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