Service Users and Carers / Relatives Projects

 

Click here to visit service user and carer group pages and find out more about the groups in Devon and how you can get involved.

Below is a list of the service user and carer projects that operate within Devon and their contact details. Please read the referral pages if you wish to use them to ensure that you meet the requirements of the project. The email addresses are listed with "at" instead of @. This is to try and prevent spam emails being sent. To send an email please copy the email address in to your email program replacing the @ for "at". Thank you.

District
Group*
Group Name
Project Coordinator
Contact Details
Referral Criteria
East Devon
SU
 "Saplings"
East Devon Mental Health Self-Advocacy Project,		 Ed Coutts

Ridgeway House,
The Ridgeway
Ottery St Mary
Devon
T: 01404 549113
F: 01404 549508
E: ed"at"edvsa.org.uk
W: www.edvsa.org.uk

 For those using the mental health services in East Devon
CR
 East Devon Carers & Relatives Project Meg Compton MIND East Devon Project
The Haven
32 - 34 High Street
Honiton EX14 1PU
T: 01404 549508
F: 01404 42243
E: carers"at"mindeastdevon.org.uk
W: www.mindex.org.uk		 For those who care for a relative with serious mental health problems
Covers:
Adults
Exeter
SU
 Exeter Mental Health Service User Project Charlotte Hubbard Exeter Council for Voluntary Service
Wat Tyler House
King William Street
Exeter EX4 6PD
T: 01392 201218
F: 01392 202054
E: charlotte.hubbard"at"exetercvs.org.uk
W: www.exetercvs.org.uk

For those that use adult mental health services in Exeter

Enabling and encouraging 'service users' to have a say in the development of mental health services.

Click to view the project leaflet
CR
 Relatives Forum Mel Chamberlain MIND in Exeter and East Devon Ltd.
59 Magdalen Road
Exeter EX2 4HY
T: 01392 204498
F: 01392 204494
E: melsupport.mind"at"btopenworld.com
W: www.mindex.org.uk
W: www.exeter-relatives-forum.org.uk		 A support group for relatives of people with mental health problems
Mid Devon
SU
 Be Heard for Mental Health Paula Kovacs


7 Market Street
Crediton
Devon EX17 2EE
T: 01363 777208
E: coordinator"at"beheard.demon.co.uk
W: http://www.beheard4mentalhealth.org.uk

  Meetings are held every month between 11am - 3pm at The Boniface Centre, Crediton
CR
 Mid Devon Carers Support Workers

Jan Adkins

Okehampton
and Crediton

 Crediton Social Services,
Market Street,
Crediton,
Devon EX172AJ
Telephone 01392 384179
E: jan.adkins"at"devon.gov.uk
E: lorraine.mee"at"devon.gov.uk

Open to any carer or relative supporting someone with mental ill-health

 

Lorraine Mee

Tiverton area
North Devon
SU
 Barnstaple Wellness Group Barnstaple and North DevonArea

Contact: renitab"at"hotmail.com

or 07980123391

for information on when and where we meet

The Wellness Support group is open to all who have an active WRAP Plan and the intention of using it to maintain their wellness.

We meet on Tuesday every week from 11 - 1pm.

The group is user led and facilitated, there are no memebers of staff present.
CR
Information not currently available.
South and West Devon
SU
 Service User/Carer Network, South & West Devon Janet Hooper & Pennie Evans

Service User/Carer Involvement Workers (Mental Health)  

St Michaels
Newton Abbot Hospital
62 East St.
Newton Abbot
TQ12 4PT

T: 01803 861974
07825 027685 (Janet)
07866 766830 (Pennie)
E: janet.hooper"at"nhs.net
E: Pennie.Evans"at"nhs.net

Open to anyone using adult mental health services and their families/carers.

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* SU =Service User Group CR = Carers / Relatives Group

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