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The health visitor’s role starts during pregnancy and continues to offer support through the first few weeks after the birth and all the way through until early childhood.
All health visitors are nurses or midwives with specialist training in family and community health. They work with parents and their families to improve health and wellbeing.
The aim of our 0 to 19 health visiting and school health service is to make sure that children, young people and families can access a health visitor or school nurse. We can provide support with healthy growth and development, and support children with any health needs.
Starting school is a significant and exciting milestone for children and their parents and carers. It is important that any health, growth or developmental concerns are highlighted now and support can be offered from the 0-19 service in Newcastle.
The Little Orange Book helps parents of under-fives with practical information about common childhood conditions. Distributed to all new mums in Newcastle and Gateshead through health visitors, this little gem helps parents and carers to recognise and respond to a range of common diseases, illnesses and conditions as well as pointing you to the most appropriate service if you need further support.
Ambitious about Autism has a rapidly growing online Ambitious Youth Network to enable more autistic young people to have their voices heard. Through the network, autistic young people between the ages of 16 to 25 can share experiences, connect with others, have their say on Ambitious about Autism’s projects as well as access a range of opportunities to advocate and improve services for autistic young people.
Qwell is a free, safe and anonymous mental health support tool for 18 to 25 year olds.
We offer a variety of anonymous support options to meet your needs
Online messaging
Our messaging feature allows you to reach out directly to a professional. We also use messages to connect with someone who may need additional support.
What we do
We produce evidence-based short films and factsheets to help teachers, parents, carers and others working with children to help recognise any potential mental health issues in Primary School aged children. These are freely available on our website Nip in the Bud.
We believe passionately that early intervention reduces the risk of these issues becoming more serious in later years.
Our aims are to:
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Provide a peer led, peer delivered education and support service where people can learn from each other’s insights, skills and lived experience.
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Nurture a community of warriors and survivors towards a sense of belonging and acceptance for who, what and how they are.
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Enable connection and friendship
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Provide opportunities that allow students to aspire to be their best selves.
Your Health Visiting and School Nursing service and Community Family Hubs are available to support you.
Are you a parent/carer who would like advice and support?
Your Health Visitor and School Nurse can offer support about healthy eating, sleep, behaviour, toilet training, healthy bladder & bowel, emotional wellbeing, healthy relationships including sexual health and healthy lifestyles.
Are you a young person who wants to speak to a School Nurse?
Our vision
Our vision is a world where children and families are supported effectively to build on their strengths and to achieve their goals in life
Our mission is to transform the experience of children, young people and their families with mental health. We do this by:
NECS knows that sometimes parents and carers may be concerned about the emotional wellbeing of their children. Since our launch in 2006, we’ve experienced a steady increase in children accessing, and benefiting from, counselling. This has been even more so over the last 2 years as we move through the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is Makaton?
Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate.
It supports the development of essential communication skills such as:
Welcome to Healthier Together – a great place to find accurate and trusted NHS healthcare advice in the North East and North Cumbria.
All the information on the Healthier Together site has been checked by clinicians, to ensure we offer the best advice for parents, carers, young people and health professionals.
You can find everything from pregnancy tips and advice on poorly babies to 'should my child go to school today?' or emotional wellbeing for young people, and we're regularly adding new topics.
New online mental health service launches in Newcastle and Gateshead
Ways to Wellness is a service for people in the west of Newcastle whose daily lives are affected by certain long-term health conditions. GPs and their primary care teams use social prescribing to refer patients to the service. Ways to Wellness adds to and complements the medical support that people receive, to help them feel more confident to manage their long-term conditions and make positive lifestyle choices.
Would you like to lose weight, maintain a healthy weight or support someone else to do so?
Here you will find a range of useful information and resources available in the North East and North Cumbria.
Background
In England nearly 65% of adults are classed as overweight or obese, this is similar in North Cumbria and in the North East it is even higher.
MindEd is a free educational resource providing education about children and young people, adults and older people's mental health for all adults.
Monday night is a nurture session for children suffering with anxiety aged 7-12.
Newcastle Continence Service provides a home delivery service and a specialist nurse service for people with continence issues. Contact the nursing line for diagnosis and assessment and then the continence service for help and support and delivery arrangements.
Specialist Rehabilitation Services
The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability. We deliver rehabilitation, education and community services through skilled teams who work with children and young people, and their families.
Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity with over 25 years’ experience working with pupils, families and staff in UK schools.
We provide mental health support in schools through one-to-one and group counselling using tried and tested methods backed by research.
We also offer expert training and professional qualifications.
Our Network covers two key areas of Children’s Hospital care including Paediatric Critical Care and Surgery in Children.
Our Team comprises of 8 members of staff, 2 clinical leads for PCC and 1 for SIC, plus a core team including Network Manager, Lead Nurse, Educator, Data Analyst and Administrator.
Designability is a national charity that enables disabled people to live with greater independence.
Introducing Wizzybug!
Wizzybug is a fun, innovative powered wheelchair provided FREE of charge to young children in the UK by Designability, a charity based in Bath.
Who is Wizzybug designed for?
Resources tailored to the needs of families and children
On this site, you will find all the information you and your child need to fully understand asthma, know how to recognise important symptoms and know how their treatment should be so you can get the best possible control of their asthma.
There is also advice for how to look after your child’s asthma in school and your rights if your child has asthma.
Be kind to your mind
There are small things we can all do to help be kind to your mind, and these can make a big difference to how we feel.
Get expert advice and practical tips to help you look after your mental wellbeing and make them part of your daily routine.
Newcastle Vision Support, formerly Newcastle Society for Blind People, was first established in 1867 and has been supporting visually impaired and blind people in Newcastle for 150 years.
We work closely with other organisations to ensure that the people of Newcastle with sight loss benefit from our combined skills and knowledge.