Resource library

This booklet, co-produced with carers has been designed to support carers to prepare to have conversations with care teams.

As you start to become an adult, your body goes through lots of changes and you’ll notice that your moods and behaviour change too. From starting your periods to growing body hair, find out what to expect when you go through puberty.

Information about how the Trust's Chaplaincy Service can support you whilst you are in hospital or being care for by a community team.

DBT is a form of psychological therapy that is used to help people who are experiencing difficult emotions and stresses. It involves accepting that you have these thoughts and putting in place strategies to cope with them. This leaflet outlines what the therapy involves and describes the modules taught in DBT in community and inpatient children and young peoples services.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust supports contact, and recognises that maintaining relationships between children and young people and their family, who are service users of the Trust, is important.

This leaflet is to provide young people with information about Lotus Ward before they arrive. There is information about what it is, where it is, what you can bring for your room and what activities are carried out at Lotus Ward.

A care plan is an agreement between you and your health professional to help you manage your health day to day. By talking about your care plan with your health professional you can say how you want to manage your health and choose what's best for you.

A list of health and wellbeing books for young people, that have been chosen with the help of Newcastle's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Information and advice about moving on from Children and Young People's Service (CYPS) to adult services.

A list of health and wellbeing books to help parents and carers with children or teenagers. Chosen with the help of Newcastle's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.