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?
Wow. Where has the year gone! We can’t believe we are now creating the newsletter for September!
It’s been a cooler summer this year hasn’t it. I guess it can’t always be like the summer of 2022!! We hope you have all had a great summer though and have kept well!
And yes, September is Mental Heath Awareness month! So a great time to get in touch with people who might not be feeling too good – take them out for a nice coffee or go for a nice walk. And if anyone wants to talk then don’t be afraid of contacting us or any of the vital wellbeing services in the community. We are always here to help.
Community Development Fund Winners
We’d very much like to wish the community development fund winners well who at the time of writing should be starting to get into their vital wellbeing related projects in the community. We look forward to receiving updates in due course.
Culture of Care Project
Marie, one of a board members of Recovery Devon, can give us an exciting update on the Community Care Project she is working on. Note: for an overview of the project, see the pictures below Marie’s update.
“We have been looking at progressing this work and insuring that those Expert’s by experience are valued and supported, as their role in this is crucial and central to this work. 4 wards are active in this work and Recovery Devon with Together (The involvement and engagement part of Devon Partnership Trust) are working closely together to support and enable full involvement and co-production in all aspects of this, we are at the beginning of what is and exciting programme. This is an opportunity for those on the ward to look at ways to improve ward culture there are the 12 standards which are: 1) Lived Experience, 2) Safety, 3) Relationships, 4) Staff support, 5) Equality, 6) Avoiding harm, 7) Needs led, 8) Choice, 9) Environment, 10) Things to do, 11) Therapeutic support, 12) Transparency. And that all care is trauma informed, autism informed and culturally competent. We will begin to look at ideas from those on the wards at the moment what they would like to look at within those standards and how things can be improved. This is a two year programme so there is potential to make a variety of changes”.
Keep up the great work Marie!
Here are some useful visuals giving a background to the Culture of Care Programme:
The voice of lived and living experience is central to this work, If you are or have recently been an inpatient and would like to help with this work, Please contact Marie on marie.ash@nhs.net to get involved.
What’s happening in the community in September
Mid Devon & East Devon
NOMINATIONS CLOSING SOON ON 8TH SEPT. To find out more and nominate someone today click here: https://activedevon.org/volunteer-awards/
The next section is for Together, Mid Devon.
Together offer vital services to assist people in recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. All activities listed here are open to the general public.
For more information and points of contact, please go to their website here https://www.edp.org.uk/together/
Further activities listed here:
Andy’s Man Club
At ANDYSMANCLUB, we want to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health and create a judgment-free, confidential space where men can be open about the storms in their lives. We aim to achieve this through weekly, free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups for men aged over 18.
Several locations across Mid Devon, East Devon and South Devon.
Search here for your nearest group and for more information.
https://andysmanclub.co.uk/find-your-nearest-group
North Devon – What’s happening in the community
Together team:
Please download the below document to get an overview of all the exciting events and activities we regularly put on in the North Devon area.
South Devon – What’s happening in the community
Any questions please E-mail karateinthecommunity@gmail.com
Andy’s Man’s Club locations in South Devon
https://andysmanclub.co.uk/find-your-nearest-group
Plymouth Mental Health Reg
Plymouth Mental Health Recovery and Empowerment Group (Plymouth REG) is on a mission to inspire, empower and educate anyone in Plymouth who wants to improve their wellbeing and also anyone who has an interest in learning about mental health.
Below are screenshots of their listed courses on their website.
For more details and to book a place please visit their website:
West Devon
Please visit Make A Difference – Mental Health Wellbeing Hub on facebook to view more exciting activities.
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.