Staying Healthy. New Mental Well being Service
New service for mental wellbeing in East Sussex
In October 2012, Together opened four‘ Your Way’ wellbeing hubs in Sussex. Their aim is to promote people’ s mental wellbeing and support people on their journey to recovery.
Your Way offers flexible, personalised mental health day support and guidance. Whether people want to learn to manage their illness, return to work, enter education, find new hobbies and social activities, solve housing issues, make friends or organise their finances, they can help people plan for their future and build structures that will help them stay well.
People are welcome to access support from their staff in the best way that suits them. For some people, going along to one of their daily dropins provides regular social contact and familiar surroundings; other people may prefer to meet a worker out in the community or sometimes just keep in touch by phone. Their aim is to meet people’ s needs as best as they can in a variety of ways.
Together values the input of people’ s families and carers as part of their support and recovery networks. With this in mind, they are looking to provide courses for carers of people with mental health problems later this year.
For more information visit theYour Way pages on Together’ s website at: www. together-uk. org / ourmental-health-services / your-way /
Or contact one of the Your Way hubs directly:
Lewes 01273 475219 lewes-yourway @ together-uk. org
Newhaven 01273 514753 newhaven-yourway @ together-uk. org
Hastings 01424 434886 hastings-yourway @ together-uk. org
Bexhill 01424 213099 bexhill-yourway @ together-uk. org
New survey to gather views of carers of people with dementia
If you care for someone with dementia, or if you used to, you are invited to complete a survey which is part of a new research project, commissioned by Carers
Trust, to help understand the needs of carers and improve future services for them.
Thea Stein, Chief Executive of Carers Trust, said:“ Carers support people with dementia to stay independent for as long as possible, and when the dementia advances, they provide support which delays the costs of residential care. However many carers say they feel unsupported and uninformed on the condition of the person they care for.“
To find out more, and to complete the survey online, visit: www. carers. org / news / newsurvey-gather-views-carerspeople-dementia
Alternatively, to receive a copy of the survey in the post, call Martin or Liz at Firefly Research on 01653 691351
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