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Students' and Young People's Health
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- Act!vate - workbook designed to support young people who are (or wish to be) involved in sexual and reproductive health programmes and activities, from IPPF
- @ease - mental health resource for young people under stress or worried about their thoughts & feelings. Includes advice on dealing with a range of problems, follow different characters in cartoon format, diary format, @ease quiz, information on severe mental health issues & treatments, including complementary therapies, research, medication & talking therapies, also Student & Mental Health pack online for advisers, online discussion group
- Ahead 4 health - uses scenarios to look at problems faced by young people & students, summary of symptoms, help with common problems, 2 online self-help workbooks on problem solving & being assertive
- Association of Youth with ME - information & links
- AVERT (AIDS Education & Research Trust - UK organisation, AVERT, large site includes young people's section, UK AIDS & HIV news, HIV & AIDS quiz, HIV, AIDS & women & children, medical & living with AIDS, becoming infected testing & condoms, homosexuality, gay men & AIDS, drug injection & HIV prevention, drug use in English prisons, AIDS resources, sex education & young people, links to other sites,
- Brook Online - sex & contraception advice, especially for young people, section for under-16s, information on contraception, emergency contraception & sex infections & Frequently Asked Questions
- Healthier by Degrees - excellent UK university site with information & advice on a range of health issues including stress, flu, alcohol, smoking, travel, sexual health, drug awareness, food
- The Health House - visually interesting, includes a section on sexual health & issues, from Channel 4
- The Impotence Association - for men & for women, includes patient information leaflets, questions & answers section, news & articles
- Leaflets for self help - wide range on online leaflets covering, common difficulties & work-related problems from Cambridge University Counselling Service, how to series & understanding series from MIND,
- Mezzo - online guide to love & relationships for young people, by young people, from IPPF
- MJC Online - information on ME for children, young people, schools & others, includes Guidelines for schools
- NUS Online - large amount of essential information for students including article on mobile phones, dealing with being ill while studying, healthy living issues, mental health, drugs, men's health, meningitis, sexual health, women's health & lots more, including housing, student finance & education advice
- RUthinking - information on sex, relationships & contraception for under 18s, includes helpline, factsheets, links to other sites
- Sex education & young people - from AVERT, including young people's views, UK policy & legislation, school sex education, exercises for young people
- Student Counselling Service - provides advice & information for students & staff (making a referral, sudden death, mental health), also links to leaflets from the Royal College of Psychiatrists & University of Chicago, from the University of Lincoln (UK)
- Student Health.co.uk - weekly news, also A - Z advice on conditions, links to university & college health centres, links to student & medical sites, sections on digestive tract, ear, nose & throat, first aid, healthy living, infections, men's health, mental health, nutrition, respiratory, sexual health, skin problems, sports injuries, travel medicine, women's health
- YoungMinds - young people's mental health charity, site includes links for young people, parents' & professionals, magazine, manifesto, password protected site for members, publications & resources to buy, seminars & training
- your life, your future - booklet on being in care and leaving care for young people on what you should expect & what the government is doing for. Sections on being in care, leaving care, equal care for all, children & the law, safety, working with agencies + list of organisations & contacts for young people
Please let us know if there are sites we should include or sites which have moved.
Disclaimer: We cannot check the content of all the sites included, so please take care with any advice or information given in sites, particularly where it does not come from a recognised organisation or profession.
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