Portus
Info:
Portus is a website resource to support children and young people in Kingston and Richmond who are harming themselves. With the right support, any young person can be helped to find the way forward.
On the website you can find clear information and tools to help you:
- Understand stress and anxiety
- How to cope with these feelings
- What you can do when these feelings build up and feel out of your control
- Find out where and how you can ask for different kinds of confidential help.
There is also information which:
- Helps you to understand self harm and suicide, including the self-harm cycle, and distraction techniques to help yourself.
- Provide separate sections for parents, education, social care and health services. Portus was developed in Richmond with a range of experts from the NHS, other partner organisations, and young people.
- Lists local support services in RIchmond, Wandsworth and Kingston, as well as other national support
Go to the Portus website https://www.richmond.gov.uk/portus/young-people
Services:
Emotional Health and Wellbeing
- Information and Advice
- Mental Health Services
Opening Hours:
Please note: The website is not checked on a daily basis. Some service details may not reflect real time / last minute changes. If in doubt, please call or email the service directly before travelling to avoid disappointment.