Growing Healthy 0-25 Durham

Welcome to Growing Healthy 0-25 County Durham

0-25 Family Health Service County Durham

Location

The 0-25 team are co-located in the Family Hubs and Children’s and Young People’s buildings across County Durham, integrated with partner organisations who provide services for children, young people and families. Further information about where we are located is available on our App or through our Single Point of Contact. The service is community based, with appointments and visits offered in homes, Family Hubs, education, colleges and community settings.

Opening Hours

The 0-25 service can be contacted Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, excluding bank holidays.

Practitioners can offer some visits and activities up to 8pm weekdays and on Saturday mornings.

Referrals

The 0-25 team accept referrals from a range of sources including children and young people, parents and carers, Midwives, GPs and other health professionals, schools and early years settings, and other partner services who work with children, young people and families.

Our SPOC telephone number is 03000 263538

Growing Healthy 0-25 App

Download our interactive app. The app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play by searching for ‘Children’s Health Service-HDFT

The Family Health Service Team

The 0-25 Family Health Service team includes:

Family Health Visitors and some Specialist Health Visitors
Family Health Specialist Public Health Nurses and Specialist Nurses
Family Health Staff Nurses
Family Health Practitioners and Assistants
Family Peer Supporters
Infant Feeding Team
Emotional Resilience Nurses and Practitioners
Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners
Safeguarding and Children in Care Nurses
Youth Practitioners
Admin Team

We work in partnership with all services that provide care and support to children, young people and families in County Durham, including Midwives, GPs, Education, One Point and Children’s Services staff, Paediatricians and Acute Hospital Trust Services and Therapies, and Voluntary and Community Organisations.

Healthy Child Programme Contacts

Healthy Child Programme (HCP)

The Healthy Child Programme (HCP) is a public health programme for children, young people and families which focuses on early intervention and prevention. The HCP offers a programme of screening, immunisations, developmental reviews and guidance to support parenting and healthy lifestyle choices. As part of the integrated Family Hub Teams, some of the Healthy Child Programme contacts will be offered at your local Family Hub, alongside a range of activities for children and families.

The Healthy Child Programme contacts in County Durham include:

Antenatal contact
New birth visit at 10-14 days
Contact at 3-5 weeks
Contact at 6-8 weeks
Contact at 3-4 months
A child health review/development assessment by one year of age
A child health review/ development assessment between 14-18 months of age
A child health review/development assessment by two and a half years of age
A child health review/development assessment may be offered between 3-5 years
A transition contact during reception year at school may be offered

0-19/25 Offer

Some common areas of information and support:

Pregnancy and transition into parenthood
Infant feeding/ specialist breast feeding support
Growth and nutrition
Healthy eating
Dental health
Development
Behaviour
Accident prevention
Safe sleeping
Speech and language development
Immunisations
Common childhood illness/infection
Safeguarding
Postnatal depression and emotional wellbeing
Parenting

For school age children, young people and their families:

Measuring and weighing children in reception and year 6 as part of the National Child Measurement Programme
Universal screening of vision for reception children
Providing first level advice and support for continence issues
Providing emotional health and wellbeing support
Supporting children and families with additional health needs or disability
Parenting
Behaviour
Safeguarding
Risk taking behaviour including drugs and alcohol
Stop smoking advice
Relationships, sexual health and pregnancy
Promoting healthy lifestyles in schools and communities through health education
Health promoting activities in the community
Transition to adulthood

Useful Links

www.durham.gov.uk/FamilyHubs

www.healthystart.nhs.uk

www.nenc-healthiertogether.nhs.uk

The Little Book Of Useful Stuff

What is the County Durham Growing Healthy Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Service?

It is normal to feel many different emotions during and after your pregnancy. Whilst this period can be a joyful time, it can also be a stressful time with many changes that come about with the arrival of a new baby. Changes to our bodies, hormones, emotions, relationship, and lifestyle that occur over this relatively short space of time, can sometimes cause our mental health to suffer.

This could be a new mental health problem or reoccurrence of a previous mental health problem you’ve experienced before. This is known as a perinatal mental health problem and 1 in 5 women experience mild to severe mental ill-health during pregnancy or after birth.

County Durham Family Hub and Start for Life Offer have developed a low level Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Service (PIMH) to support families who are experiencing PIMH difficulties. The low to moderate Perinatal and Infant mental health service provides a specialist service for women who are suffering from low to moderate mental health difficulties, during pregnancy, and up to two years after the baby’s birth.

Our team involves a group of professionals, who work together to provide a package of care treatment not sure needed suitable for you.

The team includes:

Specialist Health Visitor for Perinatal/Infant Mental Health
Perinatal/Infant mental health staff nurse
Family peer supporters – specialising in Perinatal/Infant Mental Health.

Our service aims are:

To provide the best possible care, treatment and support to you and your baby.
To support you in developing your confidence as a parent.
Interventions to strengthen the parent/child relationship.
To provide evidence-based treatments.

Please contact your Midwife, Health Visitor, GP or Family Hub staff, to refer into the service.

This website can’t provide individual clinical advice. If you are concerned about your mental health, or the health of someone close to you, please speak to your midwife, health visitor, GP or contact NHS 111.

In an emergency, contact 999.

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Access more support

If you have any questions regarding this change or require further information please contact our Single Point of Contact on 03000 263538.

Contact Us

The 0-25 service can be contacted Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, excluding bank holidays. Practitioners can offer some visits and activities up to 8pm weekdays and on Saturday mornings.