Staying healthy
Your Social Worker and Personal Adviser can support you to stay healthy. Listed below is the support and advice you can expect to receive:
- Give you information on healthy living
- Give you information on getting help to pay for prescriptions
- Support you to register with a GP
- Support you to register with a dentist
- Support you to move from CAMHS to adult services
- Give you information about counselling services that are available locally
- Give you help with transport costs when attending health appointments
- Support available for young women who become pregnant through the neighborhood midwives team as well as family nurse partnership schemes to support young mothers
- We would want to support you to access services as a young parent
- Support with sexual health and contraception
- Your Personal adviser can support you to ask your GP to refer you to the mental health services
- Access to subsidised activities such as Gym
Health passport
Our Health Nurse will carry out your health assessments every year until your 18th birthday. At your final health assessment you will be given a Health Passport.
Your Health Passport is a very important document, as it contains key information from your childhood (for example, when and if you have had immunisations) and your current health needs. Your Health Passport will support you through to adulthood.
Emotional issues and disability
Your Personal Adviser will help you access the right provision to help you deal with any emotional issues you may be experiencing when you leave care (including accessing your GP). It's important that you're registered with a GP wherever you live, and your Personal Adviser can help you do this.
If you have a disability, we will provide services to you as a care leaver in addition to any services you may already receive around your disability.
Your social worker can present your information to our Transitional Panel when you're over 14 years old to explore if you will need adult services after you turn 18 years old.