Carer resources
Links to resources both online and in person found useful by members of the POPS support group for carers of people with psychosis and schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia / psychosis resources
Emergencies
- NHS emergencyIf you or someone else is in danger, call 999 or go to A&E now
- NHS 111If you need urgent help for your mental health, get help from NHS 111 online or call 111
- The Samaritans
National or Multi-area Support
- Carers UK — Information, advice and support for carers. Also has forums including for carers looking after people with mental health issues
- Compassionate Mental Health — Online and in person events, educational programmes and practices, designed to catalyse change in the mental health system and spark transformation in individuals and communities. Valued by POPS members.
- Local Healthwatches — Feedback health and social care experiences to decision makers. Some useful information.
- Making Space — Services for adults with health or social care need, including people with complex mental health needs and carers
- Mind — Leading mental health charity offering lots of information and services including telephone helplines for support, legal info and more. Local branches offer various support services like travel buddies, counselling services and peer support groups. Find your local Mind branch here
- Rethink — Leading charity for pyschotic illnesses. Loads of information, a strong carer focus, telephone and online chat helplines. Some regional services, listed under areas. Or find a local Rethink service here
Online Support for Carers
- Carers UK forum — for carers looking after people with mental health issues
- Compassionate Mental Health — Has some online events
- Rethink — Has some telephone and online chat helplines
- Safely Held Spaces — Online peer support groups for family members and friends supporting people experiencing extreme mental and emotional distress, often diagnosed as psychosis. Highly rated by POPS members
Other Useful Links
- Hub of Hope — Searchable directory of mental health support websites. Lots of filters to narrow down your search
Bristol
- Rethink Bristol Carer Service — Advice, support or information and information for mental health carers
Hampshire
- County council support for carers
- Healthwatch Hampshire Carers Zone
- Hampshire Young Carers — Consortium of young carer projects, all independent charities, working together to serve Hampshire young carers
- Inclusion Recovery Hampshire — Confidential, free and easy-to-access service to anyone living in Hampshire impacted by their own or someone else’s use of alcohol and drugs
- Mental Health Services — Loads of helpful links from SHFT Recovery College
- Portsmouth Carers Service — Portsmouth City Council help website
- Mind Solent — Hampshire branch of national charity. Various local and county-wide supports
Hertfordshire
- Rethink Companions Carer service — One-to-one carers advice, signposting and a Caring and coping course.
Lancashire
- Bolton Mental Health Carer Support from Making Space — Free one-to-one support for carers of people with mental health conditions: benefits, services, liasing with professionals etc
London
- Jami — For the Jewish community, carer support both one-to-one and groups, in person, by phone or on video calls. In Golders Green. Also services for people with psychosis.
- Soteria London — "Creates safe and welcoming spaces and activities for people in altered states, alongside local communities and allies". Includes regular Soteria in the Pub open mic events. Valued by POPS members.
Manchester
- Mental Health Carers Group Stockport — For people living in the Stockport area who care for or support loved ones or friends (of working age) living with a serious mental health condition. Active, enthusiastic group run by a POPS member
Oxfordshire
- Rethink Oxford Carers Support Service — Supports carers of people living with a mental illness
Surrey
- Action for Carers Surrey — Carers support services
- Healthwatch Surrey — Feedback health and social care experiences to decision makers. Some useful information
- Crisis Mental Health Helpliney — Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust
West Midlands
- Rethink Dudley Carer Support — Peer support, carer-led groups etc for Dudley mental health carers
West Yorkshire
- Bradford and Airedale Carer Support Service — Free one-to-one support for carers of people with mental health conditions: advice, signposting, liasing with services etc
Scotland
- Breathing Space Scotland — Free, confidential phone and web based service for people in Scotland experiencing low mood, depression or anxiety 0800 838587
- GAMH Glasgow Association for Mental Health — Support, advice, training short breaks, peer support for carers. Self-refer from Glasgow local government online form or call 0141 404 3769
- Quarriers — Support for unpaid carers in in Dumfries and Galloway, Glasgow and throughout the north east. Call or chat to local services individually.