with experience of mental illness fairly, positively and with respect. Every year the charity helps hundreds of islanders by providing family/carer and peer support, residential accommodation and a growing number of services for children and young people. We provide support so that people can take control of their mental health and live full lives.
We continue to attach a very high priority in challenging stigma, increasing understanding and raising awareness about mental health. We do this so that islanders will feel more able to talk about their own mental health and seek support earlier than they might have done as we believe that early interventions – ‘nipping things in the bud’ – is a good maxim to follow in relation to promoting prevention.
Our current focus is to promote these campaigns in workplaces, schools and colleges and our Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training and awareness raising programmes are now very well established and in high demand.
Mind Jersey provides a well-established and highly regarded Family and Carers service. Carers are given practical and emotional support, including representation in multi-disciplinary meetings, and have access to our educational programmes. We operate
an active carers’ forum that represents the voice of mental health carers and are an active member of the Carers’ Partnership group; we helped drive the development of the Carers’ strategy and we continue to campaign strongly for the introduction of a local Carers’ Law.
Recognising a growing need within the community we have recently extended this service to provide support to those bereaved following suicide. This is a very sensitive area and we have invested in specialist training in the UK to ensure that we can respond in an appropriate manner when supporting families and friends who have experienced loss to suicide.
Mind Jersey is proud of its ‘Youthful Minds’ group which includes upwards of 30 young people, aged between 11 and 25 years, many of whom have living experience. This group has advised us about how we might reach their contemporaries and created a campaign with age appropriate and accessible messages and have designed a range of training packages. They work with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to develop and review the services they provide.
The group also commissioned a drama production that has toured every local
secondary school. Together they have pioneered the concept of real youth participation and we believe that this is a model of effective service user involvement that is worthy of replication in other services.
We have introduced a Peer Support service which continues to make a significant impact for those adults receiving and giving support. It enables people to help each other on the basis of shared experiences, empathy and mutual agreement about what might be helpful and purposeful – be it practical, social or emotional in nature.
Support is recovery focused and non- directive and is offered by a small team of fifteen trained volunteers who are all living well with a mental health condition. Peers who have accessed the service have reported a significant improvement in their overall mental health and wellbeing as they exit the service. The volunteers have reported that supporting peers on their recovery journey has resulted in improvements in their own mental health and wellbeing as well.
For further information about Mind Jersey, including how to access the range of training that we offer, please visit our website:
www.mindjersey.org or check us out on Facebook.
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