North East Prisons Park House

• DL15 8QX, 22 miles from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

County Durham Advocacy Service provides independent individual advocacy support and representation to service users. This involves ascertaining service users' wishes, feelings, beliefs, and values both verbally (for example during care review meetings or other care and support meetings) and in writing (for example writing letters on behalf of service users). This service is free to access and independent of other services.

• DL15 8QX, 22 miles from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

County Durham Advocacy Service for adults in county Durham providing the following: Community Advocacy Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) Independent Mental Health Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) Independent Care Act Advocacy (ICAA) Relevant person's Representative Service (RPR)

• DL15 8QX, 22 miles from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

County Durham Advocacy Service provides independent individual advocacy support for people facing certain decisions in their life where they are deemed to lack capacity to make certain decisions and have no one appropriate to consult with around these decisions. This involves ascertaining service users' wishes, feelings, beliefs, and values both verbally (for example, facing decision regarding serious medical treatment, change of accommodation decisions, during care review meetings or Adult Safeguarding) We will be independent of the person making the decision, provide support for the person who lacks capacity, representing the person within meetings and within a report in the person’s best interest, question and challenge any relevant decision that appears not to be in that person’s best interest. This service is free to access and independent of other services.

• DL15 8QX, 22 miles from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

Durham CC LD project will refer service users to us whose placements/ care and support they are reviewing as part of their project work whom they feel will benefit from advocacy support throughout such

• DL15 8QX, 22 miles from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

County Durham Advocacy Service provides independent individual advocacy support for people facing certain decisions in their life where they are deemed to lack capacity to make certain decisions and have no one appropriate to consult with around these decisions. This involves ascertaining service users' wishes, feelings, beliefs, and values both verbally (for example, facing decision regarding serious medical treatment, change of accommodation decisions, during care review meetings or Adult Safeguarding) We will be independent of the person making the decision, provide support for the person who lacks capacity, representing the person within meetings and within a report in the person’s best interest, question and challenge any relevant decision that appears not to be in that person’s best interest. This service is free to access and independent of other services.

• DL15 8QX, 22 miles from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

County Durham Advocacy Service provides independent individual advocacy support and representation to service users. This involves ascertaining service users' wishes, feelings, beliefs, and values both verbally (for example during care review meetings or other care and support meetings) and in writing (for example writing letters on behalf of service users). County Durham Advocacy Service has also been commissioned to provide IMHA (Independent Mental Health Advocacy) for anyone one who lives in County Durham, is detained and the Mental Health Act 1983 and has the right to an advocate. This involves making sure those detained are aware of their rights, supporting them in getting their views across to their care team, attending Ward Rounds and Tribunals and helping them access their medical notes. This service is free to access and independent of other services.

• DL15 8QX, 22 miles from this service
• Tag: Advocacy

County Durham Advocacy Service provides independent individual advocacy support and representation to service users. This involves ascertaining service users' wishes, feelings, beliefs, and values both verbally (for example during care review meetings or other care and support meetings) and in writing (for example writing letters on behalf of service users) Specialist Mental Health advocacy provides advocacy to adults with a registered GP in County Durham and/or using mental health and/or social care services in County Durham who feel disadvantaged as a result of their mental health difficulties. The advocacy deals directly with issues relating to mental health treatment and care and cannot include such areas as benefits and financial matters. This service is free to access and independent of other services.

• NE11 0NJ, 28 miles from this service
• Tag: Criminal justice

The PAT dog project is a pilot funded by the Ministry of Justice to pilot the role of therapeutic dogs in the safeguarding process within the prisons (Commonly known as ACCT)

• NE11 0NJ, 28 miles from this service
• Tag: Criminal justice

Rethink Mental Illness provide psychological therapy, namely IAPT Step 1 and 2 services, in line with national best practice, for prisoners in the following North East Prisons - HMP Durham, HMP Frankland, HMP Holme House, HMP Northumberland, HMYOI Deerbolt, HMP Kirklevington Grange and HMP & YOI Low Newton. Focusing on health education and self-help, we provide evidence based, low intensity interventions, based on CBT principles which focus on empowerment and self-management of common mental illnesses while in custody and on release. Rethink Mental Illness also provide a mental health care navigator service, supporting patients six-eight weeks prior to release and up to one month after release, following people’s care and ensuring the best possible chance for successful release, both in terms of reducing reoffending and stability of their mental health.