If you or someone you care for needs help right now, if you feel like you might attempt suicide, or may have seriously harmed yourself, you need urgent medical help. Please:
- call 999 for an ambulance
- go straight to A&E, if you can
- or call your local crisis team, if you have their number
If you can’t do this by yourself, ask someone to help you. Mental health emergencies are serious. You’re not wasting anyone’s time.
Speak to someone (for more click here)
Qwell
For free, safe and confidential online counselling and wellbeing services for adults and students, contact Jami Qwell.
This is a nationwide online service provided by Qwell and offered for free to the community via Jami.
Shout
If you are struggling to cope or need immediate help, contact Shout’s 24/7 crisis text service. Text Jami to 85258
Shout are working with Jami to deliver this service to the Jewish community.
Community Services (for more click here)
Camp Simcha
Camp Simcha believes that the best way to improve the quality of life for a sick child is to focus on the whole family. They provide practical and emotional support for the parents and fun, uplifting and positive experiences for the siblings. Camp Simcha are not clinical and look holistically at the families wellbeing when a child has a physical or mental health illness.
Please call their office to discuss if they can help your family on 0208 202 9297
Jami
Mental health services for individuals and carers in the UK Jewish community. For more information click here or call 020 8458 2223
Noa Girls
Practical, emotional and therapeutic support for adolescent girls in the Orthodox Jewish Community. Click here or call 020 8731 7025
Norwood
Therapeutic support available to children and young people of school age who may be dealing with a wide range of difficulties. More details here or call 020 8809 8809
JAMH
An umbrella for most Jewish mental health organisations in Greater Manchester. One-stop shop for mental health needs, information and service provision where we can. hello@jamh.org.uk
Jewish Helpline
If you’re feeling alone, anxious, depressed, suicidal – or simply in need of someone to talk to – Jewish Helpline‘s trained volunteers offer confidential listening without judgement for the whole community.
Voluntary Sector Services (for more click here)
Hub of Hope
This website allows you to find a range of local and voluntary sector services for mental health based on your postcode. There are also information pages on specific areas such as depression, anxiety and eating disorders.
Anxiety UK
Anxiety UK is a charity for those affected by anxiety, stress and anxiety based depression. Anxiety UK offer help and are fully supported by an expert team of medical advisors.
Beat
Beat is the UK’s eating disorder charity, offering support online or by phone 365 days a year. They listen, help people understand the disorder, and support them to take positive steps towards recovery. They also support family and friends so they can help loved ones recover whilst also looking after their own mental health.
PLEASE NOTE: This page collate a range of charities and organisations to assist people more easily and quickly be aware of available services. The JLC and the Youth Mental Health Partnership hope these will be useful for those contacting them, however we are not in a position to officially endorse any specific organisation or service.
Wellbeing Advice and Resources (for more click here)
PaJeS
Mental Health and Wellbeing resources for primary and secondary schools, as well as advice for parents.
NHS Audio Guides
Mental wellbeing audio guides from the NHS on topics including low mood, anxiety and sleep problems.
Mind
Mind’s resources for young people on looking after your wellbeing.
Support lines directory
Find almost 50 support line services including Jewish charities, general advice, as well as specific support for bereavement, addiction, debt and anxiety from across the wider voluntary sector.
The Youth Mental Health Partnership
Our vision is for every child and family in our community to have access to clearly understood, considerate, comprehensive and effective services that advance the recovery of young people who experience a mental health problem.
This partnership aspires to establish the foundations for progress towards this vision and generate learning for how these providers, and organisations within and beyond our community, can be part of meeting the growing mental health needs for children and young people within the UK Jewish community.
About the jlc community portal
The JLC connects and coordinates the Jewish charitable sector, strengthens and supports leadership across our community, and magnifies and amplifies the individual voices and collective voice of our member organisations. Now is the time for cooperation and collective responsibility.
Working alongside the Board of Deputies at the beginning of the pandemic, the JLC regularly brought together CEOs from over 60 organisations. Our teams have been working with many more parts of the community every day during this crisis.
This portal is a development of that work, collating advice, resources and access to communal life online, in one place, for everyone across the Jewish community.
For more information on the JLC, visit our website at www.thejlc.org
