It is common for young people who have had difficult early experiences and have been in care to find aspects of life challenging. If you are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, worried, unhappy or have any other mental health difficulties contact your GP. They will be able to assess how you are feeling, and recommend certain treatments. For example, talking therapies or medication or refer you to other agencies for support.
There are many online resources to support mental health and wellbeing. The Keep Your Head website brings all this together in one trusted place. It provides local and national contacts for support and counselling or just somebody to talk to.
We have an agreement with Evolve Counselling to provide heavily discounted therapeutic counselling to any of our Care Leavers living in Cambridgeshire or Peterborough. This is income assessed will cost £5 per session if you are on Universal Credit, or slightly more if you are on a higher income. To access this please contact Evolve counselling.
If you need to speak to someone straight away call The Samaritans and talk to someone anonymously about anything at all.
Telephone 116 123 (free call).
Care Leaver Specific Mental Health Support
The Big Initiative
Access to up to 50 free online courses for Care Leavers. Covering issues such as parenting support, isolation, eating disorders.
Call The Training Hub on 0161 884 3000 and refer to 'Care Leaver' status.
Become
Information and Advice for young people in care or those who have recently left care.
Please call 0800 023 2033 (Monday to Friday, 10.30am to 3pm)