Health & Wellbeing

Helen Hayes MP visits the Nest, Southwark’s mental health hub for young people

The Nest recently welcomed Southwark MP, Helen Hayes MP. She was joined by the council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Children, Young People, Education and Refugees, Cllr Jasmine Ali.

They met with members of staff

at the service’s drop-in centre in Peckham to discuss the mental health support provided to young people through the Nest, and the work the Nest have been doing in Southwark schools.

The Nest first launched in May 2020 to provide early intervention and prevention for emotional issues and low-level mental health concerns. The service is funded by the council and run by the charity Groundwork London. Under the Youth New Deal, Southwark Council invested £200,000 to take the Nest service directly into schools to help ensure young people’s mental health and wellbeing needs are met, particularly considering the extra challenges caused by the pandemic. This service has been delivered since October 2021. The Nest is a key component of the council’s commitment that 100 per cent of children and young people in Southwark have access to mental health support.

For more information about mental health support in Southwark for children and young people, call free on 020 8138 1805 or visit www.thenestsouthwark.org.uk

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New Year, New Goals

It has always been known that the onset of negative moods for some can be felt more greatly at the start of the year, normally around January. After the hype of the festive season, being around family and loved ones for long periods of time, some people’s mood can drop with the imminent new year on the horizon.

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be called the “January Blues and Blue Monday”. This negative outlook is attributed because of bad/ cold weather, shorter hours of daylight, the start of another year, carrying your troubles into a new year and not knowing what lies ahead can be daunting.

So how can we help to change our mindset to a more positive state for this time of the year and to ensure it has continuity. Rather than looking at it as a time of negativity, it should be focused upon as a time for a new start, new change and new beginnings. This can be achieved by setting realistic goals rather than new year resolutions and making them ones that are achievable. For example, losing weight, rather than set goals to lose unrealistic amounts of weight in a short period of time, start the goal with the loss of weight, being small and increase the weight loss gradually. This way you are more likely to stick to the goal and have a better realistic chance of achieving it. Whereas if you set your sights too high, you’re less likely to achieve them and this will contribute to your low mood and make the goals inconsequential. This will also feed into your negative mood and can make you feel justified that the goal setting exercise was never going to work in the first place. The importance of setting goals is imperative in having a positive mindset. This is because when you set a realistic goal it gives you something to focus and aim towards, also when you achieve it, the motivation and confidence within builds and inspires you to continue and set further goals. We all deserve to have something to look forward to because that incentivises us to know we have something planned in the future which we are aiming towards. This can be a short break, meeting up with friends, attending a spa day/retreat. All these motivate you to look forward rather than focusing on the past.

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