Oxfordshire Mind has Wellbeing Hubs in Abingdon, Banbury, Oxford and Witney, which are part of the Oxfordshire Mind Wellbeing Service, split into three localities. Wellbeing Hubs provide peer support groups, a programme of short courses and workshops designed to promote wellbeing and many creative activities and groups. Some Peer support groups also take place in community settings such as cafés.
The Mill is one of our Wellbeing hubs in Oxford City, located on the Cowley Road. It is open 4 days a week and is a safe space for people experiencing a range of mental health issues to come for peer support and optional activity groups in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere.
The Day Hospital/Stepping Into Wellbeing service is also run at the Mill two days per week (via referral only.)
Carers Direct was set up creating a web-based introduction service, whereby people seeking care could confidently identify and approach skilled and compassionate care assistants, while bringing benefits to both. Their site introduces carers for Live-In Care, Hourly Care and Over Night Care.
The patient services team are here to answer queries and concerns related to Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group. Patient Services provide confidential, on-the-spot advice and support, helping you to sort out any concerns you may have about the care they provide and guiding you through the different services available from the NHS.
Patient Services aim to:
Resolve concerns and sort out problems on your behalf
Listen to your concerns, suggestions and queries
Advise and support patients, their families and carers
Inform about local NHS services and how to access them
Patient Services acts independently when handling patient and family concerns, liaising with staff, managers and relevant organisations to negotiate immediate or prompt solutions.
If you are homeless, you still have a right to register with a doctor – you can use a ‘care-of address’, such as a friend or a day centre. You may only be offered a temporary three-month registration.
Somewhere Safe to Stay Oxford provides support and short term accommodation to those who are at risk of homelessness or who are new to rough sleeping. The building of Floyds Row will also accommodate a multi-agency hub where individuals who are experiencing homelessness can come and engage positively with other agencies such as Turning Point and Crisis to learn new skills, recover from addition, find accommodation etc. The St Mungo’s Outreach Team will also be based within the building too. When fully operational, there will be 40 bed spaces for those at risk or homelessness, or finding themselves new to rough sleeping. They also offer an additional 16 Winter Shelter Spaces from October – March, as well as opening up more spaces when the Met Office forecasts that the overnight temperature will drop to zero or below the council activates its severe weather emergency protocol (SWEP).
We work with schools, colleges, CAMHS, local authorities, and third sector partners including Oxfordshire Youth to improve services for children and young people and campaign for positive change. Our services support children and young people to increase their knowledge and coping skills including innovative courses like Boxing and Wellbeing. We are offering new provision supporting 18 to 25 year olds, and will also be launching new work building mentally healthy universities with Oxford Brookes and National Mind.
abandofbrothers (ABOB) works with young men involved in the criminal justice system. We provide them with the support they need to make the transition to an adulthood free of crime and filled with a sense of belonging, connection and purpose.
Our Quest Programme brings together young men and adult role models through an intensive contemporary rites-of-passage experience and an accredited mentoring programme.
Our focus is to give these young men experiences that challenge them and support their growth, and to provide them with a lasting community that supports them.
The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board (OSCB) aims to keep children in Oxfordshire as safe as possible by making sure everyone understands their roles and responsibilities regarding safeguarding through training, learning and local resources. It is everybody’s responsibility to keep children and young people safe. If you’re concerned that a child is being abused or neglected, you should report it so that the child can be protected.
If you think a child is in immediate danger, call the police on 999.
If you have a concern about a child, please call MASH on 0345 050 7666.
The New Beginnings Team provides practical and emotional support to people who experienced sexual exploitation while aged under 18. Our clients often struggle with a number of difficulties as a result of this abuse, and find it very difficult to move on with their lives. We support people around practical issues such as information and accessing appropriate support, benefits, housing, advocacy, and if needed support around police investigations and court cases. We also offer emotional support and guidance, as well as support around raising self esteem and feeling empowered and in control of own life and choices.
CAMHS aims to make sure than no one goes without the support they need. In Oxfordshire they provide a wide range of mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and community services.
CAMHS offers two pathways for providing mental health services for children and adolescents.
The CAMHS – Getting Help pathway provides an early intervention which is time limited. This is the first level of help they offer for children and young people with emotional or mental health difficulties. You would normally work with one main mental health worker who will often have a background in nursing, social work, or occupational therapy. CAMHS – Getting Help offers children and young people opportunities to learn new skills to support them in managing emotional or mental health difficulties and also supports parents and carers.
The CAMHS – Getting More Help pathway works with children and young people who may need help over a longer period of time and/or who need more professionals to be involved. This could be because of something significant which has happened in their life, or just because more help is needed. It is different for everyone, and they try to treat everyone as an individual. They also support parents and carers too.
CAMHS – Getting More Help will treat children or young people in an emergency if they need help for a serious mental illness, like if they are feeling very low and have been thinking about harming themselves.
They offer evidence-based treatment, which means that the treatment has been tested to make sure that it works. You might be seen individually, with a family member or in a group with other young people who have similar difficulties: they will ask you what you prefer.
