This section has details on access to immediate advice and support; including online services and support lines.
If you are concerned that you or someone in your care is in immediate danger, or requires urgent medical help, please call 999 for an ambulance, go straight to A&E (if you can), or call your local crisis team or find details for local NHS urgent help here.
If you can’t do this by yourself, ask someone to help you. More details on emergency advice from Mind are available here.
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For free, safe and confidential online counselling and wellbeing services for adults, contact Jami Qwell
Kooth students in partnership with Jami provides free, safe and anonymous online counselling and support for students
If you are struggling to cope or need immediate help, contact Shout’s 24/7 crisis text service. Text Jami to 85258
Papyrus are the young suicide prevention society. HOPElineUK 0800 068 4141 (Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm and 7pm to 10pm |
2pm to 5pm on weekends)
Samaritans provide confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair.
Phone: 116 123
(free 24-hour helpline)
CALM is the Campaign Against Living Miserably, for men aged 15 to 35. 0800 58 58 58
(daily, 5pm to midnight)
The Mix is aimed at people under 25. Helpline open between 4pm and 11pm, 7 days a week, crisis text service open 24/7 days a week.
0808 808 4994
Text THEMIX to 85258
Family Lives offer advice on all aspects of parenting, including dealing with bullying.
0808 800 2222
(Monday to Friday, 9am to 9pm | Saturday to Sunday,
10am to 3pm)
No Panic offer support for sufferers of panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as a course to help overcome your phobia or OCD. 0844 967 4848 (daily, 10am to 10pm)
Addiction Helper have fully trained addiction counsellors 24 hours a day and offer advice on both NHS and private treatment options. This service is 100% free confidential.
0800 024 1488
GamCare provide information, advice, support and free counselling for the prevention and treatment of problem gambling. Our expert services are confidential and non-judgemental. Face to face and Online services available. 0808 8020 133
StepChange provide free, confidential advice and support to anyone worried about debt.
0800 138 1111
(Monday – Friday 8am – 8pm and Saturday 8am – 4pm)
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
