Support for young parents
Pregnancy and contraception contacts
For more information on pregnancy and contraception…
Local
Home-Start Hastings and Rother
If you are a mum, dad or carer with a child under 5 and are finding things tough at the moment, you can ask for free help.
Our volunteers help parents going through difficult times and will visit you regularly (usually once a week for a couple of hours) and offer:-
- Friendly support
- Understanding
- Reassurance
- A listening ear
- An extra pair of hands
- Practical help
Home-Start volunteers are people from different backgrounds and vary in age, but all have parenting experience.
They:-
Will visit you in your own home and accept you as you are
Are carefully selected for their friendliness, practical approach and understanding
Have been approved and have all attended a course of preparation before being matched with families.
Many of our volunteers have been helped by Home-start themselves.
Home-Start support is confidential. Personal information about you and your family is not disclosed to anyone outside Home-Start without your consent (except where there is a concern about the safety or welfare of a child).
You can choose whether or not to accept Home-Start support and can change your mind at any time – A volunteer will only visit on your invitation.
To find out if Home-Start can help, you can:-
Contact Nikki, Barbara or Verra at
66 London Road
St Leonards
East Sussex
TN37 6AS
Tel 01424 443636
home-start@hastingsandrother.fsnet.co.uk
Or..
Talk to your Health Visitor, Midwife or GP
Ask a Social Worker
Ask a friend or family member to contact the scheme for you.
The Health Visiting Service
Are you a young person or a young parent?
We can offer you advice on
- Sexual health
- Diet and fitness
- Alcohol and drug issues
- Practical parenting
- Family planning
- Your health
- Child behaviour and development
- Loneliness and isolation
Also
- Post-natal Group for young parents
- Robsack Aerobics & Healthy eating session
- Rachel with Forass group
These are the Teams
- Upper St Leonards
- Lower St Leonards
- West Hastings
We are around Mondays – Fridays 9-5
A duty system operates in the morning
We are:
- Welcoming
- Accessible
- And shock-proof!
We would love to meet you!
Other local contacts
- Ore Clinic 448410
- Arthur Blackman Clinic 851225
- Youth Information Shop 447033
- Pulse sexual health worker 446302
- Upper St Leonards Health Visiting Team 717608
- Lower St Leonards Health Visiting Team 448120
- West Hastings Health Visiting Team 447480
- Pregnancy tests and advice at Xtrax young people’s centre 722524
- Your GP or Nurse practitioner
- Sure-start counselling service 01424 421169
- Connexions – For info and support to help 13-19 year olds make decisions about their future.
www.connexions.gov.uk - Claire Peters – Teenage Pregnancy Advisor and Sure-Start Midwife 07774 904552
National
- National Childbirth Trust – For info on pregnancy, birth and antenatal classes
0870 444 8707
www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com - Quitline – Advice on stopping smoking – 0800 002200
- Info on teenage parenthood and pregnancy - www.teenagepregnancyunit.gov.uk
- FPA – for advice and practical help on planning pregnancy, contraception and abortion.
0845 310 1334
www.fpa.org.uk - British Pregnancy Advisory Service
08457 304030
www.bpas.org - Marie Stopes
0845 3008090
www.mariestopes.org.uk - Brook – For the nearest Brook young person’s clinic
0800 0185 023
www.brook.org.uk