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Mental health social care: supporting recovery, promoting independence, changing lives
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Mental health social care: supporting recovery, promoting independence, changing lives Read our new briefing, Mental health social care: supporting recovery, promoting independence, changing lives. With the Prime Minister’s promise in July 2019 to “fix social care, once and for all”, there is a new interest in social care, who uses it and what difference...
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Rethink Liverpool Peer Support Group
Services and Groups |Last updated: 11/04/2025
Struggling to cope? Would you like to meet others who have been through it and will accept you for who you are? Why not come along to our support group and have a cup of tea and a chat? We will provide a non-judgemental listening ear, friendship and social support that can make all the difference when you are trying to cope with life’s challenges. Our support group is run by people who have personal lived experience of mental health issues or have looked after someone who has.Our group provides a welcoming, safe place where people can come and have a chat. We will provide empathy, acceptance and reassurance.
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Demand for mental health advice soars in year after first lockdown
1 min read |Last updated: 23/03/2021
Charity sees surge in demand for mental health advice one year after first national lockdown, and warns that NHS and social care mental health services need to be ready to meet increased demand for support from people whose mental health has been severely impacted by the pandemic. Rethink Mental Illness has reported a significant increase in the number...
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Rethink South West Kent Carers
Services and Groups |Last updated: 14/03/2024
The group aims to support carers and their partners, relatives and friends with a wide range of mental health problems, including accessing the information they need. We offer a safe environment where people feel at ease. The group meetings give carers the opportunity to talk about the issues that are affecting them. We also hold periodic social get togethers for our members. Please contact our group email for more information.
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Social inclusion and mental illness - How can I become more connected?
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
Social inclusion is important for good mental health. This section explains what you can do to be more socially included and who can help you. This information is for adults affected by mental illness in England. It’s also for their carers, friends and relatives and anyone interested in this subject.
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Gloucestershire Mental Health Support and Advice
Services and Groups |Last updated: 19/11/2024
The Mental Health Support and Advice Service aims to improve individual mental health outcomes for Gloucestershire residents with a Serious Mental Illness and/or common mental health conditions. Through a personalised support approach, we seek to reduce the need to access primary and secondary mental health services. To contact the service, please call 07570343767.
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Severe weather and mental health
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
This information is for adults who live with mental illness in England. It is also for their carers, friends and relatives and anyone else interested in the subject.
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Worried about your mental health? How to get treatment and support
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
This section explains how you can get help if you are worried about your mental health. It explains about options for treatment and support. Such as seeing your GP, talking therapy and self-help and support from charities. This section is for anyone worried about their mental health.
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Recovery College Community Inclusion Service (Milton Keynes)
Services and Groups |Last updated: 10/06/2024
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Cavendish Lodge Registered Nursing Home
Services and Groups |Last updated: 20/06/2023
CQC Registered Nursing Home service, for people with a severe and enduring mental illness. The Lodge provides support and recovery services, 24 hrs a day, offering assistance and encouragement in daily living skills, personal support, finances and rehabilitation. Includes experienced management and support teams and a qualified nurse with links to the local mental health and social care team. Staff encourage community involvement in area such as education / learning, employment and social and leisure activities. Cavendish Lodge is a large eight bedded home, situated near to the centre of Leamington Spa, with excellent transport links, health support services and community facilities.
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Thistley Lodge Nursing Home
Services and Groups |Last updated: 20/06/2023
CQC Registered Nursing Home service, for people with a severe and enduring mental illness. The Lodge provides support and recovery services, 24 hrs a day, offering assistance and encouragement in daily living skills, personal support, finances and rehabilitation. Includes experienced management and support teams and a qualified nurse with links to the local mental health and social care team. Staff encourage community involvement in area such as education / learning, employment and social and leisure activities. Thistly Lodge is a large eight bedded home, situated near to the centre of Leamington Spa, with excellent transport links, health support services and community facilities.
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Bristol Carer Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 10/04/2025
Often the person you are supporting is a family member such as a partner, wife, husband, son, daughter or a friend. Whether or not you think you are a ‘carer’, support is available. We help over 200 people a year across Bristol who are looking for advice, support or information.
