Travel and bursary information for Truro and Penzance campuses is now available on our Travel & Bursary Hub (travel information for the STEM & Health Skills Centre will be announced shortly). Please read our Start of Year Guide to find out more about start dates, College Ready sessions and submitting your GCSE results.
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If you have concerns, or are worried about someone else in your life, advice and support is just a call, click or conversation away.
Concerned and in need of support
If students have any concerns about someone or need support they are encouraged to contact a member of the Safeguarding team as soon as possible on 01872 305712 or contact safeguarding@truro-penwith.ac.uk. Students and their parents can contact Student Services at any time or drop in to see the team.
Truro College phone: 01872 305711
Truro College email: studentservices@truro-penwith.ac.uk
Penwith College phone: 01736 809407
Penwith College email: penwithstudentservices@truro-penwith.ac.uk
Additional support is also available from many local and national services, some of which are included below.
Mental Health, Crisis and Suicide Prevention
Support available: Self-care and things we can do to look after our mental health.
Support available: Community mental health.
Support available: Suicide prevention.
Invictus CLEAR Counselling is a funded counselling service for young people living in Cornwall.
Services: Expert advice and practical tips to help you look after your mental health and wellbeing and to discover what works for you.
Support available: Suicide prevention including Stay Alive app.
Support available: Mental health.
Support available: Mental health (online app).
Support available: Mental health, money, homelessness, drugs.
(Formerley known as Outlook Southwest)
Support available: Mental health.
Talking therapies (IAPT) | Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (cornwallft.nhs.uk)
Support available: 24hr mental health and crisis.
0800 038 5300
Support available: Suicide prevention.
Support available: Low-cost counselling.
Support available: Crisis.
Support available: Teenage mental health.
Support available: Mental health app.
Support available: Mental health.
Support available: Teenage mental health.
Bereavment
Support: The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is the UK’s only national charity providing peer support to bereaved parents, adult siblings and grandparents who have experienced the death of a child, sibling or grandchild.
Support: Bereavement and Pre-bereavement Support
www.cornwallhospicecare.co.uk/our-community-services/bereavement-support/
Support: Helping people through one of the most painful times in life with bereavement support, information and campaigning.
Tel: 0808 808 1677
Web: www.cruse.org.uk
Support available: Bereavement.
Support: Marie Curie is the UK’s leading end of life charity. We bring 75 years of experience and leading research to the care we give at home, in our hospices and over the phone.
Support available: Bereaved children and young people.
Support: SANDS offers a safe space for anyone affected by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby whether you are a parent, sibling, grandparent, healthcare professional or friend. Please look at website for all the support offered.
Support available: Bereavement (16-25).
Support: We’re dedicated to finding causes and treatments to save babies’ lives as well as providing trusted pregnancy and baby loss information and support.
Support: Helping to navigate life after loss. WAY is a UK charity that offers a peer-to-peer support network for anyone who’s lost a partner before their 51st birthday – married or not, with or without children, inclusive of sexual orientation, gender, race and religion.
Support: Winston’s Wish is a charity that helps children, teenagers and young adults (up to the age of 25) find their feet when their worlds are turned upside down by grief.
We provide digital bereavement information, advice and support for young people across the UK who are grieving the death of someone important to them. We also help advise the adults who are caring for young grieving people including parents, school staff and healthcare professionals.
Winston’s Wish is excited to be launching Talk Grief – the Youth Led Grief Network, a dedicated online space for grieving teenagers and young adults to find support, help others and say it how it is – the good, the bad and the ugly.
OCD Support
Support available: OCD support.
Drug & Alcohol abuse
Support available: Drug and alcohol abuse.
Sexual health
Support available: Sexual health.
Support available: Sexual health (18+).
Homelessness
Support available: Homelessness.
Children, Young People & Families
Support available: Poverty, abuse, violence support, help with life skills and resilience.
Tel: 01872 321486 (Threemilestone)
https://www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/bullying-abuse-safety/your-rights/your-rights/
Prevent
Prevent Radicalisation and Extremism by Acting Early
ACT Early | Prevent radicalisation
Tel: 0800 011 3764
Employment
Support available: Employment and mental health.
Self-harm support
Support available: Self-harm support.
Sexual violence and abuse
Support available: Sexual violence and abuse.
Support available: Sexual abuse.
Kathy Tappin: 07837 058962 or Admin: 01872 323218
Domestic violence support
Support available: Domestic violence support for men.
Support available: Domestic violence support.
Support available: Domestic violence support.
Support available: Domestic violence support.
Eating disorders
Support available: Eating disorder support.
Support available: Eating disorders (NHS – referral from GP required).
LGBTQ+ Support
Support available: LGBT anti-violence.
Support available: LGBTQ.
Support available: Transgender, non-binary, gender diverse support.
Carers and young people in care
Support available: Charity for young people in care.
Independent Advice
Support available:
- Benefits
- Work
- Debt and money
- Consumer issues and advice
- Housing
- Family
- Law and courts
- Immigration
- Health
Tel: 0800 144 8848
Tel (Universal Credit support): 0800 144 8444
Email (Universal Credit support): helptoclaim@citizensadvicecornwall.org.uk