Your health and wellbeing are very important to us. Being healthy doesn’t just mean eating vegetables, exercising regularly and keeping your teeth clean. It also means feeling strong and well emotionally, making positive relationship choices, feeling safe where you live and not smoking, doing drugs or drinking alcohol excessively.
We encourage you to speak up if you are struggling with anything so we can help you access the support you need.
We will provide a health summary to you whether you have chosen to continue having your annual health reviews or not, and you can ask your social worker or YPA if you ever need another copy of this.
We will help you register at a doctor’s surgery and at other health services if you move home.
Emotional and mental health
We will work closely with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (known as CAMHS) and adult mental health services if they are involved in your care and support to make sure you are receiving the best level of support possible.
We will also assist you in considering what additional help you could access whenever you need more support, such as counselling or group sessions.
We have a dedicated mental health practitioner in the leaving care team who can help you if you are struggling with your mental health. This could be doing visits with you one-to-one, joint visits with your social worker or YPA, or helping you to navigate what are sometimes confusing pathways in adult services, for example.
We also have the Thrive therapeutic service who offer both one-to-one and group work support, including to care experienced parents.
