Mental health, wellbeing, suicide prevention and crisis support links

If you need help with your mental health and wellbeing use Angus’s:

Enhanced Community Support (ECS) Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs

These hubs manage referrals for adult patients who need additional support or specialist care and treatment for:

• mental health and wellbeing

• self-harm

• substance use

The Hub also accept referrals for 11 to 16 year olds for the Young People’s Peer Support Worker. This service is for young people with less complex mental health and well-being challenges.

How to access the hubs

Call your GP surgery and ask to be referred into the ECS Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub for support. GP surgery staff can complete the self-referral form on your behalf or you can complete it yourself.

Or download the self-referral form and patient information leaflet from your GP’s website.

About the hubs

There are four hubs, one in each Angus locality. They are made up of staff from the following teams. They meet daily to review all mental health and wellbeing referrals.

• Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs)

• Angus Integrated Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service (AIDARS)

• Angus Psychological Therapy Service

• Mental Health and Wellbeing Peer Support

• Community Link Workers

If you’d like to find more sources of support to get you back on track, and feeling OK, here are some more links.

NHS Inform: Mental Health

Identifying, treating and managing mental health problems and disorders

Mental health and wellbeing support available in GP practices

Angus Independent Advocacy

Free independent advocacy for people with no one else to help them. Independent advocacy can help people understand their rights and options, access services and have a say in their care and support.

Change Mental Heath

National mental health charity delivering support, information and advice to people experiencing mental ill health and those who care for them.

Community Sport Hubs, ANGUSalive

There is a clear link between our mental and physical health, and the benefits that being physically active can have on general health and wellbeing. Through the community sport hub network in Angus, sports clubs, physical activity providers, community organisations and partners are working hard to become as welcoming, accessible and inclusive as possible for the people in their communities. Examples of this include walking sports and sporting memories.

Insight Counselling

A safe, confidential space to talk about yourself and your life. Available to residents of, and people registered with GPs, in Dundee and Angus.

Insight also offers counselling to children and young people from age 12.

Penumbra: Angus Nova Project

Offers a range of options to empower people to manage their own wellbeing. Uses a coaching approach to help people manage their own recovery by breaking goals into achievable steps. Connects with resources, amenities and meaningful activities within the community and shares tools and techniques to manage wellbeing.

Self and third-party referral form

Qwell

Online emotional wellbeing and mental health support.

SAMH information Service 

SAMH is the Scottish Association for Mental Health.

Voluntary Action Angus 

Supports the growth of volunteering, social enterprise and local third sector development. Provides a Third Sector interface role (TSI), a community development function and is a key organisation in empowering communities and combatting poverty.