Service Area: Advice, Guidance & Signposting

Do you have a child aged 8 to 16 years? Are they struggling to cope with todays issues? Do you want help to support them? We are running 4 parenting information sessions to help parents and carers support their children with relevant difficult issues. School related stress, including transition from years 6 to 7 - 1st September 2020  Online and Cyber Safety – 6th October 2020 Children’s Mental health concerns (coping strategies and resilience) - 3rd November 2020 Support your child’s friendship issues (primary & secondary school) – 1st December 2020 Cost: £10 per person, per session. Delivery: via Zoom, once paid, you will be emailed a link. Time: 7pm to 8:30 pm...

Many of us now work from home due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the usual support we access in our workplaces may not be there for us at the moment. Therefore, it’s more important now than ever before to reflect on what keeps us well and identify what can impact our wellbeing during this time. The Wellness Action Plan (WAP) is a useful tool to help us identify what keeps us well and what impacts our mental health that we have been recommending for many years. This revised WAP is designed to support you when you’re working from home...

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Want to connect with other people and get connected online? Want to  video call with friends or family, join facebook, go along to an online art exhibition, or craft and chatter group, or join a peer support zoom call or an online chat, but not sure how to? It's a great way to feel connected when you can't get along to groups or get out and about. Give us a call and one of our Southampton volunteers will be happy to help. Know someone else who could use this help? Give them our number or with their permission send us their...

COVID-19 and smoking What you need to know If you smoke, now is the time to quit, to help you stay healthy and out of hospital. See the coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for smokers and vapers from Public Health England. Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a respiratory infection, which can cause life threatening complications affecting the heart as well as the lungs. Smoking damages your heart and lungs, which can put you at greater risk of developing severe disease from COVID-19. If you smoke, quitting will improve your health and wellbeing, help protect the health of those around you, and reduce your need to use...

Many cancer patients have had treatments cancelled, delayed, reduced and altered because of the potential threat of catching coronavirus but also because they did actually contract the virus. The psychological impact of shielding will be significant. People have had to receive bad news and had protracted stays in hospital acutely unwell without loved ones. At home many people are developing significant anxiety and depression as result of shielding and are already very frightened of adjusting to life after lockdown. Many people have felt very vulnerable about the reminder of cancer even though their cancer was treated years ago. As a...

The Employment Support Team is the council's employment support service. We offer help, advice and support to people who are disabled or disadvantaged, to find work or training. The Employment Support Team can help by: Talking to people about what kind of work they would like to do Helping them to realise what skills and abilities they already have, to help them find the right job Finding training courses Helping to look for jobs and contacting employers Talking to employers if people are worried about how their health or disability might affect their chance of getting a job Helping to fill in...

COVID-19 - Read the latest Wellbeing@Work newsletters for support and information. Why is it important to invest in employee wellbeing? When you look after your people, your people look after your business Healthier means less sickness absence Happier means more motivated Engaged means more productive Supported means innovative Valued means retaining key talent The free Wellbeing@Work Toolkit makes it easy for local businesses to be proactive and invest in the health and wellbeing of their staff. Make health and wellbeing part of your business culture and success Health and Wellbeing survey, action planning, measuring ROI, policies Southampton Workplace Health and Wellbeing Pledge Raise awareness and develop skills...

Assistance to People with Sight Loss During COVID-19 Pandemic Guide Dogs have put together some suggestions about basic communication principles to consider when interacting with people with sight loss. The does not replace or override general guidance or policies in relation to supporting people during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is intended to support those who are working or volunteering with blind and partially sighted people for the first time. Sight loss is more common than you think Some blind and partially sighted people will already be known by various agencies. For example, they may be on the council’s sight loss...