This toolkit for parents and carers is designed to help provide a glossary of facts, practical advice to look for signs of their child’s involvement in violence, knife crime or gangs, as well as tips on how to speak to their child and how they…
Category: Youth
I Gotta Feeling: Top Tips For Feeling Good booklet, for youths
This booklet lists some things that young people have found helped them feel better when they felt sad, stressed or angry and some things that help you feel good generally. Contents – tips covered: Talk to someone Do something you enjoy Find ways to chill…
How to talk to your child about knives (a parents’ guide)
This leaflet holds practical advice for parents/carers on what they can do to reduce the likelihood of a child carrying a knife. The guide aims to give some pointers on what to look for, how to raise the subject and who to contact if parents…
Adolescent family violence intervention program: Step-UP
Step-Up is a nationally recognized adolescent family violence intervention program designed to address youth violence toward family members. Violent behavior includes threats, intimidation, property destruction, degrading language and physical violence. The goal of Step-Up is for youth to stop violence and abuse toward their family…
Monitoring Your Teen’s Activities: What Parents and Families Should Know
The leaflet outlines steps which parents/carers should take to monitor their teens and help protect them from risky behaviors. Click here to view/download
Home Truths – app teaching about living on your own
About to move out for the first time? Whether you’re moving into student accommodation or your own place, living away from home can be an eye opening and daunting experience. Home Truths is here to teach you EVERYTHING you need to know about living on…
Coping with pressure at school (Teen’s guide)
It takes up five days a week and there are all the pressures of schoolwork, homework, making friends and taking exams. It can seem scary. But we all have bad days (even if we don’t show it!) and on the whole, school is great with…
Heads Up! A toolkit of sessions to run with young people to promote mental health & emotional well-being
Promoting emotional well-being should be at the heart of all work with young people. The sessions in this toolkit aim to: • Build resilience in young people so that they are better equipped to deal with the challenges that come their way • Raise awareness…
Teen relationship abuse: Safety Plan
A practical guide to creating a safety plan with teenagers who are in a relationship with an abusive partner. It covers the following areas: Staying safe at school Staying safe at home Staying safe emotionally Getting help in your community These are things I can…
Lifeskills: Get Ready For Adult Life – Young People’s Pack
This large workbook has been put together to give young people information and advice to help prepare them for adult life. It covers 10 areas of life skills including Money, Education, Family/Relationships, Accommodation, Looking After Yourself, Having Your Say, Legal Rights, Being in Care, and…
Young people’s safety questionnaire/toolkit
The questionnaire can be used by professionals working with young people aged between 13 and 18 as a way of opening up discussions about safety in a non-accusatory manner. The idea behind this tool is that it gives young people information about risky situations, whilst…
The Teen Relationship Workbook: for professionals helping teens to develop healthy relationships and prevent domestic abuse; 68 worksheets
The Teen Relationship Workbook is for professionals working with young people to prevent or end relationship abuse. The workbook can be used in individual sessions, educational settings andpsych-educational or support groups. Although the workbook is certainly appropriate as a means of general education on relationship issues,…
What Is Complex Trauma: A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them
The booklet offers information about complex trauma, how it can impact youth, both good and harmful coping strategies, and ways to improve. This guide is for youth who have experienced complex trauma or who know someone who has. Clinicians, caregivers, and other adults can also…
The Anxiety Workbook For Teens: Activities to Help You Deal With Anxiety & Worry
This 186-page workbook is a fantastic resource containing many exercises and activities designed to help teens think about the patterns of their anxiety and the circumstances around it. This is followed by a lot of practical advice on how to change their habits and boost…
Straight Talk about Teens booklet: Realistic Ideas and Advice for Parents of Older Teenager
The goal of this booklet is to help parents/carers understand their teenagers better, and to offer some useful ideas about how to talk with them, listen to them and continue to be a positive influence as they move toward adulthood. Although every family will experience…
Helping teenagers to cope with Domestic Abuse booklet
It is hoped that the information in this booklet will in some way help teenagers and parents to live a life free from violence and abuse. It will also help parents to understand: • The ways domestic abuse affects young people and their development. •…
Neglect matters: A guide for young people about neglect
Guide for 11–17 year-olds which tells young people what neglect is, how to recognise it, who they can turn to for help. Click here to view/download
Growing up drug free: A parent’s guide to prevention
‘Growing up drug free: A parent’s guide to prevention’ provides a user-friendly guide for what to do and how to communicate about the harmful effects of illicit drugs and alcohol to children from elementary through high school. It is organized in 6 major sections: What you…
When Your Brother or Sister Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens
This colourful and easy to read guide is for young people who have a brother or sister with cancer. It gives information and advice on: Ways to deal with changes the young person’s family may go through Finding support and talking with friends What the…
Lemons or Lemonade?: An Anger Workbook for Teens
This workbook is for young people 13 and older who express their anger in ways that harm others, themselves, animals, and personal property. The workbook is especially helpful for children who have experienced complex trauma and are hurt, angry, and bereft as a result. Adults…
Sexual exploitation: Sex, Secrets and Lies – Guide for young people
The guide examines the risks young people face and explore ways of keeping safe. The colourful, easy to read booklet is illustrated and has been designed to be used by young people as well as family members and carers who are concerned about the safety…
Solution-focused practice – A toolkit for children & young people (44 tools, games, activities, exercises)
The toolkit presents ideas for worksheets and activities developed by NSPCC practitioners to be used with children and young people aged 5-19 years old during solution-focused work. Solution-focused practice concentrates on helping people move towards the future that they want and to learn what can…
Favourite therapeutic activities for children, adolescents and families: Practitioners share their most effective interventions
This free book lists various activities which enable social workers to gather information about the family they work with, creating an opportunity to express their feelings and identifying areas of change or improvement to be addressed. It also includes activities focused on therapeutic treatment interventions and ideas…
Growing up, sex and relationships information leaflet for disabled young people
This 16-page leaflet is for disabled young people. It has information that might help them to find answers to some questions they might have about sex and relationships. There is lots of information and advice available for young people about sex and relationships and all things…
Booklet about dementia for children and young people – The milk’s in the oven
This booklet provides information about dementia for children and young people. It talks in straightforward language about what dementia is and about the impact it has on the person having dementia. It also enables a child/young person to consider their own feelings and what they…
Children’s booklet – Feel safe at home: What to do if violence is happening around you
A compact and user-friendly booklet for children aged seven to twelve. It talks in straightforward language about what domestic violence is, how it can make children feel, and how and where they can get help. The booklet explains that domestic violence is not their fault,…
Children’s Wishes and Feelings Shield: To help children participate in social care and protection assessments
This worksheet assists social workers to gain a child’s views in regards to what is working well in their life and family, what is not working well, what their wishes are and what their suggestions to make things better for themselves are.
The Adolescent Wellbeing Scale
The questionnaire contains 18 questions, each relating to different aspects of a child or adolescent’s life, and how they feel about these. The scale is intended to enable practitioners to gain more insight and understanding into how an adolescent feels about their life.
Social Smarts: Privacy, the Internet and You
The 12-page graphic novel is designed to appeal to tweens and younger teens and teach them about the importance of protecting their privacy online. It tells a story of a brother and sister who learn (sometimes the hard way) about the privacy risks related to…
Dealing With Depression: Antidepressant Skills for Teens
The handbook covers various topic on depression such as what depression is, what causes it and how to treat it. The handbook contains several worksheets which encourage a young person to think of their own ideas about addressing depression. Click here to view/download CONTENTS About…