New help for carers of people with mental health issues
Date: Monday, October 24th 2011
Categories: All Leicestershire
We met with the organisation Rethink Mental Illness recently - to talk to its Leicestershire and Rutland County Carers' Service.
Rethink Mental Illness is the largest national voluntary sector provider of mental health services with about 250 services and over 150 support groups. It directly helps almost 60,000 people every year across England.
We'll be working in close partnership with Rethink to make sure we can offer the best possible service to carers who look after someone with a mental health issue.
Rethink very kindly wrote the article below for our website:
Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT commissions our service to offer support to carers of adults suffering from severe and enduring mental illness.
Our aim is to recognise, respect, as well as support the role of carers, family and friends. We endeavour to make a postive difference to your life through our involvement, by helping you review what is not working with you and looking at various coping strategies. The way forward will be guided by your views about what is needed and what helps you to make your own life choices and to take back control of your life.
We offer support in a range of ways in order that your individual needs can be met. This can vary from offering information and signposting you to other sources of help, to support groups, carer education and training programmes, telephone support, information and activity days, email support or one-to-one contact, either at home or a venue of your choice.
In a survey conducted in April 2011 here is what our carers said about us:
"Rethink are the only people who have helped and listened to us."
"I continue to need the support of this service as my husband's illness is quite difficult to live with and without the help of Rethink I could not cope alone."
"The support I have been given is more than I could wish for."
If you'd like to get in touch with Rethink please call 01530 276 525 and leave a message on the answer phone and they'll call you back. Alternatively, you're very welcome to get in touch with us.
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