Supporting your mental health and emotional wellbeing

Advice and Information - 26 August 2020

Supporting people with their mental health has never been more important, as many struggle to deal with the Covid-19 lockdown.
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New resources to help anyone in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland access urgent and non-urgent mental health support when they need it have been made available:

LPT contact card

This contact card providing contact information for people of all ages has been translated into Leicestershire Partnership Trust’s (LPT) top 10 requested languages in addition to English.

These are: Gujarati, Polish, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Kurdish, Arabic, Somali, Romanian

Find out more 

All are available to download from LPT’s public website on a new dedicated page

The information is also provided as an audio file and via YouTube as a graphic with audio and we’re asking everyone in our local communities to help share the translated resources widely through their local WhatsApp groups, social media networks, families, friends and community links.

The LPT website includes information about urgent mental health support and a detailed page of resources with local NHS and non-NHS support, national and local websites, self-help apps, national helplines and resources.

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