Our aim is to help people in Derby and Derbyshire to take control of their sexual and reproductive health. That includes young people. 

If you’re a sexual health professional, we can help you in your work with teens. As well as pregnancy prevention and support services, there’s advice across our website. This includes advice about having sex for the first time and consent. They can also get one-to-one support with any sexual health issues from one of our sexual health promotion practitioners. 

Children aged 13 to 15 will have a safeguarding check with a trained worker before we can help them. If a child is 12 or under and tells us they’ve had sex we will refer this to our specialist safeguarding team.

We offer services online, in our clinics and through community outreach, to give people better access to free sexual healthcare, which includes pregnancy prevention. You can get involved in some of our schemes or signpost young people to them.

Free condom schemes 

Accessible collection points in the community help break down the barriers that prevent people having safe sex. We also give out free condoms to venues across Derbyshire, such as youth clubs, and community and faith centres. 

Find out more about free condom schemes and how your organisation could get involved. 

Free and emergency contraception 

Anyone living in Derby and Derbyshire can access free contraception and emergency contraception. Young people can access this online, or at one of our clinics. The exact approach will depend on their age.

Find out more about our contraception and emergency contraception services.

Outreach van

Our outreach van acts as a mobile clinic so that more people in the community can access our services. It can help young people who might not be able to get to our static clinics.

Find out more about our van and how it could help your organisation.

Training 

We can help you talk to teens about their sexual health and wellbeing. This includes supplying free condoms and advising about pregnancy and STIs.

Find out about our training courses.

Anyone who has an unplanned pregnancy can come to us for free, confidential advice and support. That includes teenagers. We will talk through all their options with zero judgement or pressure.

Find out about our pregnancy advice service.

There are other services that can help you support a teen who’s pregnant. They can also access them direct. 

The National Teenage Pregnancy Midwifery Network

Founded by two teenage pregnancy specialist midwives, the National Teenage Pregnancy Midwifery Network offers resources for professionals and young parents-to-be.

Derbyshire Teen Health

Derbyshire Teen Health provides health information for teenagers, including sexual health advice and support.

Chat Health

Chat Health is a text messaging advice service for young people, parents and carers living in Derby. School nurses and health visitors provide confidential health advice and support on topics such as sexual health, relationships and emotional health. 

Sure Start and Healthy Start

Sure Start gives those who are eligible a grant of £500 to help with the costs of having a child. Healthy Start is a scheme to help people buy food and milk while they’re pregnant.

Live Life Better Derbyshire

Live Life Better Derbyshire offers friendly, judgement-free support to help people and families live healthy lives. This includes help to stop smoking in pregnancy.

Kooth

Kooth offers free, safe and anonymous online mental health support for young people aged 11 to 25 in Derby and Derbyshire. It includes counselling, advice and peer support.

Relate

Relate offers young people's counselling for those who are having relationship or mental health problems. There are local centres in Derby and Chesterfield. Find them through the centre finder.