambuslang, East Kilbride

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (Liber8)

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We are with you for young people

Category:

  • Drugs/alcohol/gambling

Mental Health Support:

  • Phone or online chat to help stop or cut down on drug or alcohol use. Support is also available for other problems a young person may be having

Eligibility: 

  • Worried about own or someone else’s drug or alcohol abuse

Age Range:

  • under 16 years

Referral Route:

  • Self-referral

Website:

Contact Details:

  • N/A

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Skills Exchange

Category:

  • Feeling Anxious/worried

Mental Health Support:

  • Personal development group sessions include: money advice, drugs and alcohol awareness, smoking and vaping awareness; positive relationships; sexual health; support with digital skills and online platforms, literacy and numeracy as required

Eligibility: 

  • Socially isolated, anxious, have additional support needs, have very low confidence and need intensive and tailored support to help them re-engage and take their next steps

Age Range:

  • 16+ years

Referral Route:

  • Open

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • East Kilbride, Lanark

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Skills Exchange

Category:

  • My relationships/friendships

Mental Health Support:

  • Support for separated parents which can include child consultation for 8 years and above (occasionally younger). The opportunity to meet with a specially trained mediator and discuss their own thoughts and feelings on their parents separation and what they would like to see in the future. Child Contact Centre: Supervised Contact, Supported Contact and Handover Contact. Time to Talk Child Counselling Service: play therapy/art therapy for younger children with more traditional counselling for older children

Eligibility: 

  • Separated families resident in South Lanarkshire

Age Range:

  • 5 – 18 years and adults

Referral Route:

  • All including self-referral

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social work

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire
  • Work takes place at Burnbank Family Centre (Saturday or Sunday) or office premises at Regents House, Hamilton

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector (Relationships Scotland)

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InTandem

Category:

  • My relationships/friendships

Mental Health Support:

  • Intandem provides 1-1 mentoring for young people aged 8 – 14 who are looked after at home to help them to develop a sense of self-worth, be less isolated, make positive use of their leisure time and to gain relief from some of their hardships and difficulties

Eligibility: 

  • Care experienced

Age Range:

  • 8 – 14 years

Referral Route:

  • Referrals for intandem should come from social services for young people aged 8-14, who are under a supervision order and remaining in the family home

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • COVEY

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Sleep Action

Category:

  • Sleep

Mental Health Support:

  • General information on web site, Individual sleep counselling, Training for professionals, Sleep advisors are available to offer individual one-to-one advice and support regarding any child in Scotland, to their parents and carers, or young people themselves

Eligibility: 

  • Child or young person with an ongoing sleep issue

Age Range:

  • 18 months – 18 years

Referral Route:

  • Open

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Social Work

Locality:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Kooth

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Online self-help, moderated peer support and professional support from accredited counsellors and emotional wellbeing practitioners. Anonymous registration via Kooth.com provides access to the site which includes articles, forums and 1:1 live chat and messaging

Eligibility: 

  • No threshold or criteria

Age Range:

  • Available for all 10 – 18 year olds (up to 26 for care experienced)

Referral Route:

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Education

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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Healthy Valleys

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Support for communities in rural South Lanarkshire, Opportunities to improve health and wellbeing in areas of deprivation or where there are service gaps. Resilient Families supports women through pregnancy and families with children under 5; delivering intensive 1:1 support and a range of educational parenting programmes

Eligibility: 

  • Resident in rural South Lanarkshire

Age Range:

  • All ages

Referral Route:

  • open via website

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • third sector

Locality:

  • Rural South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • third sector

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Healthy and Happy

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Range of community-based social support

Eligibility: 

  • Focus on residents of the Rutherglen and Cambuslang area Focus on residents of the Rutherglen and Cambuslang area

Age Range:

  • All ages

Referral Route:

  • self

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • Cambuslang and Rutherglen

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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VASLAN- Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire

Third sector interface. Providing connections to numerous services around mental health

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • A variety of mental health support can be found on the Locator tool by area and age

Eligibility: 

  • See each service criteria

Age Range:

  • All ages

Referral Route:

  • See each service criteria

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture (SLLC)

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • In partnership with NHS creating health intervention pathways to physical activity to support health and wellbeing. Focus on early intervention and rehabilitation as part of service and physical activity prescription

Eligibility: 

  • Dependent on programme

Age Range:

  • Dependent on programme

Referral Route:

  • Referral must come from health professional

Website:

Contact Details:

For Cambuslang & Rutherglen

Lead Agency:

  • South Lanarkshire Leisure & Culture

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • South Lanarkshire Leisure & Culture

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Youth, Family, Community Learning

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Offers a wide range of services (some issue-based, some targeted at particular groups, some universal)

Eligibility: 

  • Resident in South Lanarkshire. Some services will have particular criteria if the work is based around an issue or is targeted to a particular section of society

Age Range:

  • Parents, 5 – 25 years

Referral Route:

  • self

Website:

Contact Details:

  • N/A

Lead Agency:

  • Education

Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Education

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Talk2Us

therapeutic counselling service and group work programme for parents/guardians/caregivers and other family members

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • We are here to support you if you or the child in your family is experiencing mental health problems and you are worried about the impact on your family’s wellbeing. If you are a family member with a mental health problem, you may be worried about the impact of your illness on a child or young person. You might be experiencing: anxiety, stress or low mood, low self-esteem or a loss of confidence, panic disorder or a sleeping disorder, trauma-based issues, relationship issues including divorce, separation, fractured relationships or mixed families, feeling overwhelmed

Eligibility: 

  • Open to all

Age Range:

  • Parents with children up to the age of 18 (or 26 if they are dependent)

Referral Route:

  • Self or professional referral by Request for assistance (see website)

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

 Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Liber8

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Wise Group

Category:

  • Ways to help my wellbeing

Mental Health Support:

  • Relational Mentoring support services in the community

Eligibility: 

  • N/A

Age Range:

  • 16 years plus

Referral Route:

  • Self-referral

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Third sector

Locality:

  • North & South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Pan Lanarkshire

 

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Action for Children Young Carers Service

therapeutic counselling service and group work programme for parents/guardians/caregivers and other family members

Category:

  • Young Carers

Mental Health Support:

  • Support to complete a young carers statement, personal support advice and guidance individual and group support, short breaks and activities, help to access specialist services, help to access universal services and drop-in support sessions at high schools and the Barncluith Centre base

Eligibility: 

  • Children and young people who look after or help to look after someone in their family who is unwell or disabled, including children caring for parents who have mental health or substance misuse problems

Age Range:

  • 8 – 18 years

Referral Route:

  • Self or professional referral by Request for assistance (see website)

Website:

Contact Details:

Lead Agency:

  • Action for children

 Locality:

  • South Lanarkshire

Delivering Organisation:

  • Community Voluntary Sector

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