About Here for someone
Here for Someone was created for families and friends supporting someone through mental health difficulties. It brings useful public guidance into one place.
Why I built this
I created Here for Someone after supporting a family member through serious mental-health difficulties.
Useful information already existed, but it was scattered across NHS and charity websites and hard to find when I needed it.
Here for Someone brings that public guidance together for friends, partners and family members.
What you will find herePractical help for friends, partners and family supporting someone with mental health difficulties. Here for Someone organises public guidance from the NHS, recognised charities and statutory bodies, with the source linked beside the information it supports.
Getting medical or urgent helpHere for Someone is not a helpline and cannot respond to emergencies. Use the urgent numbers shown throughout the site when someone needs immediate help. This is general information, not personalised medical or legal advice.
Who’s behind itI’m a father of three living on the south coast of England. I’ve supported two family members through periods of serious mental illness, including support over many years. I built Here for Someone because useful information was often hard to find when I needed it.
I run the site independently. You can contact me through the contact form with questions, feedback or enquiries about the project. Here for Someone is not a registered charity, company or NHS service.
How information is checkedThe guidance has not been clinically reviewed. Each urgent guide follows a main official source, and the pages identify which age group and UK nation the advice covers. Guides show when their sources were checked. Read how information is selected and checked.
Review scheduleUrgent and high-risk guidance, helpline details and urgent routes are checked at least every three months. Other health and legal guidance is reviewed against the linked public sources at least every six months, and sooner when an official change is identified. The checked date records the last full source check, not clinical approval.
Free, no sign-up, no advertising trackersYou do not need an account to use the site. Here for Someone does not use visitor analytics or advertising trackers. The crisis-plan tool uses storage in the current browser tab so entries survive a refresh. Read the privacy information.
Spotted something wrong?If a number is out of date, a link is broken or something is unclear, please tell me. See the accessibility statement for help using the site and reporting a barrier.
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Supporting the projectThe website is free and does not carry advertising. If it has helped you, you can make an optional contribution towards its running costs. Read how to support the project.
Always for the supporterThis website is for adults worried about or helping someone with mental health difficulties, whether that person is an adult or under 18. Parents, carers and other adults supporting a child or teenager should start with children and teenagers. Shared supporter skills can help across ages; treatment, safety and legal details need age-appropriate sources. The young-carers guide is for adults helping a child who has caring responsibilities.
England & Wales firstScotland and Northern Ireland have different mental-health laws. Relevant differences are flagged on the page.