PARTNERSHIP

Partnership Services

Working in partnership with local services to provide young peopleleaving care, the help and support they need to live independently...

Parentline Helpline

Parentline helpline is 24/7 and specialises in helping parents under stress. You can offload on to them and talk through what would be best for your children and download a guide to Splitting Up.
  • 0808 800 2222
  • www.parentlineplus.org.uk

Here to Help

Relate
Relate counselling can help you save your relationship if it’s not too late but can also help it in the best way possible or pick up the emotional pieces after it has ended. A Relate counsellor can also help you work out how best to help the children and, by giving you emotional support, help you have more attention to spare for how the children are feeling. As well as offering counselling, face-to-face, by phone or email, Relate run a special course called Parents Apart for couples who have separated but want to learn how to get along for the sake of their children, and some centres offer mediation.
Mediation
We can help you and your partner negotiate the best arrangements for your children and protect the children from your conflict. They can be especially helpful if in all other respects you and your former partner are at war. As explained, some Relate centres offer mediation, but mediation can be found in different settings all-round the country often via solicitors. Contact the National Family Mediation Helpline for details of how they can help you and local mediation services.
UK Addiction Treatment Centres
Our purpose is to provide excellent care and treatment to enable all those suffering from addictive disorders to achieve a goal of life-long recovery. Our treatment centres provide comfortable and well-maintained accommodation and we have successfully treated hundreds of people affected by the negative impact of addiction. We treat addiction as an illness not a life choice and ensure that all our practitioners are highly trained and motivated to enable individuals to embark on a life changing process.
Young Minds Parents Information Service
Help you find how best to support your children through separation or divorce.
Resolution
Our purpose is to provide excellent care and treatment to enable all those suffering from addictive disorders to achieve a goal of life-long recovery. Our treatment centres provide comfortable and well-maintained accommodation and we have successfully treated hundreds of people affected by the negative impact of addiction. We treat addiction as an illness not a life choice and ensure that all our practitioners are highly trained and motivated to enable individuals to embark on a life changing process.
Contact
Contact Centres can provide a safe, neutral setting for your child to spend time with one or both parents and maybe other family members.
One Parent Families - Gingerbread
Can advise lone parents on a wide range of legal and financial issues.
Families Need Fathers
Help with shared parenting issues arising from relationship breakdown whether you’re the mum or dad, married or unmarried.
National Debtline
Expert advice over the phone or by email. The service is free, confidential, and independent.
National Domestic Violence Helpline
Advises female victims of violence in the home and can refer to local refuges.
Samaritans
The Samaritans are there to listen whenever you feel low, day or night.
Princes Trust
Youth charity that helps young people aged 11 to 30 get into jobs, education and training.
Breaking the Cycle
Provides support to individuals and families experiencing difficulties as well as offering training and intervention to organisations.
Monster Kidz
Children’s soft play area with café and sensory room. Suitable to hire out for private events but also offered work experience and employment to our service users.
Barker Properties
Provides maintenance to our homes and also offers our service users opportunity to learn property maintenance if interested through a worker’s programme which includes an apprenticeship.

Leeds services for young people

Forward Leeds
Service for young people, adults and families in Leeds who use alcohol and/or drugs. They aim to reduce risk taking behaviour through dedicated prevention. Early intervention and tailored programmes.
The Market Place
Free service available for 11-25 year olds. They offer a range of services including one to one support, counselling, group work, workshops and drop in sessions.
Mind Mate
Free service for those age 16-25 dedicated to provide mental health and emotional wellbeing support for young people, parents and professionals who work with young people. They offer a range of services including one to one support, counselling, group work, workshops and drop in sessions.
Connect Helpline (16 plus)
Connect is a telephone helpline open 6pm – 2am every night of the year for people living in Leeds. The service provides emotional support and information for people in distress.
Teen Connect (11-18years only)
Teen Connect is a helpline for 11-18 year-olds living in the Leeds area. They offer up to an hour of support either by phone or online chat. The helpline is open 6pm-2am every night.
Safe Zones (11 – 17 year olds)
Safe Zone is a new mental health crisis support service for anyone living in Leeds, aged 11–17, and their parents/carers, who need someone to talk to a safe and confidential setting. Available Mondays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Refferal basis only.
  • 0113 819 8189 or 07593 529367
between 17:00-20:30 on the day of support, with the last referral being taken at 20:30. Referrals operate on a first come, first served basis.
Night Owls
Night OWLS is a confidential support line for children, young people, their parents and carers who live in Bradford, Leeds, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. Available 8pm–8am every day for children, young people, parents and carers across West Yorkshire.
  • 0800 1488 244
Mermaids
Supporting gender identity issues in young people and adults.
Leeds Autism Aim
Free service in Leeds which offer advocacy, information, autistic-led groups, post-diagnostic support, weekly drop in sessions and
Muslim Youth Helpline
Offers confidential, faith and culturally sensitive support by phone, live chat, whats app and email.
Call for free between 4pm-10pm 7 days a week.
Papyrus
Offers confidental advice and support for young people struggling with sucidial feelings
Well Wave
Well Wave is a free, confidential, sexual wellbeing service for 13-24 year-olds in Leeds.

Well wave offer informal, non-judgmental information and support around relationships and sex, as well as tools and tests to help you take control, and take care, of your sexual health.
Youth Hubz have well wave trained practitioners.
Giving young people, leaving care, the help and care they need to live independently...
  • 0113 870 6222
  • Info@youthhubz.org
  • YOUNGLIVESMATTER

April

Floating Support keyworkers
After leaving school, I worked in the textile industry for over 20 years. To support and encourage my daughter to attend college I completed an access to higher education course, where I had the chance to volunteer at a homeless shelter as part of the curriculum.

My passion for helping others then led me to start working with young people, initially in a mother and baby unit. In 2003, I joined Calderdale Council as a casual residential worker, becoming a permanent staff member in 2007. I then moved to a short break unit for children with learning disabilities in 2011, where I stayed until 2015 before changing my career path to focus more on support than care.

For the next 8 years, I had the privilege of supporting 16-18 year old care leavers, and I was even promoted to manager in 2018. It was a very rewarding experience, but I was eager for a new challenge when the opportunity to become a team leader working with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) became available. I'm really enjoying the new experiences and the chance to support these young people as they navigate the asylum process and work towards living independently developing skills for community safety and involvement, personal hygiene, and basis English.

Outside of work, I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. It brings me great joy to be able to spend quality time with my loved ones.

Babita Mehta

24/7 Operational Manager
Babita has worked with children for over 20 years. She has worked in the Education sector in a safeguarding role, before transitioning into Safeguarding Lead with Youth Hubz Semi Independent Support where she has worked for the last 18months. She is currently completing Level 4 in Children, Young People and Families Practitioner and ensures she keeps up to date with her role by attending various Safeguarding Leadership courses with new legislation and guidance. Babita has been Safeguarding Lead since 2021. She supports the implementation of policies and procedures with safeguarding practices. She ensures staff are up to date with all the developments in child protection policy, research, practice and guidance. In 2023 Babita was promoted to Operational Manager for 24/7 support.