Health

Doctor and young ladyLooking for some information related to health issues?

Which one of these organisations could help you?

  • AVERT provide help, advice and information about HIV and AIDS.
  • Free and confidential sexual health advice and contraception to young people up to the age of 25.
  • We work together with families to try and gain an understanding of how the young person is feeling.
  • An integrated child psychology and child psychiatry, social work and family therapy service.
  • We have experience and understanding of young people and their emotional problems.
  • We are here to help you and your family to deal with worries, sadness or troubles you may be experiencing.
  • We address emotional and relationship difficulties presenting in young people, children and their families.
  • We address emotional and relationship difficulties presenting in young people, children and their families.
  • Counselling Directory is ultimately a huge counselling support network, helping those in distress to find a counsellor close to them and appropriate for their needs.
  • Anyone can contact Cruse if they want to talk about themselves or someone they know who has been affected by a death.
  • The Depression Alliance website contains information about the symptoms of depression, treatments for depression, as well as Depression Alliance campaigns and local groups.
  • Advice on contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and abortion.
  • Free, friendly, confidential family planning service.
  • We are a family planning clinic that offers help, advice and support.
  • We help parents going through difficult times including: loneliness and isolation, lone parenting, first time parenthood or new babies.
  • We run 4 family groups - in Broadfield and Tilgate (Crawley) and Billingshurst, Horsham with a group for parents of mutiple births in Crawley.
  • We help parents going through difficult times including: loneliness and isolation, lone-parenting, first-time parenthood, or new babies.
  • Lifecentre provides adults and young people aged under 18 with confidential counselling services over the phone and face to face to talk about any unwanted sexual experience.
  • Information on all aspects of sex education and teenage life, including teenage pregnancy, help and advice, periods, lovebugs (sexually transmitted infections), sex, peer pressure, sexuality, contraception, emergency contraception and puberty.
  • Mind in Brighton and Hove works to promote good mental health in our city and across Sussex.
  • Information on mental health issues, including self harm, suicide, drugs and treatments.
  • Link to external website, giving lots of information related to health issues.
  • Nurses answer calls on this confidential helpline. If you are feeling ill they can tell you whether you need to go to hospital or see a General Pratitioner (GP), or whether you can treat yourself at home.
  • The PAPYRUS national confidential helpline gives support and practical advice to young people worried about themselves and to anyone else concerned that a young person they know may be at risk of harming themselves.
  • Loads of helpful hints, information and advice on health issues.
  • Rape Crisis Centres provide a range of specialist services for women and girls that have been raped or experienced another form of sexual violence.
  • This telephone helpline is for young people aged 12-18 who have experienced the death of someone close to them.
  • Relateen is a dedicated counselling service for young people aged 10-19 who have relationship issues they would like to talk about.
  • Fantastic information on sex, drugs and relationships aimed at those under 18.
  • If you are having difficult thoughts, feelings or experiences, which are affecting your life, advocacy could help you get the support you want.
  • We believe that its absolutely unacceptable that so many people die needlessly because no one could give them first aid when they needed it. St John Ambulance teaches people first aid so that they can be the difference between a life lost and a life saved.
  • Hospice which has a catchment area stretching from Emsworth in the west, up to Midhurst and Petworth in the north and into Arundel and Littlehampton in the east.
  • Information, help and advice on spots.
  • Our aim is to improve the physical and mental health of children, young people and their families in Brighton and Hove.
  • Help, advice and information about miscarriages.
  • An online directory of counsellors in Sussex.
  • West Sussex Sexual Health provides a range of NHS sexual health services throughout the county.
  • We provide local health services, including doctors, nurses and therapists, and help with any health problems.
  • Health issues for young people are not just about spots and sexual health clinics Going into hospital for whatever reason can happen anytime You might need an unexpected visit to Accident & Emergency or a longer, in-patient stay.