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Children and Young People: LGBT+ Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
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West Sussex County Council are working with a number of health, care and voluntary sector organisations to carry out a needs assessment for LGBT+ children and young people in the county. We want to understand your experiences of mental health and emotional wellbeing and accessing support locally. This will help us improve local services.
We want to hear from you if you live or study in the county of West Sussex, are 25 and under, and are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or exploring your sexual orientation and/or gender identity (LGBT+).
We want to hear from a diverse range of community members. This could include communities such as those who are LGBT+ and with disabilities and/or neurodivergence, community members who are Black and/or People of Colour, Gypsy and Traveller communities, and those with a variation in sex characteristics.
This page includes links to support services which you can access for free and confidential advice around mental health, wellbeing, gender identity and sexual orientation.
Below is a survey which you can fill out to help us understand your view and experiences. The survey closes at midnight on Sunday 18th June 2023.
This work will be published later in 2023 on the West Sussex Public Health website (www.jsna.westsussex.gov.uk)
West Sussex County Council are working with a number of health, care and voluntary sector organisations to carry out a needs assessment for LGBT+ children and young people in the county. We want to understand your experiences of mental health and emotional wellbeing and accessing support locally. This will help us improve local services.
We want to hear from you if you live or study in the county of West Sussex, are 25 and under, and are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or exploring your sexual orientation and/or gender identity (LGBT+).
We want to hear from a diverse range of community members. This could include communities such as those who are LGBT+ and with disabilities and/or neurodivergence, community members who are Black and/or People of Colour, Gypsy and Traveller communities, and those with a variation in sex characteristics.
This page includes links to support services which you can access for free and confidential advice around mental health, wellbeing, gender identity and sexual orientation.
Below is a survey which you can fill out to help us understand your view and experiences. The survey closes at midnight on Sunday 18th June 2023.
This work will be published later in 2023 on the West Sussex Public Health website (www.jsna.westsussex.gov.uk)
This survey is designed to capture the views and experiences of children and young people in West Sussex who identify as LGBT+ around their mental health and emotional wellbeing, with the aim of improving support services for young people.
It should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. These questions ask you about issues which positively or negatively affect your wellbeing. Thinking about these can sometimes be challenging. If you find a question upsetting, leave it blank, and remember support services are available and are listed on the main project page. You can withdraw at any point during the survey and do not have to submit your responses.
By taking part, you will be giving consent for your responses to be used anonymously. We won’t ask for your name during the survey and any identifiable information will be removed. Responses will be stored on secure databases for no more than two years and then deleted.
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If you require any of this information in an alternative format, then please contact us via email at robert.whitehead@westsussex.gov.uk or by phone on 033022 25371 and we will assist you. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have an NGT texting app installed on your computer, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 033022 25371.
We are committed to making this website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. Please view the West Sussex County Council Accessibility Statement, for further details. Information about the accessibility of the Your Voice Engagement Hub can be found by clicking on the 'Accessibility tab' which can be found at the bottom of this page. Where it exists, we will provide details of any project-related content which is not fully accessible under a heading of 'Non-accessible content' below.
We are always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us at haveyoursay@westsussex.gov.uk.
Data Privacy Statement
West Sussex County Council’s Public Health team will collect some personal data in this survey to help us understand the characteristics of people completing it. The data will be processed in accordance with the 2018 Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulations, and any subsequent data protection legislation.
The data we collect will not be used for any purpose other than that stated above without your prior written consent. The data we collect will be securely stored by us for a period of up to two years before being appropriately destroyed.
West Sussex County Council is registered as Data Controller (Reg. No. Z6413427). For further details and information about our Data Controller, please see the West Sussex County Council Privacy Policy.
