Getting support for my child/young person - Directory of Services

At Butterfly Counselling, we have many years of experience providing counselling therapy with a specialist understanding of counselling people autism and neurodiversity.

Daisy Chain runs a variety of social clubs and youth groups for young people aged 5-17.

Five Lamps provide a wide range of services to over 25,000 socially and financially excluded individuals across the North East and Yorkshire.

Kooth is an online counselling and emotional well-being platform for children and young people that is accessible by laptop, phone, tablet and computer. The platform is free, safe, confidential and anonymous and offers various forms of support to young people such as; live chat platform with Kooth counsellors, articles written by young people and daily journal entry.

Daisy Chain is proud to announce that on the 1st of February 2021 we will be launching a specialist independent living training and advice service. Residents with Autism and associated neurodiversity needs, residing within the Tees Valley will for the first time, have access to specialist targeted support.

The South Tees Changing Futures programme is a joint initiative by Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland Councils enabling all local organisations to work in partnership to better support those who experience multiple disadvantages. The South Tees programme is one of fifteen partnerships nationwide that successfully bid for funding from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and The National Lottery Community Fund.

At The Bungalow Partnership we support children, young people, adults and families across Teesside. We do this by providing a wide range of creative therapies, parenting, mentoring and emotional wellbeing support aimed at improving the emotional wellbeing of local people and supporting families to enjoy positive relationships with each other.

The Link is a North East based professional mental health and emotional wellbeing provider.

The Mix is a UK based charity that provides free, confidential support for young people under 25 via online, social and mobile.

The Unicorn Centre, a registered charity, is a purpose built riding for the disabled facility which offers riding therapy and learning and training opportunities for over 200 disabled adults and children from the Tees Valley area each week. Opened in 1998, the Centre has become an established part of the local community, with a strong contingent of about 100 local volunteers who assist with riding lessons each week.