Kettering Mind launches pilot service for students

It's been designed to help students whose mental health has been negatively affected during the pandemic
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A Kettering mental health charity is launching a pilot service to help students who struggling during the Covid pandemic.

Kettering Mind has designed the free mental health and wellbeing service to help students across Northamptonshire, aiming to support them in finding the resilience to cope with issues such as loneliness, academic pressures, organisational skills, coping with anxiety, and managing mental health in general.

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To do this, the service will provide students with up to three one-to-one sessions with a mentor, online facilitated peer support sessions allowing students to socialise in a safe and confidential setting with others who may be experiencing similar difficulties, and mental health and wellbeing workshops to student groups over Zoom.

The service will also be continually developed as it goes on, with new sessions potentially being added if they are needed.

It will be available to students from Northamptonshire aged 16 years or older who are studying anywhere in the country at sixth form, college or university.

Steph Orr, resource centre team leader at Kettering Mind, said: “Whether students have an existing mental health problem, or they’re starting to find things difficult, the pandemic has put a huge amount of extra strain on them.

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“We're proud to be able to deliver this key mental health and wellbeing service to students in Northamptonshire at a time when they most need it.

“To access the new service, all students need to do is download our application form from our website and send it back to us. We will then contact the student to discuss what support they feel they need.

“I would encourage any students in Northamptonshire who feel like they need a bit of extra support at this difficult time to get in touch with us.”

The pilot project is grant-funded by the Pears Foundation/Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Emergency Fund until March 31.

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Any student wishing to access the service should fill out an application form and can download one direct from the website at www.ketteringmind.org.uk.

Alternatively they can contact Kettering Mind via email at [email protected] or phone 01536 523216 and ask for a student service application form.