The ‘Help Yourself’ leaflet has been designed by young people for young people. It includes a range of support suggestions for young people regarding their mental health and wellbeing. Young people from Phoenix Detached Youth Project and North Tyneside Council’s Participation Team worked in partnership on the project. Launchpad North Tyneside supported them with this…
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Hi Can you spare a few hours per week to support a young person at risk of offending or re-offending? Download the flyer here. Thanks Kind regards, Heather Armstrong 🙂 Head of Youth & Community NCAC, Whickham Police Station, Front Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 4HE Mobile: 07876243606 Email: heather@thecoalition.org.uk
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In 2017, the Government published its Green Paper for Transforming children and young people’s mental health, which detailed proposals for expanding access to mental health care for children and young people, building on the national NHS transformation programme which is already underway. Its proposals were focused on providing additional support through schools and colleges and…
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Kooth is an online mental health counselling and wellbeing service for children and young people in North Tyneside. North Tyneside Council and North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have commissioned XenZone’s Kooth service, giving local young people aged between 11 and 18 access to free online counselling. As well as offering timely access to therapy,…
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These are the young minds we’re #FightingFor In the last 25 years, we’ve seen that people now talk about mental health more than ever before. However, help is still much too hard to find for young people when they need it. 81% of young people said there was not enough support available when they struggled…
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