Young People's Health

 

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Suffolk Nurse

Contact Details Provision Availability
  • Tel: 0345 607 8866
  • Text Chat-Health: 07507 333356 (Mon-Fri 9am - 4.30pm)
  • Hadleigh Health Centre, Market Place, IP7 5DN (appointment needed)

Qualified nurses or midwives working with those 5-19yrs & their families offering support with:

  • Immunisations
  • Specialist advice on wider issues eg: anxiety, stress, depression.
  • ChatHealth texting service.
  • High School health ‘drop ins’ offering the C-card condom scheme, emergency contraception provision, STI & pergnany testing
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4YP Suffolk: (Suffolk Young People’s Health Project)

Contact Details Provision Availability

Local Charity providing & coordinating services that improve the social, emotional, physical health and wellbeing of young people in Suffolk aged 12-25yrs.

  • Drop in: currently via Google Hangouts App 10am-5pm.
  • Online chat 
  • 1:1 Counselling (currently via Zoom / Skype)
  • Sexual Health
  • Support Groups
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Free Sanitary Products​​​​​​

Contact Details Provision Availability
  • Hadleigh Library: Ask at desk & complete initial form.
  • The Porch Project: form to be completed and products can be collected from Project, School, GPs.
  • Hadleigh High School: available to students
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The Porch Project

Contact Details Provision Availability

Local Youth Club provision for 11-19 yrs. Also facilitate support from pre birth to mid-twenties.

  • 1:1 with Youth Worker
  • Coaching available
  • Sexual Health Support
  • C-Card distributor
  • Free sanitary products distributor
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The Mix

Contact Details Provision Availability

National support service for young people, from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs.

  • 1-2-1 online chat
  • Helpline & Crisis Messenger
  • Resources & info
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The Source

Contact Details Provision Availability

National support service for young people, from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs.

  • 1-2-1 online chat
  • Helpline & Crisis Messenger
  • Resources & info
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Child Line

Contact Details Provision Availability

Free & confidential Support service.

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