Health and wellbeing 'looking after yourself'

Support with health appointments

Your Personal Adviser can support you to attend important appointments while you get used to going to these by yourself.
If you feel you will need a lot of support or longer-term support, we can refer you to the social prescribing service for specialist support with accessing health services.

All care experienced young people are entitled to a free Everyone Active gym membership in Sunderland. If you live outside of Sunderland, we will explore funding access to a service local to you, so you do not miss out.

Access to Kooth, an online counsellor and support service for young people aged 10-18 and care experienced people up to 25 years of age.
Staff have advice available from a Consultant Clinical Psychologist weekly to make sure we are offering you the best service we can.
Young Person's Activity Coordinator will support young people with cooking and health eating, workshops around a healthy lifestyle, sexual relationships, promoting an active lifestyle and more.
Signposting to sexual health services and support to access these where needed.
If you need support with substance misuse, we can refer you to Wear Recover for specialist support.
We can support you to link in with the Recovery College who offer a range of free recovery focussed educational courses for people with lived mental health experience, their friends and family.