WellHappy to support young people in London

April 2, 2013 - PRLog -- LONDON: City hall hosted a spectacular evening event to mark the launch of the WellHappy app designed by BrightLemon for myhealthlondon (https://www.myhealth.london.nhs.uk/) and NHS London.

The high profile launch has been supported by celebrities Joss Stone, Ralf Little, Joe Swash and Sadie Frost who have all been involved in promoting the app and site which will help to direct young people where to go when they need help.      

The app and 'Young people' page have been developed to achieve a goal set out in the State of mind manefesto (http://www.youngminds.org.uk/assets/0000/1205/state-of-mind-manifesto.pdf) created for mental health charity, Young Minds. The manefesto, written by young people has been created to pressure decision makers into recognising the needs of young people in London. The manefesto demands "Tell us where to go when we need help", a demand that this project has been constructed to answer,

Charities including CALM (http://www.thecalmzone.net/), Young Minds (http://www.youngminds.org.uk/) and TXTm8 (http://www.txtm8.com/) have contributed content and links to their services so that for the first time these lines to support have been brought together into an easy to access app and site.

This is the first app BrightLemon has been involved in and is proud that it is one that will be able to support young people in London.

The app is now available for free on both Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nhs.wellhappy&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5uaHMud2VsbGhhcHB5Il0) and Apple App Store


ABOUT WELL HAPPY:

Well Happy is a free health app for young people in London. It allows you to search for over a thousand local support services in and around London including mental health, sexual health, drugs, alcohol and stop smoking services.

Well Happy empowers young people to take control of their health and includes a number of useful features including FAQs, jargon busters and information about rights and advocacy. The app also links to the Well Happy website which has lots of other interesting news, information and blogs for young Londoners.

The search facility includes all the mental health, sexual health, drug, alcohol and smoking support services for young people in London. You can search by area or postcode, view results on a map and find a range of information to help you choose the services you might need from time to time.

ABOUT BRIGHTLEMON:

BrightLemon creates social software that has a positive impact on society.

We aim to be the number one bespoke digital community agency in the UK.

By combining expertise in social psychological theory, open source software and user centric design we produce high growth, engaging, personalised communities.
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