Health, wellbeing and relationships
Below are some of the ways our leaving care service and your personal adviser can support you to stay healthy and look after your physical and mental health.
We can give you information on:
Healthy living
Getting help to pay for prescriptions
Local counselling services
Health drop-in centres
We can support you to:
Register with a GP
Move from CAMHS to adult services
Help you arrange childcare, if wanted
Develop a ‘health passport’ containing key information from your childhood (for example, when and if you have had immunisations) and your current health needs
We can help with:
Transport costs when attending health appointments
Free or subsidised access to the leisure centres we run, using the e+ scheme
Relationships
As well as support from a personal adviser, we may be able to offer you additional practical and emotional support, such as:
- providing you with a mentor or peer mentor
- help to maintain or regain contact with people special to you or who cared for you in the past, like former foster carers, independent visitors or social workers
- support to reconnect with family where it is in your best interests
Contact information
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