TOGETHER FOR YOU

A collaborative approach towards mental wellbeing for everyone

Amanda Jones

Action Mental Health

TOGETHER FOR YOUPROJECT.

• £3 million Big Lottery Fund awarded to 8 partners.

• Delivering mental health and wellbeing services to a range of people across NI

AMH Lead

Aware

Cause

Cruse

Mindwise

NexusPraxis

Rainbow

Relate

AMH MensSana

TOGETHER FOR YOU PARTNERSHIP

AIMS and OUTCOMES

Project aims:• to provide a range of mental health and wellbeing

interventions across N. Ireland, through a co-ordinated approach

• to evaluate the delivery mechanisms, quality assuring them, and providing recommendations for the delivery of future mental health and wellbeing projects in N. Ireland.

Mental Health Commissioning, Policy and Best Practice

Community Legacy

Supporters of Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries(Direct and Indirect)

Building capacity Early Intervention Appropriate and Crisis response Using and building Co-ordinating, sharingand resilience accessible services and postvention the evidence & using good practice

Community Based Mental Health Promotion, Prevention, Early Intervention and Recovery Model

• 8,605 beneficiaries

• Collaborative approach

• Cross referral process

• Shared Learning event

• Website inc members section

Key Achievements

• Evaluation

• Co ordination of services

• Mental health awareness (communications)

Key challenges

Evans Story

• It is very satisfying to feel that you are making a difference in the life of another person, even if it is only a small contribution. Seeing a service user improve and gain more confidence is a great reward. Another benefit of the befriending service is the peer support given to service users and in some cases their families also, as well as Praxis staff and other volunteers.

• Continued improvement in service provision

• Communications – getting the message out

• Legacy

Vision for the future

ANY QUESTIONS?Amanda Jones

Together For You Project Manager

Tel: 028 9032 9150Email: ajones@amh.org.uk