Mental Health Support

Mental Health Support service offers emotional and practical support to people within Turkish and Kurdish speaking communities with a range of problems and mental health issues.

Our main aims are; giving the individuals the opportunity to explore their personal issues, offering support to prevent crisis, carrying out crisis intervention work, preventing hospital admissions and re-admissions and developing care in the community.

We work with people aged 16-65 with acute mental health problems on an individual basis, in partnership with local mental health teams, hospitals, GPs, and social workers.

What we offer

The service includes crises intervention, maintaining individuals within the community, preventing hospital admissions and developing care in the community. We offer:

• Ongoing support to individuals to prevent difficulties from escalating into crisis
• Support during crises and hospital admissions
• Help in setting up support networks
• To improve patients' access to mental health and social services
• Help to regain their self-confidence and self-esteem and revalidate their skills
• Support in going back or starting education or employment
• Support to take part in community life with their full potential
• Help to run self help groups for support, sometimes with carers

We accept referrals from The Primary health Care Teams, the Locality Mental Health Teams, Social Workers, Social Care Workers, individuals.

For further information please contact us.

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