West Cumbria Mental Health Partnership
West Cumbria Mental Health Partnership
Millom Safe Space
Safe Space Millom provides a weekly mental health drop in/support service with a full range of targeted mental health and wellbeing opportunities. The face to face sessions are Monday’s weekly from 10.30am-3.30pm and additional support is available to Millom/Copeland residents during the week either in person or over the phone from our other venues in Barrow in Furness and Ulverston. Safe Space Millom is delivered in the centrally located, fully equipped Tin Chapel building on Mainsgate Road and supports anyone in the local area aged 18+.
The foundations of our support model are peer support and social inclusion and recognising that one size doesn’t fit all. We offer a range of support options including:
- Peer Support Sessions and a Peer Support Development Programme empowering lived experience involvement.
- Advice and Information, a range of information leaflets, proactive signposting to other appropriate support
- 1:1 emotional and practical support and goal setting using Recovery Star Outcome Measurement Tool
- Cooking & a shared Lunch
- Volunteering and skills building opportunities
- Games/quizzes,/arts & crafts/social events, and a range of activities decided by regular consultation with attendees
- Therapeutic courses including Anxiety Management, Understanding Depression etc.
- Wellbeing Walks (in partnership with Mental Health North West)
- Access to other health and wellbeing groups- we encourage their attendance at our sessions
- Access to other Mind in Furness services including Eco therapy, counselling, Guided Self Help
Getting Involved
We deliver our services weekly on a Monday at The Tin Chapel on Mainsgate Road Millom (The Pensioners Association)
This service is provided by:
Mind in Furness
Our vision is to work proactively and in partnership with statutory and other organisations and individuals: to promote mental health and to improve the quality of life for people suffering from, or with the potential to suffer from, mental distress by providing and encouraging user-led activities and services and to increase awareness of those issues through education and a strong, positive presence in the local community.
West Cumbria Mental Health Partnership
Connecting people in West Cumbria with mental health support services in the community.
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Partnership Administration & Funding
The West Cumbria Mental Health Partnership is led by Groundwork NE & Cumbria and is funded with a grant received from the Cumbria Community Foundation through the Transforming West Cumbria Programme funded by Sellafield Ltd.
