The Silver Line operates the only confidential, free helpline for older people across the UK that’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year.
We also offer telephone friendship where we match volunteers with older people based on their interests, facilitated group calls, and help to connect people with local services in their area.
Phone – The Silver Line Helpline – 0800 4 70 80 90
Website – The Silver Line
The Highland Substance Awareness Toolkit is an online library that provides information in relation to drugs and alcohol in Highland. Topics covered include Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, New Psychoactive Substances (NPS/’legal highs’), Caffeine and Blood Borne Viruses (BBV).
Information in the toolkit is categorised as:
Professionals
Aimed at teachers, youth workers and other professionals working to educate children and young people in Highland. This section of the toolkit contains up to date information, advice and lesson plans to assist with the delivery of substance misuse education and the associated Highland Substance Misuse Framework.
Parents and Carers
Aimed at parents or carers of young people living in Highland. This section of the toolkit contains up to date information and advice targetted specifically at parents and carers on the themes of drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
Young People
This section of the toolkit contains up to date information and advice targeted specifically at young people living in Highland on the themes of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and e-cigarettes.
Highland Substance Awareness Toolkit (highlandsubstanceawareness.scot.nhs.uk)
Their website provides a range of services and support for Scotland’s 56,000 autistic people and their families and campaign at national and local level to help create a society that works for autistic people.
Post Diagnosis Support Service
The new Post Diagnostic Support Service is aimed at young people aged 12 to 18 who have received a diagnosis in the last two years and is open to anyone who lives in Scotland.
Website: National Autistic Society (autism.org.uk)
Working together to improve student mental health support across Scotland.
Think Positive aims to help create a more joined up student mental health support sector and to improve student wellbeing.
They don’t provide mental health support directly but can signpost you to places that can help.
They provide a ‘Think Positive Hub’ which links students to all of the projects, services, resources and news relating to student mental health. It’s designed for students and people who support them.
Website: Think Positive
High Life Highland develops and promotes opportunities in culture, learning, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing across nine services throughout the whole of the Highlands, for both residents and visitors.
On their website you’ll find everything from the hugely popular High Life leisure card (which offers affordable access to dozens of leisure facilities), to how to get the best out of our Highland Libraries, what happens at the Highland Archive & Registration Centre or a host of other aspects of cultural, sporting, leisure and learning life in Highland.
Website: Highlife Highland (highlifehighland.com)
Whether you’re living with a mental health problem or supporting someone who is, accessing information about a condition is vital. SAMH has developed a series of information resources for you.
We all have mental health. This site is a wealth of information and resources to help us understand it better and look after it.
Contact:
Website: Scottish Association for Mental Health (samh.org.uk)
A large amount of information and resources covering topics like;
You can also take an individual Stress Test and be guided to helpful information and advice
Telephone: 0203 142 8650
Email: info@stress.org.uk
Website: Stress Management (stress.org.uk)
A range of content designed to give you more information about mental health and to help you to look after your mental health.
Podcasts, videos, inspiring stories and information about getting help if you’re struggling.
Website: Mental Health Foundation (mentalhealth.org.uk)
Information and resources for survivors of sexual violence.
Get in touch any day between 5pm – midnight:
Our helpline offers confidential short-term, crisis and initial support by phone, email and text. Our phone and email support is free and texts will be charged at your normal network rate.
We support people of all genders living in Scotland aged 13+ who have been affected by sexual violence. It doesn’t matter what happened or how long ago, and you don’t have to talk about anything you don’t want to. We support survivors, as well as family, friends and supporters.
We can also put you in touch with local Rape Crisis centres or other services if you need longer-term support.
We can arrange for free language interpreters, including British Sign Language, to access support if your first language is not English. More information on Deaf access to support.
Text support
Texts are charged at your normal network rate and your number is not visible to us when you text. For more information about confidentiality including our text support Find out more about confidentiality, including our text support, here.
Email support
Email support is free and your email address will be visible to us when you email. We aim to reply to all emails as soon as possible, and no later than 4 days. Find out more about confidentiality, including email support, here.
Telephone: 08088 01 03 02
Text: 07537 410 027
Email: support@rapecrisisscotland.org.uk
Website: Rape Crisis Scotland (rapecrisisscotland.org.uk)
At RASASH we provide free, confidential, person centred emotional and practical support, information and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence and abuse aged 13+, their non-abusing partners, family and friends.
We can also provide consultation, information, guidance and training to staff from other agencies who work with survivors of sexual violence. More Information
We work from the basis that each person’s circumstances, experiences and feelings are different and unique to them. We believe that survivors know best what their own needs are, and how they need to be supported. With this in mind, we offer support tailored to your needs. We can provide support whether your experience of sexual violence was recent or a long time ago, and whether or not you reported it to police.
All our work is based on a person centred, non-judgemental approach, and we aim to create a space that is safe, confidential, supportive, accessible and inclusive.
We offer a telephone support line, face to face support, information and advocacy, text and email and skype support. We can also offer the chance to meet other survivors in a group.
At present we can offer face to face support from our centre in Inverness. If you live further afield and can’t travel to Inverness, we can offer you telephone, email or skype support.
If you have chosen to report a sexual offence to police we can support you with that, and we can be there throughout the process and attend court with you.
Many people are unsure about whether or not to report to police and we can support you whilst you consider your options, and longer term, whatever your decision about reporting.
We can support you even if your experience of sexual violence or abuse was a very long time ago.
We have range of information booklets and leaflets covering issues such as child sexual abuse, self harm and managing symptoms of trauma.
Our staff are all female, and when we are supporting women or girls our centre is a woman only space.
Website: RASASH (rasash.org.uk)
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