{"id":128573,"date":"2025-08-08T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128573\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:23:08","slug":"sussex-students-reminded-of-text-mental-health-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128573\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex students reminded of text mental health service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Waiting for and receiving exam results can be an anxious time for young people. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The digital support project is a collaboration between SPFT and Shout, a free 24\/7 mental health messaging service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The text-based support service launched in Sussex in 2022 and is open to all ages throughout the year, but the trust said it had logged significant uptake in use when targeted to students around exams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SPFT said it saw a 51% increase in engagement in October 2023 after targeting students starting university and a 34% increase in engagement when measured again near exam results time in August 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said low mood, suicidal thoughts and stress were among the top reasons people had contacted the service in the past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Text SUSSEX signposts users to other services, including the Staying Well Crisis service and those at imminent risk of potential harm can see the matter escalated to Sussex Police.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Students will receive their AS, A-level and T-level results on Thursday and GCSE results day will follow on 21 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;Waiting for and receiving exam results can be an anxious time for young people. &#8220; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[210,517,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-128573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114992185989975584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}