Community Restart - Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

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The Vision
‘‘Health and social care services have a key role in tackling the social
exclusion that people with mental health problems experience. Being able
to access and use mainstream community services, like college or arts and
sports activities, can improve confidence and self esteem. The opportunity
to meet new people and create a network of friends plays a critical role in
promoting well being‘‘
What is Community
Restart?
Key Facts about social
inclusion
Community Restart is a modern, forward
thinking service that has co-production
with service users at its heart. It is
dedicated to improving quality of
life, promoting opportunities and
improving the outcome for people across
Lancashire.
11.3m people are predicted to be living
on their own in England by 2033,
necessitating the need for increased
social inclusion and cohesion (The King’s
Fund).
Community Restart works in partnership
with people who access the service,
carers, mental health specialists,
employment providers, housing services,
third sector agencies, sports and arts
communities, education providers and
environmental agencies to provide
the opportunities and community
connections for individuals to improve
their health and wellbeing.
Access to the service is based on
the complexity of the individuals’
employment and social inclusion needs,
and not the degree and nature of mental
ill health or symptoms. If you think
‘Community Restart’ can provide the
support you require then please contact
your mental health worker or contact us
directly for information.
One of the reasons loneliness is so bad
for us is because it makes it harder for
us to control our habits and behaviour.
Evidence suggests that the expectation
of isolation reduces our willpower and
perseverance, and makes it harder to
regulate our behaviour (The Lonely
Society, Mental Health Foundation, 2009).
Social isolation adversely impacts on both
physical and mental health, including
suicide.
Failure of social inclusion leads to social
fragmentation and polarisation, widening
disparities and inequalities, and straining
individuals, families, communities and
institutions (World Summit for Social
Development).
People with more severe forms of mental
illness have smaller social networks
than others, have relatively more family
members than friends in their social circle,
and have relationships that are more
dependent rather than interdependent.
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Equality and Diversity
Housing
The Community Restart service
constantly and consistently seeks to
champion equality and diversity and
promote the rights of people who
access the service.
This team works across the East Lancashire
region, addressing the needs of families
and adult, where homelessness presents
in conjunction with an identified mental
health issue.
The service also provides support in
response to service users who are homeless
or living in temporary or insecure
accommodation.
In undertaking this there is an
acceptance that people who experience
mental ill health and distress are
particularly vulnerable.
To achieve positive outcomes the team
work with numerous partners and these
can include various housing providers,
supported accommodation services,
benefits agencies, specialist mental health
services and third sector organisation linked
to homelessness and advocacy.
In seeking to promote equality the
service provides:
• Social inclusion support linking
people to communities of their
choice
• Signpost and guide people to
appropriate supports and services
• Individual support when required
• Information, advice and guidance
for individuals to respond to
inequalities, promote diversity and
eliminate discrimination
Key elements of the works links to: finding
accommodation/housing; deposits and
bond schemes; mediation; repairs; tenancy
support; debt and budgeting.
Geographically, the team work across the
East Lancashire region, providing support
to people in:
• Burnley
• Ribble Valley
• Hyndburn
• Rossendale
• Pendle
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Sport & Leisure
Service User Development
We provide support to offer
opportunities for people to access local
leisure centres, activity groups, and
health and wellbeing schemes aimed
at improving lifestyle though sport and
leisure.
What do we do?
The Service User Development Team is
unique in the way it works, providing
guidance to individuals and groups to
establish their role and purpose within
local communities.
Our aim is to liaise with local
organisations and groups that can help
improve health and wellbeing through
leisure, sport and recreation. These
options can support people to develop
social skills in a health and leisure
environment, facilitating involvement
within community based settings.
Our work includes:
Group activity: supporting the formation
of peer support, activity and social groups.
Project Development: sharing our
experience of planning, developing and
sustaining projects.
Information, advice and guidance: linked
to: establishing committees; developing
constitutions; funding applications;
sourcing venues; creating volunteer
pathways.
