Support for children and young people who are self-harming

Cheshire and Merseyside Suicide Prevention Partnership

This website provides a range of guidance and resources for professionals working to support children, young people and families with self-harm and suicide prevention. These include child friendly safety plans, coping strategies and apps to support wellbeing. Visit the website for more information. 

Calm Harm app

Calm Harm is a free app that helps you manage or resist the urge to self-harm. Visit the Calm Harm website for more information.

Young Minds – Coping with self-harm

Are you a young person aged under 25 and self-harming or thinking about self-harming? Visit this website to find out what self-harming is and how to stop self-harming. You can also read about managing scars from self-harm and how to get help.

NHS

The NHS website has information about where to get help for self-harm.

Self-harm safe kits

Self-harm safe kits have been developed with a number of resources including information for parents and carers, self-harm safe plans and more. You can view and download the self-harm safe kit resources below:

How i overcame self-harm

A short video published on the BBC ideas website, explores how three young people describe the coping mechanisms that helped them recover from self-harm.

 

IMPORTANT: If someone's life is in danger - for example they have seriously harmed themselves or taken a drug overdose - call 999 for an ambulance or go straight to A&E (the closest to St Helens is Whiston Hospital)