The Rona Hub
Join the Orange Button Community!
If you have recent suicide prevention training, use your skills to join the Orange Button scheme and tackle the stigma around suicide. It is a way of showing others in your community who are having thoughts of suicide, or are worried about somebody else, that you are:
- comfortable to say or hear the word suicide
- can listen without judgement
- can inform people where to find help and support
Mental health support in Worcestershire & Herefordshire
Take a look at the Now We’re Talking for Healthy Minds website to find out about support in your area.
The site is also full of handy resources and tips to help you manage your mental health and support others.
This NHS Healthy Minds teams cover Herefordshire and Worcestershire and provide a range of free, confidential support. This includes:
- Online therapy
- Groups and courses
- 1:1 support
- Access to some great resources available in your local area
If you need urgent help, call the local helpline 0808 196 9127
Emotional Health & Wellbeing
If you’re going through a difficult time or struggling to understand how you are feeling, these links can help you.
- Childline
- Every Mind Matters - self-care for young people
- Kooth - online mental wellbeing community
- Mind for young people
- PLUS – combatting loneliness in Worcestershire
- Quell - free, safe and anonymous mental health support for over 18s
- Reading Well in Worcestershire Libraries
- Samaritans for young people
- The Children’s Society for Young People
- The Mix – essential support for under 25s
- Worcestershire Healthy Minds
- Young Minds - Look after yourself
COVID-19
Here’s how you can help to stay safe and stop the spread:
- Get vaccinated. It’s the best defence against COVID-19 and other infections such as flu.
- Let fresh air in when meeting people indoors
- Be hygienic:
- wash your hands regularly for 20 seconds or longer
- cover your nose and mouth when you cough and sneeze
- clean your surroundings frequently
- Wear a face covering or a face mask:
- when you are meeting someone who has a higher risk of becoming seriously unwell
- when COVID-19 rates are high and you will be near others in busy and enclosed spaces
- when there are a lot of respiratory viruses around e.g. in winter, and you will be near other people in busy and enclosed spaces
Want to find out more? Read the government’s guidance on:
Living safely with respiratory infections, including COVID-19
People with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19 or a positive COVID-19 test
Keen to keep active and stay fit
There’s lots to do across Worcestershire to help your wellbeing.