Health
Information on how to stay healthy, including healthy eating, sexual health, drugs, alcohol and keeping safe.
Useful Information
Keeping healthy: Details of national and local medical services as well as general health information.
Healthy eating: Details on any local information about healthy eating and diet
Sexual health, contraception and pregnancy: Details of local services for young people such as details of sexual health clinics.
Health problems: Details on any specific health problems affecting young people.
Useful Publications
- Eating well and feeling good (Young Minds)
- Do you ever feel depressed? (Young Minds)
- In school, stay cool? (Young Minds)
- Mental illness in your family? (Young Minds)
- Worried about self-injury (Young Minds)
- Do you come her often? (Brook)
- Cool it! (Brook)
- Nothing but the facts leaflets (Brook)
- Wise Up! – A guide to sex advice services for young women / men (Brook)
- Wise Up! – Need to go for advice about sex? (Brook)
- 4 Boys / 4 Girls (Family Planning Association)
- Pregnancy: A young person’s guide (Family Planning Association)
- What is asthma? (Asthma UK)
- What is epilepsy? (The National Society for Epilepsy)
- Think Safety (Suzy Lamplugh Trust)
- Drugs: the facts (Department of Health)
- FRANK: The truth about drugs – know the score (Department of Health)
- Gambling problem? A guide to help and support (Gamcare)
- Stop smoking, start living (NHS)
- Quit because – pack for young people (Quit)
- Real Life Issues: Addictions (Trotman)
Useful Websites
- www.youngminds.org.uk - charity committed to improving the mental health of young people under 25.
- www.mentalhealth.org.uk - Mental Health Foundation
- www.b-eat.co.uk - beating eating disorders
- www.dh.gov.uk - Department of Health
- www.nhs.uk - NHS Choices Your Health, Your Choices
- www.hit.org.uk - information on drugs, community safety and other public health concerns
- www.quit.org.uk - helping smokers to stop
- www.ruthinking.co.uk - information on sex and relationships
- www.fpa.org.uk - information on sexual health
- www.brook.org.uk - sexual health advice
- www.teenagehealthfreak.org - teenage health website
- www.nspcc.org.uk - National Society for the prevention of cruelty to Children
- www.safeguardingchildren.stoke.gov.uk - Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Board
- www.asthma.org.uk - Asthma UK
- www.epilepsysociety.org.uk - The National Society for Epilepsy
- www.suzylamplugh.org.uk - Suzy Lamplugh Trust
- www.gamcare.org.uk - Support, information and advice on gambling problems
- www.smokefree.nhs.uk
