£1million Mental Health Appeal - St Mungo's Opening doors for homeless people

St Mungo's £1million Mental Health Appeal

£1million is an ambitious target.

Yet we believe that the subject of mental health and homelessness merits such an investment.

Providing crisis support in our projects to prevent suicide attempts and reduce self-harm. We aim to have two crisis-support workers providing intensive support through moments of crisis.
Giving clients help with Advocacy - one new post will support clients to become Advocates in turn supporting other clients with help in meetings, for example with medical or housing or employment professionals.
Training our staff in some simple techniques from CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), and enhance their understanding of mental health generally. We aim to create two new posts for clinical psychologists, who will also work to ensure that our clients get the best possible treatment form statutory agencies.
Expanding the Independent Living Programme to four complex needs projects in Camden and Islington.
Employing a Mental Health Gardening Worker to help develop our Putting Down Roots gardening programme - in which 338 clients are already involved.
Continuing to lobby and campaign on the issues of mental health and homelessness, building a new partnership between those working in the field and the policymakers themselves.
Applying capital improvements to our new projects. We must ensure that we have the right physical space to run activities and improve the mental health of our residents.

What's on during Action Week '09
Happiness matters to our clients: research project
Mental ill health and homelessness: the shocking truth and what St Mungo's is doing about it
Mental health: your questions answered