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Neurodiversity Celebration Week – Neurodiversity at Together and in our services
Posted on 16, March, 2023
Neurodiversity Celebration Week runs from 13 March – 19 March 2023 and is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. At Together we looked to mark the by looking at neurodiversity at Together and in our services to consider people’s lived experience and how our staff work alongside neurodivergent people. We […]
Together staff explain ways they provide mental health support to women in criminal justice settings for International Women’s Day
Posted on 10, March, 2023
Within the Criminal Justice Services at Together for Mental Wellbeing we have a number of practitioners who provide specialist and tailored support to women within the Criminal Justice System. Here are what a few of those practitioners say about the work they do… Carmel Pragnell, Liaison and Diversion Practitioner – Women’s Specialist As a Liaison […]
LGBT+ History Month 2023 – Behind the Lens – A blog by Together Head of Operations and Development Matina Marougka
Posted on 28, February, 2023
I watched Tár few days ago. To my surprise, the movie started with what would have otherwise been the closing credits. I found this to be a great initiative to help the audience to actually spend time looking at how many people and groups have actually contributed to the movie. So that showed it wasn’t […]
LGBT+ History Month 2023: Behind the Lens
Posted on 02, February, 2023
February is LGBT+ History Month and we will be celebrating that at Together with guidance from our LGBTQ+ Inclusion Group and asking staff, volunteers and people who use our services about stories they’d like to share. The theme set by the organisers is #BehindTheLens and celebrates LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to cinema and film from behind […]
Blog from Community Link Worker Paul Richardson on contributing to a Member Advisory Group on supporting women in criminal justice settings
Posted on 13, December, 2022
As well as doing their day to day jobs working alongside people who use our services to provide support to those experiencing mental distress, our staff at Together also at times share their knowledge and experience with others in the mental health sector. One of those situations came about when Community Link Worker, Paul Richardson […]
Service Manager Melanie Murphy on ways the service supports people with the cost of living crisis
Posted on 08, December, 2022
As the cost of living crisis continues across the country our staff in Together services work in different ways to support the people who use our services. That can be in terms of the mental health impact of worries around finance or in more practical ways such as linking to services that can advise on […]
Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: Interview with Senior Statutory Advocate at Rochdale Advocacy Together Hub, Alex Clarke
Posted on 11, November, 2022
Advocacy Awareness Week runs from 7 to 11 November and the theme for this year is how advocates support people in relation to their human rights. Together has a range of advocacy services working with people in the community or in secure settings and on a variety of forms of advocacy. Alex Clarke is Senior […]
Advocacy Awareness Week 2022: Interview with Michele Reynolds who uses Rochdale Advocacy Together Hub
Posted on 09, November, 2022
Advocacy Awareness Week runs from 7 to 11 November and the theme for this year is how advocates support people in relation to their human rights. Together has a range of advocacy services working with people in the community or in secure settings and on a variety of forms of advocacy. For the week we […]
Lawn Court Accommodation Service take camping trip with poem written on the experience
Posted on 31, October, 2022
Together’s Lawn Court Accommodation Service is based Bexhill-on-Sea and provides 24 hour residential support to the people that live at the property. The residents at Lawn Court have their own Sports Club and another activity they undertake is camping trips in the summer. Service Manager Tony Lee-Peters describes their latest camping trip in the summer […]
A poem for Black History Month by Together Ravenhill Way Accommodation Service user Llatoya Jackson
Posted on 19, October, 2022
Black History Month runs through October and the theme for 2022 is Time for Change: Action Not Words. Full details can be found at https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/black-history-month-2022/. Llatoya Jackson is a resident at our Ravenhill Way Accommodation Service in Luton and wrote this poem, which we thought would be fitting to put out during the month, celebrating her […]