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“I’ve learnt and am still learning to embrace my grief” – Karen’s story
Last updated: 10/09/2024
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Peer Support Workers: Exploring Rethink Mental Illness’s Practice
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Peer Support Workers: Exploring Rethink Mental Illness’s Practice A peer support worker is someone with lived experience of a mental health problem who uses their experience to support other people in mental health services. It is a crucial role within a number of Rethink Mental Illness services. In early 2023, we launched our Learning and Insights...
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Gloucestershire Supported Housing - Stroud
Services and Groups |Last updated: 21/07/2023
Our service in Stroud offers independent, quality housing to tenants with mental health needs. We support people to achieve personal goals, offer emotional and practical support with day-to-day living, and help develop skills to live independently in the community in order to build a meaningful quality of life as defined by them. We will: - • Provide a safe and supportive environment • Agree a plan of support with tenants including weekly contact with a key worker • Offer listening, reassurance, guidance and practical assistance, and emotional support • Help people gain skills that can equip them for independent living – • Empower service users and enable them to have their say about the service • Work with other agencies to ensure tenants receive appropriate and well organised support • Create a culture where people of all backgrounds and experiences feel appreciated and valued
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East Kent Peer Support Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 30/10/2024
We are a free support service for people who have any kind of mental health issue (diagnosed or undiagnosed) who are looking for a low-level peer support service and live in the East Kent areas of Thanet, Dover, Folkestone, Hythe, Romney Marsh and Ashford.
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Derbyshire Recovery and Peer Support Service
Services and Groups |Last updated: 28/06/2024
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North Devon Supported Living Services - Gloster Road
Services and Groups |Last updated: 19/02/2024
Gloster Road is a supported living service providing accommodation with support commissioned by Devon Partnership Trust NHS and Devon County Council. We have a friendly, mixed-gender team of Mental Health Recovery Workers who provide 1:1 support to our clients, as well as hosting various group activities and outings. This service is a support and enabling, mental health specific service, providing recovery support to our clients with a goal of moving on to independence within 2 years. We also offer spaces on our Community Outreach team so that clients can continue to be supported in their own homes where needed, with a view to gradually reduce support hours as support needs change. Our staff teams are interlinked, and support planning is carried out in the same way, meaning consistency from one service to the other.
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East Devon Community Outreach
Services and Groups |Last updated: 12/07/2024
Our East Devon Community Outreach service are a team of Mental Health Recovery Workers providing mental health support to those in their own homes in the community. We provide weekly support to those with a support package through Devon Partnership Trust NHS and Devon County Council. We provide recovery based support to meet the needs of the individual.
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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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Work, volunteering and mental illness
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
This section explains your options for finding work or volunteering opportunities. These things can be important for your mental health.
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Salisbury Supported Housing
Services and Groups |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Salisbury Supported Housing, Sydney House is a large Victorian house on the edge of Salisbury City Centre. Sydney House is a low to medium-supported housing scheme for adults with mental health issues. Service users receive up to 10 hours of support a week from Mental Health Recovery Workers to help them work towards moving independently into the community through Homes4Witlshire. Specific person-centered goals tailored to the individuals’ needs are worked towards to support moving independently within a 2-year tenancy. Nine service users have their own rooms and share a large communal area, kitchen, and laundry room. Staff and service users arrange activities in the house, and out in the community. There is a warm and friendly atmosphere in the service where people who have been unwell are supported to gain the skills needed to have a fulfilling and meaningful life. We offer hope and compassion for a positive future for those we work with. The service offers between six- and twelve-weeks outreach support at two hours a week where needed after moving on. Service hours are 9 – 5pm weekdays and bank holidays.
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What our supporters tell us
1 min read |Last updated: 19/06/2024
What our supporters tell us People severely affected by mental illness deserve: the right support, quality housing, meaningful employment, good physical health, social connections, and judgement-free life. That’s why Rethink Mental Illness exists. But are our services, helplines, and peer support groups achieving that for people? We spoke to people...
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Dudley Sanctuary Hub
Services and Groups |Last updated: 12/07/2024
The Sanctuary Hub is a safe place where you can access support outside of usual mental health service hours. Our dedicated team are friendly, warm, enthusiastic, reliable and responsive to individual needs. We are all experienced and trained mental health recovery workers who provide person-centred support. People who use the Sanctuary Hub are at the heart of our vision and we believe everyone should be treated with respect.
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Walsall Sanctuary Hub
Services and Groups |Last updated: 12/07/2024
The Sanctuary Hub is a safe place where you can access support outside of usual mental health service hours. Our dedicated team are friendly, warm, enthusiastic, reliable and responsive to individual needs. We are all experienced and trained mental health recovery workers who provide person-centred support. People who use the Sanctuary Hub are at the heart of our vision and we believe everyone should be treated with respect.
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Doncaster Crisis Accommodation - Outreach
Services and Groups |Last updated: 20/06/2023
The outreach worker post provides support for people leaving the recovery house. The outreach workers aim is to meet the variety of support needs people leaving the recovery house have and provide suitable emotional and practical solutions that meet the recovery outcomes of each individual.
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Respite care - Breaks for carers
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 10/09/2024
Respite means that you have a break from caring. This section explains what respite options may be available to you as a carer. This information is for carers of adults affected by mental illness in England. It’s also for anyone else interested in the subject.
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