What we do
Barnardo’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Service provides mental health and wellbeing support to children and young people aged 5-24 (up to 26 depending on life circumstances) across the whole of Fife.
This service aims to equip young people and their families with the necessary skills to help improve their mental health and overall emotional wellbeing. We offer both 1:1support, some groupwork to support mental health and wellbeing and deliver capacity building for professionals at times throughout the year.
Our 1:1 support is person-centred, and the young people are supported to create and work towards their own goals. This is a short-term service, and we can offer up to 10 therapeutic intervention sessions to support individuals to improve their mental health. We can also offer support to parents to enable them to feel more equipped at supporting and improving their child’s mental health.
Enquiries for our support can be made by anyone (yourself, a parent/carer or professional). Please get in touch to see if we can support you.
We have trained workers who offer a safe space to talk and help children and young people to explore the root causes of their difficulties, whilst promoting healthy coping strategies to help them manage their emotions.
We work in Fife - Northeast Fife, Leven, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
We offer support with
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Body image
- Cyberbullying
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Friendship problems
- Isolation
- LGBTQ+
- Loss
- Low confidence
- Low mood
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Online safety
- Parental mental health
- Relationships
- Resilience
- Self-esteem
- Self-harm
- Stress
We provide support using
- 1:1 support
- Art therapy
- Drop ins
- Email support
- Emotional support
- Face to face sessions
- Family support
- Group support
- Online support
- Parenting programmes
- Phone support
- Referrals to other services
- Training
We work with
- 13 years and under
- 14 to 18 years old
- 19 to 26 years old
We also support parents, carers, and professionals
We can help with
- No child should be left to deal with poor mental health alone so we provide services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing. We have centres where children and young people can visit and have a trained worker they can trust and talk to. We help them build their confidence and get to the root of their difficulties so they can feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful.
- Find out more about Mental health
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