This page features Jewish community services with specific mental health support for young people and/or their parents/carers.
A selection of services available from local and national charities can also be found here.
If you are from an Jewish community organisation and have a service that is not listed here, please contact David.
Community Services
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.
Jewish Women’s Aid
Jewish Women’s Aid provide a children’s therapy service for children that have witnessed abuse, a domestic abuse service supporting young women from age 14 who have experienced abuse, and offer guidance to help women strengthen and improve their confidence and their self-esteem as mothers, and help their relationship with their children.
JWA’s domestic abuse helpline: 0808 801 0500
JWA’s sexual violence support line: 0808 801 0656
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.
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
