Connexions Humber | Support for young people in the Humber and East Yorkshire Area

Health

List of organisations that can help you with information about Health.

ALCOHOL

Adfam
www.adfam.org.uk

Al-Anon Family Groups UK
www.al-anonuk.org.uk

Alcohol Concern
www.alcoholconcern.org.uk

Alcoholics Anonymous
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk

Down Your Drink
www.downyourdrink.org.uk

National Association for Children of Alcoholics
www.nacoa.org.uk

Portman Group
www.portmangroup.co.uk

AUTISM

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
www.skill.org.uk

The National Autistic Society
www.autism.org.uk

CEREBRAL PALSY

SCOPE
www.scope.org.uk

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
www.skill.org.uk

DRUGS

Adfam
www.adfam.org.uk

Drugscope
www.drugscope.org.uk

Frank
www.talktofrank.com

Home Office: Drugs Website
www.drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk

PADA (Parents Against Drug Abuse)
www.pada.org.uk

Release
www.release.org.uk

The Drug Education Forum
www.drugeducationforum.com

DYSLEXIA

HEROS – Hull & East Riding Options
www.heros.org.uk

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
www.skill.org.uk

The British Dyslexia Association
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk

DYSPRAXIA

HEROS – Hull & East Riding Options
www.heros.org.uk

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
www.skill.org.uk

EATING DISORDERS

HEROS Hull & East Riding Options
www.heros.org.uk

National Centre for Eating Disorders
www.eating-disorders.org.uk

EPILEPSY

HEROS – Hull & East Riding Options
www.heros.org.uk

National Society for Epilepsy
www.epilepsynse.org.uk

GAMBLING

Gamcare
www.gamcare.org.uk

HEARING

RNID
www.rnid.org.uk

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
www.skill.org.uk

KEEPING HEALTHY

British Nutrition Foundation
www.nutrition.org.uk

Connexions Direct
www.connexions-direct.com

Food Standards Agency
www.foodstandards.gov.uk

Health Education Trust
www.healthedtrust.com

HEROS – Hull & East Riding Options
www.heros.org.uk

Male Health
www.malehealth.co.uk

Meningitis Research Foundation
www.meningitis.org

NHS Direct
www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk

Teenage Health Freak
www.teenagehealthfreak.org

Teens Health
www.teenshealth.org

MENTAL HEALTH

CDP Challenging Dependency
www.challengingdependency.co.uk

Depression Alliance
www.depressionalliance.org

HEROS – Hull & East Riding Options
www.heros.org.uk

Mental Health Foundation
www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Mental Health Jobs.Co.Uk
www.mentalhealthjobs.co.uk

Mind
www.mind.org.uk

Parents Association for the Prevention of Young Suicide
www.papyrus-uk.org

Relateen
beehive.thisishull.co.uk

Rethink
www.rethink.org

Royal College of Psychiatrists
www.rcpsych.ac.uk

Rural Net (The Rural Development Network)
www.ruralnetuk.org

Samaritans Central Office
www.samaritans.org.uk

SANE
www.sane.org.uk

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
www.skill.org.uk

The Warren Counselling Service
www.hullcc.gov.uk

www.readthesigns.org
www.readthesigns.org

Young Minds
www.youngminds.org.uk

Youth Information and Counselling Unit – East Riding
www.eastriding.gov.uk

Youth Information and Counselling Unit – North Lincs
www.nelincs.gov.uk

YPSS Counselling Service
www.hullcc.gov.uk

SELF HARM

National Childrens Bureau
www.selfharm.org.uk

National Self Harm Network
www.nshn.co.uk

Young Minds
www.youngminds.org.uk

SEXUAL HEALTH & PREGNANCY

AVERT International Aids Charity
www.avert.org

Brook Advisory Centre
www.brook.org.uk

Family Planning Association (fpa)
www.fpa.org.uk

HEROS – Hull & East Riding Options
www.heros.org.uk

Miscarriage Association
www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk

National Aids Trust (NAT)
www.nat.org.uk

Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre
www.rasasc.org.uk

Stonewall
www.stonewall.org.uk

Teenage Pregnancy
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk

Terence Higgins Trust
www.tht.org.uk

www.likeitis.org.uk
www.likeitis.org.uk

SIGHT

RNIB
www.rnib.org.uk

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
www.skill.org.uk

SMOKING

Quit (Smoking)
www.quit.org.uk

Smokefree NHS Choices
smokefree.nhs.uk

SOLVENT ABUSE