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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Contact:
Telephone: 03330 066909 (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays from 9.30am – 1.00pm Tuesdays & Thursdays from 1pm – 4.30pm)
Advocacy: 07825 633801
Business: 01463 257657 Please note that this phone is staffed by non-support staff. Please do not use this number for any support or survivor related calls.
Ross-shire Women’s Aid provides information, support and temporary accommodation to women, children and young people with experience of domestic abuse.
You can contact us by phone or arrange to meet a worker at a time and place which is safe for you. We will support you whether you are still with your partner or if you are ready to leave. We can help with whatever kind of abuse you are experiencing from your partner. We will support any women whose partner or ex-partner abuses them regardless of whether their partner is male or female.
We will not judge you and we will not tell you what to do, we will help you explore the options available to you and support you to make your choices happen.
We will not tell anyone you have contacted us or what you have said.
We can provide a range of support from a one-off phone call to long-term support. We will listen to you and give you the information you need to make decisions to help make sure you and your children are safe now and in the future. For those who want to leave we can help find somewhere safe to stay. This can be with us in our ‘refuge’, through other local providers or if you need to get out of the area, we can help find you a safe place to stay in the UK.
Our refuge provides a place to stay for either a couple of days if all you need is time out or for as long as it takes for you to get re-housed. We have five flats for women with families and two bedsits.
One of our flats is designed to be accessible to women with disabilities.
Lochaber Women’s Aid operates a Women’s support service and a Children and Young Person’s service. Both of these services offer practical and emotional domestic abuse support. Alongside these services, we operate a prevention and awareness service which aims to facilitate a better understanding and awareness of domestic abuse within our community
