Response provides home support to people with complex health needs such as mental and physical illness, learning disabilities or dementia. Staff can support individuals with physical tasks such as washing and getting dressed as well as social/practical tasks like collecting benefits or shopping.
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At Oxfordshire Recovery College they offer courses and workshops about mental health and wellbeing. Their courses are available either online or in person at venues across Oxfordshire. Their subjects include Understanding Anxiety and Depression, Sleep and Wellbeing and Gender, Sexuality and Mental Health. Their key value is coproduction – all their courses are designed and delivered by people who have their own lived experience of managing their mental health, working alongside people with trained experience. Most of their courses are aimed at 18s and over, but they have a course designed specifically for 16 to 25s – Navigating Your Way Through Mental Health Services.
Restore has six Recovery Groups across Oxfordshire. The Recovery Groups offer a therapeutic work environment that is supportive, creative, purposeful and fun. They offer opportunities to socialise and learn new skills in horticulture, printing, cooking, marketing, woodwork and other crafts. Group members decide together what activities they will do. Referrals can be made by GP, CMHT, other health care professionals, family or the individuals themselves.
The six Recovery Groups are:
- Beehive Recovery Group, Manzil Way, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1YH
- Elder Stubbs Recovery Group, Elder Stubbs Allotments, Rymers Lane, Oxford, OX4 3LB
- South Oxon Recovery Group, Fleet Meadow, Sandringham Road, Didcot, OX11 FYA
- North Oxon Recovery Group, The Warehouse, 28 Calthorpe Street, Banbury, OX16 5EX
- Garden Cafe Recovery Group, Manzil Way, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1YH
- Littlemore Recovery Group, Restore shop and cafe, Littlemore Mental Health Centre, Oxford, OX4 4XN
Across the county, Restore offer one-to-one coaching sessions to support people to gain – and retain – employment, start volunteering, go on a training course or re-enter education. Within this they can offer shorter or longer-term involvement, depending on individual need. This service is also available within their Recovery Groups. Additionally, Restore have Employment Advisors who are embedded in Adult Mental Health Teams and they operate an advice and information service to the OMHP in-patient wards on a weekly basis called the Opportunities Project.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Their services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and in people’s homes. They focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Restore is an Oxfordshire-based mental health charity that provides Recovery projects together with Root and Branch and Bridewell Organic Gardens which helps people take control of their recovery, develop skills and lead meaningful lives.
Restore supports people with mental ill health through Therapeutic Activity and Employment Coaching. It also offers Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training to individuals and businesses, as well as short courses through The Recovery College.
The Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership is an award winning partnership that formally brings together six mental health organisations from the NHS and the charity sector: Oxford health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxfordshire Mind, Response, Connection Floating Support, Elmore Community Services and Restore to make it easier for people with mental health problems to get the best possible support where and when they need it. Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership has won the Excellence for Mental Health Care category in the 2019 NHS Parliamentary Awards. This award was announced on 10th July 2019 and is in recognition of the partnerships pioneering approach to mental health care.
Artscape facilitates creative projects with inpatients at the Oxford Hospitals as well as other people who are being treated in the community. The project aims to improve the mental well-being of service users, carers and staff; contribute to the social inclusion and rehabilitation of service users; improve the trust environments and develop the public understanding of mental health issues.
The Gynecological Counselling service provides short-term counselling for women who have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, either by miscarriage or termination.
The Eating Disorders Service provides care for adults with Anorexia, Bulimia or atypical eating disorders. Care includes psychological and medical treatment, physical monitoring and dietary advice. Also provides inpatient services.