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* Our services › Together's Service-user Involvement Directorate › Find a service-user involvement project › SUNRISE - Services Users Network Representation in South Essex
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* SUNRISE - Services Users Network Representation in South Essex
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* An involvement group for people using mental health services
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SUNRISE - Services Users Network Representation in South Essex

3 Warrior Square
Southend on Sea
Essex SS1 2JN

Tel (01702) 612 070
Mob 07818 421 807 (Greg Howes)

Project Manager Steve Kent
Email steve-kent@together-org.uk

Deputy Project Manager Greg Howes
Email greg-howes@together-uk.org

Our partners running the service South Essex Primary Care Trust and the South Essex Partnership Trust

Approach and outlook
The aim of the service is to establish and strengthen a mental health service-users’ network in South Essex. It is a social inclusion project.

Anyone who wants to join the network can self-refer. The network enables people to share their experiences of using local mental health services with their peers, service managers and commissioners, and to present a collective perspective on a range of issues.

History
Together acquired the SUNRISE contract in January 2005.

Location
Our work covers the South Essex area, which includes Southend, Tilbury, Grays, Rayleigh, Basildon, Brentwood, Wickford and Thurrock. We currently have an office in Southend. We are looking to centralise, by relocating in Basildon and closing the Southend office.

Service-user profile
Adults who use mental health services can attend. We have approximately 300 individuals on our database. There is no time restriction on an individual’s activity within the network.

Staff and facilities
A Project Co-ordinator manages the Development Workers, and supports and develops systems and structures that strengthen service-user involvement within the South Essex Partnership Trust. The Development Workers support and develop the service-user network in specific Primary Care Trusts as well as contributing to the whole of service-user involvement in South Essex.

Activities and support on offer
Mental health service-user forums are held in each Primary Care Trust area in the South Essex area. They cover Southend, Rayleigh, Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock. There is also a Women’s Forum held in Basildon. The forums are held bi-monthly.

Training
The project offers a training programme to develop leadership within the local service-user involvement movement. Any other training relevant to developing an individual’s skills, knowledge and confidence around service-user involvement and representation can be supported by the project.

Links with useful organisations
SUNRISE has strong links with other mental health voluntary-sector organisations. It is also developing work with the Vocational Employment Officer so that short-term administration contracts can be offered.

Opening hours
Office hours are part time.

More information
For more information, contact the service direct. You can also look up the project's own website

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