Welcome to our regular round-up, collected by our Community Development Team from their work around Devon. Here you’ll find items that support your personal recovery, volunteering, jobs, training courses, and research requests.
Have something you’d like us to add next time? Get in touch!
What have we been up to?
October has been a memorable month for us as we hosted our Recovery Day 2023 and celebrated our 20th Anniversary at Belmont Park, Exeter. See our blog post here for a summary of the day.
It was a special event hosted by our co-directors Sami and Jody, with the help and support of our administrator, Julia. The day was filled with hearing warming recovery stories and presentations from some of our community development fund winners. St Sidwells Community centre kindly catered for us to include refreshments and a delicious lunch of soup and pizzas! A huge thank you to our wonderful speakers and all who attended.
Jody has been excited to be back doing monthly Wellbeing Wednesday Café at Barnstaple Library and will there again on 15th November and 13th December. Please do come along and join us for a cuppa – if you’re still around at 12 the library is also serving soup!
What’s Happening in November?
Email peersupport@devoncarers.org.uk to register for a session or learn more here: https://devoncarers.org.uk/support/peer-support/
Email peersupport@devoncarers.org.uk to register for a session or learn more here: https://devoncarers.org.uk/support/peer-support/
Join Devon Carers for a FREE two-part workshop focusing on self-care, getting the best out of the NHS, coping emotionally and discuss feelings that may arise in your role as an adult carer of people 18 years plus.
To learn more or register your place, email workshops@devoncarers.org.uk or visit: https://devoncarers.org.uk/support/training/online-training/
The free 3-part course explores the ‘science’ around anxiety, including the fight/flight/freeze response; identifying our own anxiety triggers and exploring ways to manage symptoms, and overcome our fears through ‘graded exposure’.
The course is open to adults living in the Devon area and you must be able to attend all three sessions.
To book tel: 07531870203 email: transitions@eci.org or visit Eventbrite at
https://ow.ly/hz3850Q2Hfq
Try it here: https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/therapguide/
𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮, 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗲 & 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 course. Tuesday 28 November 2023 10:00am — 4:30pm at Together Drug & Alcohol Services.
Find out more and book your place now: https://loom.ly/9R5G-tY
Join us at Exeter Phoenix on Thursday 23rd November for our FREE Carers Rights Day Information Fair 10am to 4pm.
Drop in throughout the day to chat to us about our FREE support services for unpaid carers. We are also joined by fantastic local organisations who are there to support YOU, so do pop along to chat over refreshments to us all!
For more information visit: https://devoncarers.org.uk/…/my…/carers-rights-day/
Job Opportunities
13th & 14th November 2023 (Kingskerswell)
11th, 12th, 18th & 19th January 2024 (Virtual via MS Teams)
Please get in touch if you are interested in the Volunteer HOPE Facilitator role – email hope.devon@nhs.net or call 01803 320600
Do you have the vision, energy and passion to deliver support to survivors of sexual violence?
Would you like to work for a vibrant feminist organisation?
Could you use your skills to help support survivors of sexual violence?
We are looking a dynamic women who will help our organisation grow so we can support more people.
For more information and to apply follow this link https://devonrapecrisis.org.uk/support-us/careers/
There is an exciting opportunity for a Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist to join the Devon Wellbeing Hub, which supports our colleagues who work in health, social care and the police. Find out more: https://orlo.uk/0H0BP
Letter of Hope
We are delighted to share the relaunch of the Letter of Hope, a resource we have created in partnership with Devon Partnership Trust and by people in Devon with personal experience of suicide.
We have launched two new versions of the letter; Letter for Tomorrow for young people written by young people, and Hope Letter, an Easy Read version for people with learning disabilities. To find out more please click here. Or get in touch with us if you would like to order physical copies.
Join our aDoddle Community Map!
We are partners with the wonderful folk at aDoddle. They are working with you and your community to make it as easy for everyone to find help and support locally as it is to find a hotel or restaurant on Google Maps.
By Mapping UK Charities, Community Projects, Groups & Organisations together we are creating a national resource for use at a local level. It’s free to create a profile on aDoddle, and this can hold all sorts of information, making it great for small groups who can’t afford a website.
Do you have a not-for-profit community mental health offer you’d like us to share?
With thousands of social media followers and newsletter subscribers across Devon, we’d love to help you find your community. Send an email (hello@recoverydevon.co.uk) with “Roundup” in the subject line, adding a photo and a few details about your project – we’ll include it in our next round-up.