Health and wellbeing

People with disabilities may be at greater risk of poor general health and wellbeing. They may also have additional health or wellbeing needs specific to their impairment or underlying health condition.

Access to health and wellbeing services are important in ensuring young people with a disability can live happy and healthy lives.

Services

Community Learning Disability Team

Community Learning Disability Team (external link) are a multi-disciplinary team of nurses and therapists supporting children and adults with a diagnosed learning disability (registered with a Wigan GP), who have additional unmet health and/ or behavioural needs.

Services include:

Speech and Language
Occupational Therapists
Physiotherapist
Community Nurses
Support Workers
Consultant Psychiatrist

Children and Young People's Continuing Care

Some children and young people (up to age 18), may have very complex health needs. These may be the result of:

congenital conditions (something that happens before or at birth)
long-term or life-limiting conditions
disability
serious illness or injury.

Children with such complex needs may need additional health support to that which is routinely available from GP practices, hospitals, or in the community. Please look at the www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-and-young-peoples-continuing-care-national-framework for further information.

Be Well

Be Well bring Wigan Borough's leisure and wellbeing services together to build a borough where people are healthy, active, and happy.

Pre-book a tour of one the leisure facilities to find out more about the range of activities available.
Junior Memberships - We believe that everybody should have the opportunity to stay fit, active, and healthy, whatever your age.
Active Inclusive programmes offers individuals with disabilities and their families a huge range of fun and friendly inclusive and accessible experiences.
Let’s Get Movin’ is a free family referral programme that helps families stay fit, active and healthy while having fun together.

Community Link Workers

Community Link Workers can help you find the right support with any social issues that are affecting your health and wellbeing, for example: social isolation, money worries, education, benefits and welfare, unemployment, bereavement.

Locala

Locala (external link) delivers sexual health services for women, men and young people across Wigan and Leigh.

Kooth

Kooth (external link) offers free, safe and anonymous online support for young people aged up to 19. Services include online counselling, self-help advice and support forums.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

There are a range of organisations you can access to help you improve your mental health and wellbeing. For more information, please visit the Mental health and wellbeing webpage.

The Thrive Framework

THRIVE is an integrated, person centred, and needs led approach delivering mental health services for children, young people, and their families. THRIVE includes five quadrants.

Thriving - Those whose current need support to maintain mental wellbeing through effective prevention and promotion strategies
Getting Advice - Those who need advice and signposting.
Getting Help - Those who need focused goals-based input.
Getting More Help - Those who need more extensive and specialised goals-based support.
Getting Risk Support - Those who have not benefited from, or are unable to use, help, but are of such a risk that they are still in contact with services.

Padlets

Padlets are real-time virtual bulletin boards.