The local knowledge of sport and
leisure in the community held by
Community Restart also provides an
excellent opportunity for signposting
individuals into appropriate groups,
organisations and schemes. These
can help increase social networks and
enhance social inclusion.
Our core aim is to support the
establishment of groups, facilitate
independence and enable them to
become valued assets within local
communities.
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Employment
Voluntary Work
The employment team provides
information, advice, guidance and
practical support linked to paid
employment opportunities, which
includes:
For many people volunteering offers an
excellent opportunity to connect with
the local community.
Some consider it to be a way of
contributing back to the community
or making a difference to the people
around them.
• Employment skills training
• Assisting in completion of
application forms
For others it provides an opportunity to
develop new skills or build on existing
experience and knowledge.
• Assisting with job searches
• Attending job interviews
Regardless of the motivation, it is an
option that can be both challenging and
rewarding.
• On job support
• Attending meetings with employers
(retention)
Other reasons for volunteering include:
• Integrated working with local job
centres
• Developing increased confidence
and self-esteem
The service operates throughout Central
Lancashire and East Lancashire
• Feel valued and part of a team
• Gaining work experience and
adding valuable evidence for CVs
• Meeting new people and making new
friends
• Gaining new skills, knowledge and
experience
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Education and Training
Arts and Culture
Community Restart is able to provide
information, advice and guidance,
enabling people to access a range of
training and education opportunities.
To undertake this effectively the service
works closely with:
Involvement in arts and culture is widely
considered to have a positive impact on
mental health and provides a means of
self expression.
Community Restart has wide and
diverse links to art communities across
Lancashire, providing many creative
opportunities for people to follow their
interest and become involved.
• Colleges
• Universities
• Adult Learning Centres
• Distance learning
Our core aim is to enable people to
source options linked to the creative,
visual and performing arts, and
wherever possible support people
accessing the service to integrate ,
express themselves and become socially
included within a creative communities.
Whichever pathway people choose
around education and training, the
service is committed to ensure that
people receive the right support to
access, sustain participation in and
maximise the potential of the course
they undertake.
Typical opportunities include:
Community Restart has enabled
people to:
• Creative writing
• Art projects and groups
• Reading groups
• Music groups
• Mosaic and pottery
• Find appropriate courses
• Source funding options
• Receive additional support to ensure people remain in education and training
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Eco Activities
Partnership Working
Community Restart works with the
local agricultural, horticultural and rural
communities within Lancashire to develop
and maintain a range of voluntary and
“ecotherapeutic” opportunities for people
who access the service.
The Community Restart Service is
characterised by partnerships and joint
working. Fundamentally the service
has sought to shift the service away
from historical models that focused on
needs and deficits, to one of personal
aspiration, which promotes individual
talents, skills and assets.
The approach links naturally to asset
base development and continues to
deliver innovative and creative options,
particularly around volunteering.
Key to this is the delivery model
established in Central Lancashire,
which is delivered by Lancashire Care
NHS Foundation Trust in partnership
with Making Space and Richmond
Fellowship, two organisations from the
Volunteer Community and Faith Sector
(VCFS).
Therapeutic benefits are delivered through:
• Use of land-based activities
connected to nature, for the
enhancement of people’s
psychological and physical
wellbeing.
• Fresh and innovative approaches to
supporting mental wellbeing health
care based on the fundamental
connections we all have to nature
• Corresponding with new directions
within the NHS in encouraging
complementary, non-medicalised
approaches to recovery
All partners have a profound and
enduring conviction in the tenets of
social inclusion as a means to promote
recovery. Our experience to date
evidences the importance of joint
initiatives with partners and how these
can effectively challenge traditional
perspectives linked to mental ill health.
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Other sources of information:
The Mental Health Helpline
This provides an information and listening service for
people in Lancashire. It is available between 7:00pm
and 11:00pm Mondays to Fridays and from 12:00 noon
East Lancashire
until 12:00 midnight on Saturdays and Sundays.
Burnley
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service for people
in Lancashire.
It is available between 7.00pm
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