If you haven’t heard already, we were recently awarded £178,887 from The National Lottery Community Fund to support our work with neurodiverse people who have common mental health challenges.
This led to the recruitment of three much-needed additional staff who are now at the final stages of the recruitment process.
This will ensure that we can offer more timely person-centred one-to-one support and group opportunities to those neurodiverse people aged 16 years and older, who live in West
Dunbartonshire.
At the same time, we will develop partnerships with existing communities and service providers to improve the support services that are currently offered in West Dunbartonshire.
To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk
Disability Confident? You bet!
Needless to say, we are delighted with the new staff that have been recruited.
As well as this, our recruitment campaigns in the past few months have led to us filling vacancies with seven new full and part time staff, three of whom have lived experience of mental health challenges.
As members of the Disability Confident Scheme, we are delighted that we can put our plans and values into action.
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New Stepping Stones Men’s Group in Clydebank
Talking of Peer Support Workers, we are keen to announce the recruitment of our two latest recruits, Jim and James, as part-time Peer Support Workers who have been tasked with establishing a Men’s group in the Clydebank area.
We were able to commence this group with the support of West Dunbartonshire Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund.
We developed this idea as we wanted to develop peer support groups that were more in tune with our groups plan, which basically states that we will address the lack of services for harder
to reach population groups, ensuring equity of access.
Around 35% of our referrals come from men, so it is important that we try and develop services for groups that historically have more challenging health inequalities.
We are delighted to report that there has been a really good response to the group and the group have already planned their activities into the new year.
There is space for more, but if you are interested you know where we are!
To find out more and how to contact us, please visit us on www.stepstones.org.uk, or by phoning us on 0141 941 2929.
– John White, Operations Director
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