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Brent Mental Health Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 30/08/2024
The Brent Mental Health service provides support to adults with mental health needs aged 18+, within the Brent borough alongside statutory services. The service has 2 main aspects of delivery which are: • Befriending service utilising volunteers, • Peer Navigators Support,
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Asylum seeker and refugee mental health
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 15/04/2025
This information looks at help for refugee and asylum seekers mental health. It also provides general signposting for further help and advice.
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Suicidal thoughts - How to cope
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 31/03/2025
This section may help you if you are dealing with suicidal thoughts, feelings, or intentions. It has ideas you can try to help you. It explains how you can stay safe, and how you can get support.
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Station Grove
Services and Groups |Last updated: 30/10/2023
Supported housing service with 11 self-contained flats and communal areas in Southport town centre. Medium to low supported housing for individuals with a mental health diagnosis aged 18 and over requiring tenancy, mental health, emotional and living skills support. Service is available Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm. Covers Sefton area. Referral via Sefton CMHT / Social Worker.
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Derbyshire Recovery and Peer Support Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 28/06/2024
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Rethink Advice and Information Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 20/12/2024
Our Advice Service gives practical advice to adults living in England who are affected by mental illness. We advise people with a mental health problem, their friends, families and carers. We advise professionals who may want to know more about mental illness and how they can support the person they are working with. The Advice Service are expertly trained in a range of issues, including; mental health conditions, access to care and treatment, different medications and treatments, individual rights under the Mental Health Act, social care, and welfare benefits. We give advice to carers about their rights and how they can support the person they care for. Calls to our Advice Service cost the same as when you call a local number.
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Survivors of Suicide (SOS) Brighton & Hove
Services and Groups |Last updated: 12/07/2024
The SOS service provides short term emotional support, information and advocacy to people aged 18+ who live in Brighton and Hove, who have thoughts of suicide or have made previous suicide attempts or those who have been bereaved by suicide. We offer psycho-social support to addresses the immediate crisis and provide ongoing support to help you manage your mental well-being. We accept self referrals or referrals from other services. We challenge the stigma attached to suicide by speaking openly about suicide, dispelling myths and giving useful and credible information. We provide support in a number of ways We can provide a range of 121 support. This can include: • Emotional support from our dedicated and qualified staff team • Signposting to other services or forms of help • Advocacy on your behalf should you need it • A recovery focused approach • Safety planning, self-management of pre-triggers. • Opportunities to become a volunteer and share your recovery journey and skills with others going through similar circumstances Our bereavement groups aim • To create a safe and supportive space where suicide bereavement and related issues can be explored • To empower group members to express their feelings • To explore choices and options • To connect people in the community and share experiences • To break down the stigma and taboo that can be associated with suicide and emotional well-being Groups will be maximum of six other members. This group will run with the same members for 5 weekly sessions then 7 monthly sessions, so we can support you for a period of time. We offer evening group sessions for those working or with other day time commitments. We run these groups regularly throughout the year. We offer to meet you individually before you join a group to make sure this is the group for you. You can download our SOS service leaflets and referral form from the 'Our downloads' section below.
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Mendos
Services and Groups |Last updated: 17/07/2023
MENDOS provides support, information and advocacy for people aged 18+ who live in Brighton and Hove, who have mental health challenges who are involved with the criminal justice system. We work with people who are on probation, going through the courts, or have recently been released from prison or discharged from secure psychiatric hospitals. You can download our MENDOS service leaflets and referral form from the 'Our downloads' section below. MENDOS can help you get back into the community after discharge from probation services or prison. Through joint working with other partners and services locally. We can provide a range of support. This can include: • Connect with you through 12 weeks of one-to-one support. • Information about your rights. • Support your learning through education, training or volunteering opportunities. • Support you in being active with information about debts and housing services. • Support with statutory benefits and grants. • Give you self-help tools and coping strategies. • Provide advice and signpost to appropriate services relating to your medication diagnosis and other treatment. • Provide peer support courses / workshops
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