Adult Disability & Mental Health
Utilise the Adult Disability and Mental Health zone area to tap in to a wide variety of resources and guidance to help you to best care for the individuals you support. These resources have been created and sourced in conjunction with local specialists and national guidance. Find contact details and links to local support services in Hertfordshire. For further support contact assistance@hcpa.co.uk.
Invisible
Mental Health Education & other services
Mental Health Conditions
Mental Health Guidance
Mental Health Services
Mental Health Tools & Resources
- Autistica – a guide to looking after your mind
- Crisis, Recovery and Wellness Plans
- Depression Care Pathway
- Herts NHS Trust helpful contacts
- Mental wellbeing staff poster
- MIND – Autism & Mental Health
- MIND – Mental health information & support
- NHS – mental health in social care
- NHS – overview in mental health
- Trauma Informed Approaches and becoming a trauma informed organisation
Learning Disabilities
Health Services & Wellbeing for Learning Disabilities
- Annual Health Checks
- Cancer Screening
- End of life care for people with learning disabilities and Autism
- Mencap – Disability charity
- Menopause
- Purple Folder
- Oral Health
- Sense – Disability charity
- STOMP
- Weight Management
- Hertfordshire Guidance – Risk & support protocol for GP health care access
- Hertfordshire Disability Service Learning Disability Nursing Service
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
Other useful resources
Communication and Language
- Communicating about disability guide
- Communicating about mental health guide
- Communication about neurodiversity guide
- Communicating about people who draw on care and support guide
- Deaf Enhanced Support Services (Primary Health Care) – Providing online remote interpreting access within non-emergency health care settings, clear two-way access to communication between Deaf BSL users & health care professionals available free via DA Languages.
- Hertfordshire Sensory Strategy 2020-23: The vision of the Sensory Strategy is to “provide services of excellence, to support deaf, deafblind and sight impaired people of all ages to be independent, to have choice and control and to participate fully in society.”
- NHS Accessible Information Standard – making our health and social care information accessible for people with learning disabilities, sensory loss and/or other communication needs.
- Pathway of Services for children and young people with sensory needs – toolkit for navigating sensory services in Hertfordshire.
- Sensory Factsheets for children & adults with Sensory Needs including Deaf & Hard of hearing Directory and Factsheets available in BSL.
Get in touch
Send us a message and we will get back to you as soon as we can, or you can give us a call on 01707 536 020