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Covid-19 Advice for Children and Young People

Advice for Young People during the Covid-19 outbreak

Mind Hertfordshire Network has launched a number of helpful servcies for children and young people to access directly (free). They include the following:
- A young people's helpine
- Free learning for 15-18 year olds promoting positive mental health & emotional wellbeing
- A young people's online hangout for young people aged 15+ 
- A Care Leaver's meeting place for 18-24 year-olds.
All contacting information is available in this flyer. Feel free to make contact. These reources are there for you to use.
 
Advice and signposting document:
In this document you will find information and links you can access to help you look after your mental health and emotional wellbeing: Click here for further information
 
Advice lines for children and young people:

  • If you want to make contact anonymously to a professional - you can text a School Nurse on 07480 635 050 Monday to Fiday 9am-5pm (secondary school aged pupils). You can text this number about absolutely anything you think you might need help with! Alternatively, you can also check out Public Health School Nursing Health for Teens website to receive support for a range of topics.

  • Herts Mind Network have launched a new early intervention and prevention helpline for children and young people aged 10-17 in Herts. For opening hours and more information please visit the website https://www.hertsmindnetwork.org/young-peoples-helpline .Helpline number is 01923 256391

  • The ‘Schools and Families Advice Line’ (SFAL) is a new service established to provide emotional wellbeing advice and early help to children and young people, school staff and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Families and young people can self-refer to this service. If you feel this service could help, please call our Single Point of Access (SPA) who will take your details before passing them onto our call back service. Telephone: 0300 777 0707 Email: You will get a call back from a mental health practitioner between 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Places to get support:

  • YC Hertfordshire provide careers guidance in your school and youth worker support both in schools and the community. We have put together the information to help you start on this journey click here to view.

  • Supporting young people in Welwyn Hatfield, Join an online youth project in Welwyn Hatfield call us today click here for further information.

Information about Covid-19 including Just Talk resources:

Just Talk is a Hertfordshire multi-agency campaign for promoting and maintaining good mental health. Within the Just Talk website, there is a specific Covid-19 page which  is updated on a daily basis containing collated and new resources and information for young people and parents:  https://www.justtalkherts.org/news/looking-after-your-mental-health-during-coronavirus.aspx

Public Health COVID-19 Webinar for Young People: A recording of the LIVE Young Peoples Covid-19 webinar is now available to view via: https://www.justtalkherts.org/News/Youth-webinar.aspx

The webinar addressed questions that have been raised by young people. The webinar panel included Professor Jim McManus, Herts Director of Public Health; Councillor Tim Hutchings, Cabinet Member for Public Health; Simon Newland, Education Operations Director, Hertfordshire County Council; and Liz Shapland, Deputy Education Services Director, Herts for Learning.

A full list of questions and answers submitted during the Q&A, will available on this website in due course, along with British Sign Language translation.

Coronavirus Bereavement - A guide to helping teenagers grieve and further advice in relation to the Coronavirus situation. This guide has been written to help you manage the distressing and confusing reactions that happen to you when someone dies. Bereavement is the name given to explain the experience we have following the death of someone we know. It can be a close bereavement such as of a parent, brother or sister, grandparent, friend, close family friend, or a relationship that was important to you, or the bereavement of someone we were not as close to but who was important to us. When we are bereaved we experience grief.