Suffolk Youth and Parent Support Group
For young people with long-term illnesses and their parents
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ME Awareness Week Photos, 2002
ME Awareness Week Photos, 2003
ME Awareness Week Photos, 2006
Useful Related Web Sites
- Pupiline
Pupiline Features: issues and advice on bullying, sex, drugs, exam stress, food, friends, family - www.pupiline.net
- Association of Young People with ME (AYME)
- www.ayme.org.uk
- Tymes Trust
"The Tymes Trust is a respected national voluntary charity offering a friendly, personalised service for children and young people with ME and their families. It is committed to providing continued and expanding high quality services, whilst maintaining a long established personal approach, specialising in providing practical solutions to problems."
Prime Minister Tony Blair
- www.youngactiononline.com
- Action For ME
- www.afme.org.uk
- The ME Association
- www.meassociation.org.uk
- Joint DfES and DOH statutory guidelines for sick children:
- Access to Education for Children and Young People with Medical Needs
- www.dfes.gov.uk/sickchildren
- The DfES has produced a guidance document to promote children's mental health and to intervene effectively with those children experiencing problems.
- www.dfes.gov.uk/mentalhealth/
- The Colchester Mesh Group, a registered charity serving sufferers (family and friends), including a new appeal for people under the age of 30
- www.colchester-mesh.org.uk
- Framlingham and District ME Group
- myweb.tiscali.co.uk/framdistrictmegroup
- NEW
Suffolk Carers
"If you spend time looking after a relative, child, partner or friend who is frail, ill or who has a physical disability or mental health problem, then you are a Carer!"
Helpline: 01473 232679 - www.suffolk-carers.co.uk
- Benefits and Work
Disability benefits news, guides and resources for claimants, carers and support workers.
Some resources are free, others are available only to subscribing members.
Run by a welfare rights worker and a qualified barrister - www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
Young People's Web Sites and Telephone Numbers
- Connexions Suffolk
A new information and advice service for young people aged 14 to 19 (up to their 20th birthday), with a network of personal advisors. They will also help those with additional needs up to the age of 25.
The Personal Advisors provide confidential and independent advice and information to help young people tackle the questions and issues that affect their lives.
Tom Griffiths phone 01473 581449 - www.thesource.me.uk
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