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Staying Positive
Staying Positive is a set of Free three one-day workshops for young people aged 12 - 18 years living with a long-term health(s) condition i.e.
- Epilepsy
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- M.E
- Juvenile Arthritis
- Sickle Cell
- Crohns
- Depression
- etc
The workshops give you the skills to improvement the management of your condition, both from a health perspective and a social perspective. The workshops are facilitated by young trained people aged between 14 and 25 who are themselves living with a long-term health condition. They are held on a Saturday, Sunday or during school holidays to prevent to the loss of school time.
The workshops cover topics such as:
- Communication with family, friends and healthcare professionals;
- Socialising and friendships;
- Medication adherence;
- School, careers and the future;
- Feeling down and depressed;
- Independence and transition;and
- Sex, drugs and alcohol in the context of having a medical condition for the older participants and issues of puberty for the younger participants.
All workshops have a trained responsible adult on site to assist the young facilitators if necessary.
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT are running a set pilot workshops in the local area. If you are interested please call 01606 275357 or email: andrea.foster@cecpct.nhs.uk
